I have an Systemax 

Ascent tower with which I cannot get the speakers to operate.

I have two speakers and a sub-woofer.

The subwoofer has a gray output and a purple input and a gray cord
with an rca jack at each end.

The speakers have three cords...1 double that ends in a single gray
rca cord,1 single that ends with a purple rca cord and one single that
ends with a green rca cord.

The hard drive has 3 upper inputs.One green,one blue and one pink.

And five lower inputs (for gaming maybe?).One is black,one is light
green,one is pink,one is blue and one is yellow.

How do I configure them?I have tried various hook-ups to no
avail.(They worked fine before I unplugged them for moving but I
cannot remember how they were hooked up.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

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Request for Question Clarification by wonko-ga on 26 Jun 2003 12:25 PDT

Do you know what brand and model of speakers they are?  Do you know
what type of sound card you have?  Based on your description, I think
you have Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.  I have a reasonable
guess, although I am a little confused by your description of the
speaker cords.  If it works, let me know so that I can claim credit
for the answer.

Connect the purple input of the subwoofer to the yellow input using
the gray cord.

Connect the dual cord to the gray output of the subwoofer and to each
speaker.

Connect one of the speakers to the light green input and connect the
other speaker to the blue input.

You should, of course, have the power turned off to everything when
you make these connections.

Please let me know what kind of results you get.  Also make sure that
the volume in the control panel is not muted or turned all the way
down.

Wonko

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Clarification of Question by higrob1-ga on 26 Jun 2003 13:18 PDT

I hooked the speakers up per your specifications but unfortunately
they still do not work.

As per your questions,I have Soundblaster Live and the subwoofer has
what appears to be a "PA" logo on it (with a microphone in the logo?)

Thank you for your help so far.Anything else that maybe I should
try?(Nothing I've checked as far as speakers and sound is muted.

                                                   R.Higgins

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Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 27 Jun 2003 11:28 PDT

I assume you are a novice here, so perhaps you could go to My
Computer, right-click, left click on Properties, then look at the
device manager tab. Left clicking on the cross on the left of "Sound,
video and game..." will expand the list of driver devices in place. If
"Creative..." is shown, or "Soundblaster..." (I am not familiar with
these driver programs, I admit), then your Soundblaster card is used.
If something else is listed, then the triple port bank would be used,
assuming that is the onboard sound. If you see yellow exclamation
points on one or more device name, you will have to reinstall or
update the driver for that. If you know how to get into the BIOS at
startup, you may want to disable the onboard sound.

It sounds like you have integrated audio on your motherboard and also
a sound card (your SoundBlaster Live) hence the two different sets of
ports.  You need to figure out which one is being used.  The method
for doing that depends on your OS (2000, 98, XP, ??).  If its the
integrated you use the upper ports but I am fairly confident you were
probably using the SoundBlaster so its the lower ports (ie ignore the
"upper" ones near the USB, Keyboard, Mouse, Parallel, etc. ports)  I
am having trouble following the description you have for the cables,
speakers and subwoofer.  It would be really helpful if you could give
clearer details about the ports and cables. (For example -- The left
speaker has one gray port (female), the righ speaker has one attached
cable that ends with a gray end (male) and one green port (female) and
the subwoofer has one gray port (female).  There are three cables one
has two green ends (male), one has two gray ends (male) and one is a
Y-cable with 1 gray end (male) going to two purple ends (male). --
This is just an example I'm not sure what you have ^_^)  A general
rule of thumb when connecting speakers though is to match the colors
(remembering to ignore the upper ports).  One other thing, do you see
any model number on the speakers or subwoofer (on a non-descript label
perhaps)?