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    No sound throguh HDMI with the G51.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Rezigrene, Jul 2, 2009.

  1. Rezigrene

    Rezigrene Notebook Evangelist

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    The sound plays through the laptop, but not through the TV like I need it to.

    I had to use ForceDisableJD and et the value to FF because my headphone jack is broken; ForceDisableJD>FF causes the headphone jack and speakers to work simultaneously.

    Any ideas?
     
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  2. Flaring Afro

    Flaring Afro Notebook Consultant

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    Well, I dont know anything about the forcedisable but when i went to bb today it had the option. When you have the hdmi plugged in you should see hdmi under playback devices. It could be on a setting your tv does not support. Change the Hz or turn it to 5.1 and disable dts and see what happens.
     
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  3. Rezigrene

    Rezigrene Notebook Evangelist

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    Hertz just changes the refresh rate, I'll try the other two things though.
     
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    ^ yes, but if too high some devices wont play anything.
     
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    Tried the hertz thing. no dice.

    The TV doesn't have an option for DTS or 5.1. It's a 42" Samsung LCD with 120Hz.
     
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    Did you try changing the sound/speaker default to go to HDMI out option? You hit the Speaker icon in the icon tray to access.
     
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    that (when the picture is on the tv).

    and when you use the fn->hdmi combo (like the g50's, maybe the same on the g51 -- when the picture is on the tv), check if nVidia HDMI Audio is in the device manager.
    if it needs a driver, download the latest (186.03?) notebook drivers from lv2g or nvidia.com, extract with 7zip (or equivalent), and they should have the hdmi audio drivers in a folder.
     
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    Changed ForceDisableJD to 01, restarted, unplugged HMDI cable and plugged it back in.

    Worked.
     
    Rezigrene, Jul 3, 2009
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