Anyone has been able to use Bose Companion 5 speakers on a PC using Vista OS ? they work fine on XP, but I can't get a sound to come out on a Vista PC, even though it says everything is ready for use. Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah I would agree check ur soundcard driver if vista supports it, or recongize's it.. Secondly, for bose companion 5 u'll need a atleast a 24bit audio sound card(e.g-creative X fatility) to elevate the sound of the bose, apart from that sound on board just won't any good...
Thanks Stephen. It seems to say the drivers are good. Shane, can you please clarify: The Bose manuel says that because it uses a USB port, it bypasses the sound card.....if so, how would I be able to benefit from an X fatility ?
Ahh that makes a difference. If the computer recognizes it, try checking the audio properties to see what it is trying to output the sound to. If you have a sound card in your computer, it may be trying to output to that only instead of the USB Bose system.
Reading about Vista when it first came out, it seems this is a very common issue, many drivers claim to be supported and aren't. Having no sound seems to be the most common. Either Vista will have to fix the problem with an update, or the consumer will have to wait for the individual peripheral companies to start releasing new software versions for Vista... But really what's in it for them?