Hi all,
I've been banging my head against the wall on this. I have the aforementioned motherboard, and the manual says it supports 5.1 (actually 7.1) surround via the onboard HDMI. However, while the video works, I cannot get the sound to go correctly from my PC to my receiver via HDMI.
The problem seems to be that the VIA HDMI audio driver is either not installed, or overwritten by the generic Microsoft one, which is only 2-channel instead of 5.1
I've tried updating the driver (which is a VIA chipset, *not* realtek), both from GIGABYTE and directly from VIA. I've tried uninstalling the Microsoft HDMI audio driver, but it's immediately reinstalled when I reboot or reinstall the VIA drivers. I've tried using the SPDIF device for playback. Note that I am NOT using SPDIF, I don't even have the SPDIF jumpers hooked in, but the VDeck Audio Driver program lists it as "SPDIF HDMI" so I thought it was worth a go.
Does *anyone* have any experience with this problem? Googling it just brings up obvious solutions (yes, I'm sure I've selected HDMI as my default) or irrelevant ones (my board does not use a Realtek driver/chipset). It's really driving me crazy, and I'm about to the point of just returning all the parts and never buying GIGABYTE hardware again.
I've been banging my head against the wall on this. I have the aforementioned motherboard, and the manual says it supports 5.1 (actually 7.1) surround via the onboard HDMI. However, while the video works, I cannot get the sound to go correctly from my PC to my receiver via HDMI.
The problem seems to be that the VIA HDMI audio driver is either not installed, or overwritten by the generic Microsoft one, which is only 2-channel instead of 5.1
I've tried updating the driver (which is a VIA chipset, *not* realtek), both from GIGABYTE and directly from VIA. I've tried uninstalling the Microsoft HDMI audio driver, but it's immediately reinstalled when I reboot or reinstall the VIA drivers. I've tried using the SPDIF device for playback. Note that I am NOT using SPDIF, I don't even have the SPDIF jumpers hooked in, but the VDeck Audio Driver program lists it as "SPDIF HDMI" so I thought it was worth a go.
Does *anyone* have any experience with this problem? Googling it just brings up obvious solutions (yes, I'm sure I've selected HDMI as my default) or irrelevant ones (my board does not use a Realtek driver/chipset). It's really driving me crazy, and I'm about to the point of just returning all the parts and never buying GIGABYTE hardware again.
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