@Dashrender said:
@technobabble said:
@Dashrender That's weird...is it running W8.1
Yes
I really should have speakers on my work PC...I haven't had sound since since 2011 on my W7 PC. I mean I have earbuds connected for occasional music or webinar. I am usually surprised at the noises Windows makes when onsite with a clients PC.
@Dashrender That's weird...is it running W8.1
@thanksaj said:
@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble The DVI actually carries the audio. The system is basically using the DVI connector as an HDMI connector. So it sees an audio device plugged in.
We've solve the mystery of why it wants to do it. Now the mystery is, why does turning it off on the card not turn it off?
Thanks @scottalanmiller for bringing the discussion back on track...this is what I has hoping to find out!
You said you DISABLED the device under Windows Sound Playback Devices?
nope see message above
@thanksaj
- I checked nVidia's software and there was a DVI audio link, so I disabled it.
- Disabled nVidia drivers in the device manager under Sound
@Dashrender said:
The nVidia driver could see the connection and kill the sound.
@Dashrender I thought that too, but if I disabled the drivers in Devices manager and disabled in nVidia software no sound occured. How is that? Freaky...
@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble The DVI actually carries the audio. The system is basically using the DVI connector as an HDMI connector. So it sees an audio device plugged in.
We've solve the mystery of why it wants to do it. Now the mystery is, why does turning it off on the card not turn it off?
Thanks @scottalanmiller for bringing the discussion back on track...this is what I has hoping to find out!
@thanksaj said:
@technobabble said:
@thanksaj said:
Can you clarify the connections? You said it's DVI to HDMI but then you said it's DVI at both ends.
@technobabble said:
Customer bought 2 new Asus M51AD PCs with nVidia Geforce GTX 750 1GB cards from Best Buy which came with HDMI capable monitors (one 24" and one 27"). So when the customer setup the PCs she used the DVI to HDMI connector. DVI out from video card to DVI on monitor. W8.1 PC
So, which end has the HDMI, the monitor or the computer?
Fixed: DVI out from video card to HDVI on monitor.
Ok, this is weird. I could see issues if you were doing it the other way around, but the card shouldn't have audio capabilities. The cable is its own thing. Can you get a screenshot of the Audio devices/sound devices in Device Manager?
I don't have it but I can tell you that both the nVidia manager software had DVI set to auto and under Sound in the device manager where was nVidia listings for sound. drivers
@scottalanmiller said:
Here it is... apparently there is a means of putting audio onto the DVI cable so that when you convert to HDMI it is there. Basically, I think, they are bastardizing the DVI standard to make this work.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/audio-through-dvi.145343/
I had read about that a while back...so by connecting the cord from DVI to HDMI, why would I lose all sound? Was it the connection via 3.5mm jack?
@thanksaj said:
Can you clarify the connections? You said it's DVI to HDMI but then you said it's DVI at both ends.
@technobabble said:
Customer bought 2 new Asus M51AD PCs with nVidia Geforce GTX 750 1GB cards from Best Buy which came with HDMI capable monitors (one 24" and one 27"). So when the customer setup the PCs she used the DVI to HDMI connector. DVI out from video card to DVI on monitor. W8.1 PC
So, which end has the HDMI, the monitor or the computer?
Fixed: DVI out from video card to HDVI on monitor.
If the card is HDMI and the monitor is HDMI capable, how much better than VGA is their experience going to be in an office setting using CAD program (20-20 kitchen cabinet builder)?
@scottalanmiller I thought it was weird too.
I wish I had a screenshot for you that shows the Audio tab with the DVI chosen to provide sound, but I will get one next time I am at the clients office.
Contacted Best Buy Geek Squad and they were impressed that I figured it out as they would have suggested sending it back to Asus.
@scottalanmiller said:
It's HDMI on the card and DVI on the monitor? HDMI normally hijacks the sound. I've had that issue too. DVI can't carry sound, which is a huge pain. HDMI is basically a DVI + audio cable.
Card has output for VGA, DVI and HDMI
nVidia has DVI audio in their control panel software
Customer bought 2 new Asus M51AD PCs with nVidia Geforce GTX 750 1GB cards from Best Buy which came with HDMI capable monitors (one 24" and one 27"). So when the customer setup the PCs she used the DVI to HDMI connector. DVI out from video card to HDVI on monitor. W8.1 PC
I was brought into setup other stuff as well as diagnose why there was no sound on both new PCs.
After checking the connections and testing with known good speakers I started digging into software and drivers.
By this time I was frustrated and had already Googled and found nothing. I still felt it was a hardware/software glitch.
Last thing I did after thanking Support for their "awesomeness" was to disconnect the DVI to HDMI cord and connect the VGA cord. Tried to play Free Falling on YouTube and viola! Sound, glorious sound.
Now can anyone explain WTF is going on here? Why would DVI to HDMI hijack the sound from the Realtek? Especially when I disabled it in the nVidia panel
This is one of the reasons I stopped dealing with EMR/EHR software.
@scottalanmiller said:
None for IT, software or Physics
You mean Swordfish and Hackers didn't get it right?
almost LOL for real after typing that.
Well I got a reply back from MS support. They might call me today, but in the meantime they told me I had to login as another admin to make changes to an admin. I did that and I am a global admin, so the whole signed-in user is not a tenant admin is not fixed.
Formated and named partition System Reserved and am trying to get that VHD of mine running on Hyper-V. Have W7 DVD booted and am attempting to do magic with bcdboot
