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Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M woes
Bought a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M based on the specs claiming 5.1 audio. Of
course, it cost an extra $20 to get the S/PDIF bracket (getting that was a whole 'nother tale of woe). However, when all was properly connected, NO 5.1 audio. The digital signal (on COAX) consisted of L & R signals only. Ran the set up utilities, etc, etc. Ran the speaker placement test. L, R = good. Sub, C, Lr, Rr = silence. Tested the receiver's digital inputs with separate digital source, ran THX audio test, also verified 5.1 speaker connection with test tone. Good receiver. Good speakers. No reply from Gigabyte, yet. |
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kony wrote:
As Paul mentioned, you have to have a 5.1 channel sound source, _OR_ you might have a setting in your audio card (driver) software control panel to copy or otherwise transfer some audio to more than the L & R channels. Apparently the AC97 audio configuration utility that tests the 6 channels doesn't properly encode the signals. It has a cute graphic with 6 speakers you can select for testing. However, only left and right speakers responded. If that utility doesn't generate 5.1 sound, it's pretty useless as a 6 channel speaker tester. Go figure. Good news - I was successful getting a 5.1 signal from PowerDVD. Thanks for the replies. Problem resolved. |
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On 18 Oct 2006 01:38:04 -0700, "jetgraphics"
wrote: kony wrote: As Paul mentioned, you have to have a 5.1 channel sound source, _OR_ you might have a setting in your audio card (driver) software control panel to copy or otherwise transfer some audio to more than the L & R channels. Apparently the AC97 audio configuration utility that tests the 6 channels doesn't properly encode the signals. I should have mentioned that it's not going to encode it, you'd have analog out for the rest on AC97 if the driver control panel is fancy enough to support it. It has a cute graphic with 6 speakers you can select for testing. However, only left and right speakers responded. If that utility doesn't generate 5.1 sound, it's pretty useless as a 6 channel speaker tester. Go figure. Plug speakers into your analog output then retry it. Good news - I was successful getting a 5.1 signal from PowerDVD. Thanks for the replies. .... at least it works! |
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Can't you get 5.1 sound (or at least 4-speaker sound) from computer
games that support it? Which are the software encoders that compress "analog" sound to AC3 sound? |
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bump... help plz
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