New headphones won't work

[Thawk]

I just picked up some TRITTON AX360 Digital Audio Gaming Headphones. The only way I can get them to work is to unplug my speakers from my sound card and plug the headphones in. I tried to use the Coaxial S/PDIF Out port and the Optical S/PDIF Out port on the motherboard but they did not work. The support given with the headphones is pretty lame so I thought I would post here to see if any of you have had this problem or know what this newb needs to do. I read the motherboard manual front to back and found little to nothing. Only thing about sound is the soundcard that it comes with that I did not use. Thanks!!!

Here is my system:
ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
Leadtek WinFast PX8800 GTS TDH GeForce 8800GTS 640MB
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM
Running Windows XP Pro

 

[Markbnj]

You might need to enable those optical ports. Try looking in the mixer applet for the digital output and see if it is muted.

 

[Thawk]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
You might need to enable those optical ports. Try looking in the mixer applet for the digital output and see if it is muted.

Do you know what I should be looking for? I don't see anything that refers to the two ports in the mixer. Now the mixer that is popping up is the Creative mixer, do I need to pull up something else?

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Thawk

Originally posted by: Markbnj
You might need to enable those optical ports. Try looking in the mixer applet for the digital output and see if it is muted.

Do you know what I should be looking for? I don't see anything that refers to the two ports in the mixer. Now the mixer that is popping up is the Creative mixer, do I need to pull up something else?

If I recall correctly the Creative mixer has "basic" and "advanced" views. You might not see the digital ports in the basic view, which is the default I think.