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    P7811-FX Watching DVD and Blu-ray movies via HDMI

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by MistaChy, Jun 27, 2009.

  1. MistaChy

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    I hook my laptop up to my Audio/Video receiver via HDMI out and I never get a digital signal. does the NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GTS graphics card not have surround sound capability when playing movies?

    Ive tried playing movies the WMP, WinDVD, and PowerDVD and I can never get a digital signal from anything that I play.
     
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    Have you set your playback devices to be HDMI?
     
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    What does that mean? I plug in my hdmi cable, the audio/video signal goes to the receiver... and its not digital? what do you mean set playback devices to HDMI?
     
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    this is what i see when i go into the sound device
    [​IMG]

    now im just trying to figure out why my receiver sees the signal as 2 channel stereo, non digital. my ati sound card on the other computer works fine, but this one is not outputing a digital signal
     
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    Yeah thats what i ment. Sometimes it doesnt auto default to HDMI. Yours seems to be set right.

    So you're getting no sound at all or just not 5.1?
     
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    its not digiatal meaning i get sound but its not multichannel decoded sound. its 2 channel analog
     
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    This is what i see after trying to play a test tone
    [​IMG]
     
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    hrm... I was under the impression that the 78xx series has an HDMI 1.3 system and could export 5.1 audio stream.

    Have you tried looking for newer drivers for your HDMI? Not sure an update would help, but gateway has a few different drivers for the HDMI ont he 68xx and 78xx series. Maybe one of the others will give you the 5.1 out you're looking for.
     
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    i just install a new driver for the HDMI audio. let me restart and ill see if that fixes it.
     
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    That was the problem. When I installed the 9c.10 bios the microphone jacks and the HDMI audio stopped working correctly. I had to use the option "HAVE DISK" to force the driver to be installed from gateway driver downloads. after that, its working now. Thanks for the help Batman
     
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    No worries mate, thats why i'm here. I just wish all the problems were this quick of a fix for everyone.

    Enjoy your 5.1 :)
     
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