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Fred, what receiver are you using? I know you've told us before... short-term memory!

Short term what? Just a sec, gotta look... RD6500

After much fiddling I am... nowhere.

I moved the puter and hooked it up to the receiver. It took me a while, but I got the receiver configured for Optical Digital In (all manual). One minor glitch, the display is still in the bedroom because the receiver is on top of the stand for easy access. I had to pull the crt off my old pc and move it into the livinroom.

So I popped in a CD and... nothing. I double checked all my settings on the receiver and they are OK. According to the manual a pulsing digital input label means no signal. Sigh.

I looked high and low in Vista and there is no indication of anything relating to passing PCM. The audio driver interface indicates that optical out is connected and working. Sigh.

When I pull up the profile for the interface PCM is not shown as a supported format. I have no idea if it is even considered a 'format'.

The first thing I will try tomorrow is analog out from the computer. I need mini-jack to RCA connectors though.

If anyone else has any suggestions or insights I would appreciate it.

PCM basically justs means (as I understand it) taking the raw digital off the disc and putting it onto the wire. Are you getting Windows sounds out of it?

I know, but it would be nice to have some indication that it is indeed being passed. I didn't have time to try any windows sounds, but with the receiver indicating that its not getting anything in over optical I don't think windows sounds will work.

I guess I'm trying to figure out if there is some way to confirm what is happening at each stage.

Double check your connections on both ends. It's possible you've got the ins and the outs mixed up. Of course, that's never happened to any of us...

There might be an answer here, Fred. But maybe not.

I Finally managed to get sound out of my speakers using analog out on the onboard audio and CD in on the receiver. As soon as I pluged the left and right outputs in, I got an audio popup to configure the outputs. It came as speaker out( no option to assign L/R so they are hooked up backwards right now).

Seeing as I don't have any sort of speaker/audio out option on the digital output, it looks like the onboard audio won't send an audio stream over spdif. I bet when I connect the Display and play a movie it will send everything over the digital channel. If it only sends video then I will suspect audio DRM.

Seems sort of foolish to not to have an option to redirect audio streams to the connector of choice.

I had to haul my 21" viewsonic out of the bedroom to fiddle with the audio settings on Vista.

I managed to pack all the foam corners into one of the big boxes. Now I need to figure out where to put it.



Now that I have tunes, I can take my time with the rest of the setup. Funny thing though, max volume only gives me about 75-80db. I bet its something in the onboard audio.

Maybe you already mentioned somewhere, but what motherboard do you have? I had trouble with my digital output on my motherboard at first. I switched it to digital, but I couldn't get any sound. I don't remember what steps I took, but I had to play with it. I have the Asus P5E.