no sound from spdif out (optical) from gigabyte P67A-UD3R

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golfpunk111

94 posts

Master Geek

#75226 15-Jan-2011 01:38

I have just upgraded my computer and receiver but can't seem to get any sound out of it through my receiver (pioneer 1019ah) have turned kurolink off and chnaged the dvr input to hdmi one and the audio to optical 2, but i get nothing, the green bar on the sound manager in the control panel on my computer moves up and down but i can't manage to get any sound out.

have got my xbox 360 and sky to work perfect, but my computer is really starting to give me a headache...

any suggestions would be really appreciated!

andrewcnz

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

#427348 15-Jan-2011 09:22

The pc's sound is set to the optical output(default)? Right click speaker on task-bar >playback devices>click on digital sound output option(what ever it is) >set as default. Restart pc. See if it works.

golfpunk111

94 posts

Master Geek

#427359 15-Jan-2011 10:27

yeah have done that and it is already set to default device and still nothing... thanks

golfpunk111

94 posts

Master Geek

#427420 15-Jan-2011 15:03

ok have managed to get sound now but it keeps cutting out after a few minutes and only working again after i turn multi zone off/on and activating zone 2 dvr again and then either leaving zone 2 on or turning it off, it will still cut out after another few minutes...

blur

384 posts

Ultimate Geek

#428729 19-Jan-2011 10:17

I'm not suggesting that there is a correlation between the problem that you are having and the one I experienced, but I too had the same problem with an Asus board.

No matter what I tried, I could not get sound out of the S/PDIF interface. It turned out to be a faulty board which I ended up swapping for a Gigabyte board.

I wouldn't rule the above out?

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golfpunk111

94 posts

Master Geek

#428739 19-Jan-2011 10:42

Thanks, yeah I was wondering that, but fortunately that was not the problem.

The problem basically was an out of date nvidia graphics card driver. I used a hdmi cable to connect to my receiver and had gone through the settings and disabled the audio through the hdmi cable, but the card thought it would still try send it through the hdmi cable which basically confused itself and the receiver and the blank audio signal it transmitted prevailed. After updating the drivers and reselecting the disable audio through hdmi option i got sound, hurrah!