Comments on: HTPC woes

By: neko

neko — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:26:18 +0000

you wern’t very specific about exactly what motherboard your using, so i had to guess a bit. found a link on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813141015
this is a known bug with this board, looks like a bios/controller mismatch from here. you need to swap that for a DIFFERENT manufacture’rs board – i recommend places like newegg if for no other reason than direct feedback and most common bugs are mentioned in the comments. i dont like gigabyte for boards, ive had mixed luck.

By: RageX

RageX — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:41:03 +0000

On my gaming machine under the crappy Vista my BFG GTX 280 had HDMI sound to support it my crappy Integrated Drivers Soundmax i had to set Default Audio as SPDIF then connect on board the SPDIF cables to the Video card so i get audio out in HDMI.

The rest of the machine is Nvidia Chipset. P5N-T Deluxe old board does the job fine.

By: ilifin

ilifin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:42:56 +0000

Still nothing. Latest is that they’re asking for a driver version. For uh, I dunno. I gave them a wall of text of all my drivers. They also suggested I check my Realtek control panel for a HDMI tab. Funny thing is, they earlier asked me to install the latest _NVIDIA_ HDMI Audio Driver, which is the sound chip for HDMI present on the board.

Getting tired of this? Me? Nah, not at all.

By: Boycestrous

Boycestrous — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:40:09 +0000

Did you get anywhere with the support at XFX? I have the board and funnily enough the same problem. If it’s not easily fixed then I might rip the board out, bin it, and replace it with an Asus P5N7A-VM.

By: Dsk

Dsk — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:28:18 +0000

Yeah, I think a few of the very first boards had a problem but that was quite a while ago now. I can’t imagine a 9300 based board not doing audio over HDMI. That would be a huge step backwards for no reason.

By: ilifin

ilifin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:28:15 +0000

Right so it’s the board. Great. Here I go for the most pretty of them board since I’m such a Mac tard, and what do I get? ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

By: Borkmeir

Borkmeir — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:25:16 +0000

I haven’t had any problems on the AMD side with the 790 GX based boards, but that’s not really an option for you since you already went with an Intel setup. My gut says go Gigabyte, but that’s only because I’ve never had a problem with them. A while back Anandtech reviewed some Nvidia based 8200/8300 boards and their onboard HDMI worked just fine. I don’t see any reason why a 9400 based board would regress in it’s HDMI support. It’s probably just XFX, which wouldn’t surprise me, everything XFX that I’ve ever bought had some kind of problem or required great effort to get it to do what it was supposed to out of the box.

By: ilifin

ilifin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:58:09 +0000

Yeah, I can see that. But do you guys even know for sure that *any* board out there with HDMI on it, with an IGP and an audio card in the board, can output video + audio through the onboard HDMI?

By: Dsk

Dsk — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:41:32 +0000

Yeah, sounds like they want you to use the SPDIF for audio rather than the HDMI. Either they are confused about what’s wrong or they are trying to pawn you off onto a different solution because they don’t know how to fix it.

By: Gokie

Gokie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:39:47 +0000

I think they want you to use SPDIF for audio output instead of HDMI. And while the two are not mutually exclusive, I’d say in this case it’s just standard tech support incompetence and them not understanding you.