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    Spdif problem on Asus X50-Gl ap045

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by ionutserban, Nov 26, 2008.

  1. ionutserban

    ionutserban Newbie

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    Hello community.
    My name is Ionut and I am the owner of an asus notebook, recently purchased.
    My problem is that I can’t seem to make the spdif connection work. I read the most topics on this forum and I bought an 3,5mm to optical cable hooked it up to my Logitech 5400 THX certified sound system witch has 2 optical and 1 coax connection, and it didn’t work.
    I talked with asus support and they replied: “Please enter the "master volume" and then enable the SPDIF for a try and use the optical cable. „ I could’t fiind that option.
    I have realtek HD Audio witch always say’s analog imput and shows at speaker config stereo an greyd out.
    I’m at the end of my pacience i’m trying for a week to solve this problem but it seems that I can’t.
    Do you have any sugestions?
    Notebook Config:
    T5800
    3 Gb RAM
    250 Gb HDD
    Realtek HD Audio
    OS Windows Vista
     
    ionutserban, Nov 26, 2008
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I never used digital out, but I believe there should be a switch somewhere in the driver options to toggle from analog output to digital.

    Perhaps another driver version would help?
     
    E.B.E., Nov 26, 2008
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  3. ionutserban

    ionutserban Newbie

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    I think so!
    I wrote to asus and realtek and the responses are weak. The asus tehnician told me what you see in the previous post it took me some time to tell thet he was refering to XP and I have Vista and that he knew.
    Anyways I know tht the notebook has Spdif or so iti apears on some sites and the Asus tehnician didn't say to me that it woldn't.
     
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  4. Qwakrz

    Qwakrz Notebook Consultant

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    I presume you have changed the output device.

    Under Vista you need to select the SPDIF as the output device before starting the program you wish to use with it. This can be done by right clicking the speaker and choosing playback devices, then making the digital output the default device and starting your program.

    I think the above is correct as I am on an XP system at work so cannot check.
     
    Qwakrz, Nov 27, 2008
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  5. ionutserban

    ionutserban Newbie

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    The problem is that in sound mixer vista there is only an option speakers and HDMI when hdmi is connected.
    I'm begining to think that the notebook is faulty or it does not have spdif
     
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  6. E.B.E.

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    Have you tried the driver update/change suggestion?
     
    E.B.E., Nov 30, 2008
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