Creative Sound Blaster X4

[OfficerTux]

If anyone is still in the market for the Sound Blaster X4, I just bought one directly from Creative as B-Stock for 90€ (MSRP is 140€). The unit arrived in mint condition, I think only the package had been opened once. It comes with a 1 year warranty and works fine so far.

They still have more in stock:

Sound Blaster X4 (B-Stock)

Kaufen Sie zu günstigen Preisen im Creative Labs-Online-Store (Deutschland). Sparen Sie bei ZEN-MP3-Playern, Lautsprechern, Sound Blaster-Soundkarten, überholten Produkten und anderen Angeboten.

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[sleightflight]

I purchased the X4 at a really good sale price to replace my aging xfi titanium fatality sound card, my old card is working fine but it is directly underneath my gpu, so I was concerned about airflow to the gpu.
Unfortunately I can't get any surround sound via toslink to my pioneer 5.1 surround sound system. If I set in windows sound output as creative X4 or optical X4 the sound test doesn't activate all the speakers.
In the creative software I can get all the speakers to work on the sound test in the optical output.
Creative are telling me that it's a setting thing.