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15th July 2007, 18:16
My HTPC has been build with an Asus A7N8X-X NForce2 mobo with a SPDIF riser card.
The on board sound is Intel's Realtek AC'97. As PA I use a normal Dolby 5.1 tuner/amplifier.
The problem of late is that the SPDIF out sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.On coax that is. On Optical the sound is distorted, it's like it's coming in bytes (what it does of course, but one's not supposed to hear that)
All players (Powerdvd, Gom and Classic) in XP are configured digital out. Realtek's driver has no setting to choose between analog and digital. The cables and amplifier are ok (both optical and digital, I tested them on the same amplifier with a DV-T receiver. So, now for the questions:
1.Do I use the (older) original Asus (for my mobo)realtek drivers or the newest one from realtek, or even the latest sounddrivers for the Nforce2 chipset?
2. Is the sound (pc->SPDIF) processed on the riser card or by the chipset. If it's the riser, it might be a malfunction of the riser card.
3. Or will I be better off with a budget sound card with spdif
(optical or coax) out?
4. Is there a difference in SPDIF out or is it always 96Khz?
The on board sound is Intel's Realtek AC'97. As PA I use a normal Dolby 5.1 tuner/amplifier.
The problem of late is that the SPDIF out sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.On coax that is. On Optical the sound is distorted, it's like it's coming in bytes (what it does of course, but one's not supposed to hear that)
All players (Powerdvd, Gom and Classic) in XP are configured digital out. Realtek's driver has no setting to choose between analog and digital. The cables and amplifier are ok (both optical and digital, I tested them on the same amplifier with a DV-T receiver. So, now for the questions:
1.Do I use the (older) original Asus (for my mobo)realtek drivers or the newest one from realtek, or even the latest sounddrivers for the Nforce2 chipset?
2. Is the sound (pc->SPDIF) processed on the riser card or by the chipset. If it's the riser, it might be a malfunction of the riser card.
3. Or will I be better off with a budget sound card with spdif
(optical or coax) out?
4. Is there a difference in SPDIF out or is it always 96Khz?