Re: Creative Gigaworks S750





Agent24 and Momaka, I'll follow both of your suggestions as soon as possible, this will probably be during this week. For now I do have some more photos (in [I]CAM00190[/I] you can see how we managed to get the slightly bigger capacitors in there. It's not perfect but then again, neither was Creative's work), but looking at it I realize I should definitely take one of the underside (you mean the part of the pcb that is not covered in components I suppose).

When I got more I'll make a new post in this thr...

Re: Creative Gigaworks S750



I got my multimeter right here. I think I understand how to check for a short (measure resistance in Ohms, if it shows some low number there is a short?), is that also how you check for them being open? Good thing I saved them

I'll follow the power supply tutorial in the coming week (it's quite a long read I believe).

Thanks for your response and I'll keep you posted....

Re: Creative Gigaworks S750

Another picture for your entertainment. The shrink wrapped capacitor (to the left of the blue one) is a bit loose to the touch....

Re: X-fi Xtreme Music sub out not playing



Most PC sound cards use single mini-jack outputs instead of RCA*2 you'll find on amplifiers. To switch the subwoofer and center channel (which are both output to an output that is marked with an orange color, as opposed to the front speakers, which are marked with the color green) you will have to find that [B]option in the driver software[/B]. Creative has pretty good control panel options on their X-Fi and later drivers. Unfortunately the drivers they post on their website usually have features cut out compared to the version...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hey guys,

I just registered on this forum after reading the FAQs for a while because I aim to fix my Creative Gigaworks S750. I just replaced four of the caps, but it still suffers from the blinking lights problem. You can read more about this in this thread: [url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpost.php?p=363259&postcount=34[/url]

I don't know if this is the right place to draw attention to this thread, but I might as well since it's the reason I had to register. I wish all of you the best of...

Re: Creative Gigaworks S750



Hey BadCaps.net Forum. I'm suffering from the same sort of problem with the Creative Gigaworks S750. One morning when I woke up and wanted to listen to some jazz I noticed that my system wouldn't turn on. The power light on the back of the unit was [B]blinking[/B] and the control pod didn't emit any light at all.
When I brought the subwoofer to some friends for advice on this problem, we plugged it in and flipped the power switch. We heard some popping noises and then the [B]fuse was blown[/B]. We proceeded to carefully open up the...