If you are hearing your audio currently through your HDMI connected screen, you will not be getting the same sound through your SPDIF, as the computer is not sending the sound there. When your computer outputs audio, it has to choose one of those two audio devices to send the sound to. One issue I believe you are facing is, your HDMI and SPDIF connector on your motherboard are two distinctly separate audio devices. It really isn't related to what you're trying to do.

I would stop worrying about your computer's BIOS in relation to your sound. If anyone knows how to suss that problem out, I would be appreciative, luckily, it doesn't effect my use of the PC beyond the sound settings, so far. I have tried numerous times but always the same result. I would love to know how to change the HDMI to SPDIF setting without having to enter bios, because at the moment, my bios screen seem to be playing hooky, I enter, and am faced with a black screen, I move the mouse and it reveals a little bit of the bios screen at a time, but not a bios screen I can interact with. go figure.īut this is not my idea solution, only an adequate tape over. In the Asus sound manager I have had to change the audio setting to stereo (?) and now I can get 5.1. However, I have found a way around it by connecting analogue directly to my TV that is connected to my amp, and I can get 5.1, or some semblence of 5.1.

On the new PC it wasn't working straight away. It seems to be something recent, I was using another pc with SPDIF working perfect for a while, and one day it just stopped, the amp can't pick up the dolby signal (the dolby icon on the amp doesn't illuminate when SPDIF is inserted). I use SPDIF from my sky box to the amp for TV, all great. When attempting to use the SPDIF output of the motherboard, have you first configured the computer not to use the HDMI audio device?

That is what both your motherboard and amplifier support. In your case, you should be using DTS-Connect, as Games, while they support surround, require real-time encoding be in place on the computer to translate the game's output to a surround signal which is then sent to your external audio equipment. My first question would be, what audio are you expecting to be playing in 5.1? Movies and some television programs you may play on the computer are about the only content that will be pre-encoded to actually play with more than 2 channels of sound. Your motherboard seems perfectly suited to pair with your Panasonic amplifier.

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