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    m15x 9800GT has HDMI audio?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by JustTray, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. JustTray

    JustTray Newbie

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    First, thanks for the help on my upgrading to Windows 7 issue. As it turns out, trying to do the upgrade was a horrible idea and Microsoft has been hit with thousands of identical issues of people trying to 'upgrade' their OS. Sucks so bad.

    I have the Nvidia 9800M GT graphics card in my m15x and I've never been able to get the sound to work. I used alienware support and they had me reinstall all my drivers, but on two seperate TVs I can only get video to show. I have done tons of googling and it seems like something related to SPDIF might be the case, but I'm just not tech savvy enough to understand exactly what I need to do to make the audio also work through the HDMI.

    Hopefully there's an easy answer.

    Thank you,

    Just Tray
     
    JustTray, Oct 28, 2009
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  2. nickbarbs

    nickbarbs Notebook Deity

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    Simply put you can't, I dont think the 8800MGTX /9800M GT (Same thing) supports Audio over HDMI. Sorry.
     
    nickbarbs, Oct 28, 2009
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  3. EviLCorsaiR

    EviLCorsaiR Asura

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    Ahh, the ATi advantage. :p

    As said above, the 8800MGTX doesn't support audio over HDMI. Simply put, you can't. In fact, I don't think many (if any at all) nVidia cards support audio over HDMI...whereas ATi cards do. :)
     
    EviLCorsaiR, Oct 28, 2009
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