Lordy, what a mess.
The courier guy arrived this morning with the new 5/1 surround speakers for my computer.
The only problem was..... I don't have a decent sound card.
So it was off to the shop and purchase a Soundblaster Live 24. Not a bad price but it took me 2 freaking hours of tearing the whole computer corner of the family room apart and restringing wire all over the place. I found dustbunnies as big as basketballs in a couple of the corners. (note to self... get someone to clean under the desk more often!) The computer was pretty clean... I vacuumed it out back in October when I put a second hard drive and a DVD burner in.
Then the wireless router started acting up and didn't want to talk to the modem.
Since the kids busted their laptop with the wireless card and haven't got the PC working yet that I got them a wireless internet card for I yanked the &&$%# thing out and now am back to running straight DSL modem. I think I wrecked my back trying to get the carton of printer paper out from behind the filing cabinet and I know I bashed my head on the desk chasing power cords "through and behind and under".
Next time I'll have to pay my teenage son to do the dirty work for me.
Got good sound now!
I wish someone would come out with a wireless thing (like those wireless headphones) that you could run your computer sound output directly to a home stereo without wires though. That'd make life somewhat simpler.