Hi all,
I am writing as I believe I have exhausted any possibility of getting a (useful) answer from Asus customer service.
My problem is that I cannot manage to get any digital sound (i.e. other than stereo) out of the coaxial connexion of my ASUS M3N HDMI motherboard. I will probably end up buying a soundcard, but thought I would give it another try.
More precisely: I have built a HTPC – TV (Sony Bravia) is connected to the PC through HDMI, and for sound through coaxial directly to a Sony home cinema (DAV-DZ860). The Home cinema system does not detect any digital sound, i.e. sound comes as stereo only from motherboard, even when reading DVDs. Same happens when I use the RealtekHD Audio Manager - Audio I/O tab > selecting 6ch speaker: when testing sound, only front left and right speakers work (i.e. no sound from rear speakers, from central speaker and subwofer). Can't test HDMI as my TV will convert any digital signal into stereo and my home cinema does not have hdmi in... Also, the SPDIF volume control in the windows sound mixer is greyed out.
I know others have had similar problems, but none of the solutions have worked for me.
What I have done so far: trying reinstalling windows xp / trying uninstalling all drivers (Nvidia and Realtek) and then reinstalling the newest drivers one by one after suppression in registry (like described in this thread http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-245488_10_0.html / fiddling with
enabling-disabling HDMI audio in Bios.
I have tried both the drivers on the ASUS
Support site and those on the realtek/Nvidia sites / reinstalling Directx / uninstalling Windows UAA (hotfix KB888111 and its updated version by Microsoft – does not work with SP3).
My system:
OS: Windows XP Professional (32bit) with all latest updates
M/B: M3N-H HDMI
CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 500 3700 Mhz
RAM: Kingston DDR2 PC8500 2 Gb
No additional PCI card
BIOS: Revision 1902
GEFORCE 8300 driver version 182.50
Realtek HD Audio driver version 5.10.0.5919
Many thanks in advance!
Feelkarma
I am writing as I believe I have exhausted any possibility of getting a (useful) answer from Asus customer service.
My problem is that I cannot manage to get any digital sound (i.e. other than stereo) out of the coaxial connexion of my ASUS M3N HDMI motherboard. I will probably end up buying a soundcard, but thought I would give it another try.
More precisely: I have built a HTPC – TV (Sony Bravia) is connected to the PC through HDMI, and for sound through coaxial directly to a Sony home cinema (DAV-DZ860). The Home cinema system does not detect any digital sound, i.e. sound comes as stereo only from motherboard, even when reading DVDs. Same happens when I use the RealtekHD Audio Manager - Audio I/O tab > selecting 6ch speaker: when testing sound, only front left and right speakers work (i.e. no sound from rear speakers, from central speaker and subwofer). Can't test HDMI as my TV will convert any digital signal into stereo and my home cinema does not have hdmi in... Also, the SPDIF volume control in the windows sound mixer is greyed out.
I know others have had similar problems, but none of the solutions have worked for me.
What I have done so far: trying reinstalling windows xp / trying uninstalling all drivers (Nvidia and Realtek) and then reinstalling the newest drivers one by one after suppression in registry (like described in this thread http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-245488_10_0.html / fiddling with
enabling-disabling HDMI audio in Bios.
I have tried both the drivers on the ASUS
Support site and those on the realtek/Nvidia sites / reinstalling Directx / uninstalling Windows UAA (hotfix KB888111 and its updated version by Microsoft – does not work with SP3).
My system:
OS: Windows XP Professional (32bit) with all latest updates
M/B: M3N-H HDMI
CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 500 3700 Mhz
RAM: Kingston DDR2 PC8500 2 Gb
No additional PCI card
BIOS: Revision 1902
GEFORCE 8300 driver version 182.50
Realtek HD Audio driver version 5.10.0.5919
Many thanks in advance!
Feelkarma