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    Cannot get hdmi to output audio on P-6831FX

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by thespy007, Feb 27, 2008.

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    thespy007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am using vista 64. Have nvidia drivers from laptop2go. I set the audio to spdif and restarted computer and still no auido from hdmi. One thing i think it is, there is a unknown device called Location 1 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus).
    I cannot find a driver for it, i assume it has something to do with the audio driver because gateway does not have a vista 64 audio driver for this laptop.

    Anyone with vista 64 successfully had audio to output on hdmi?
     
    thespy007, Feb 27, 2008
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    thespy007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Got it working. To my surprise the vista 32 audio drivers was able to install and a new HDMI spdif output was added to the playback devices.
     
    thespy007, Feb 27, 2008
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    I'm running vista 32bit, and I cant for the life of me get audio to go through hdmi. Drivers seem fine. Windows shows audio with the meters, but nothing comes out the tv speakers. Am I missing something else?

    UPDATE: I uninstalled the high def audio device. rebooted...it autoinstalled again (gee thanks), but this time the install for the IDT sound drivers from gateways site completed successfully, and upon reboot, 2 digital outputs are in Playback devices. SPDIF and HDMI. Wonder where the SPDIF output is. Works great now. Hope this helps someone.

    I reinstalled Vista from scratch so I didn't realize i needed a better sound driver because windows already installed it.
     
    jamex, Feb 28, 2008
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