I am hooking my Dell PC up to my Samsung using a HDMI/DVI cable and cable coming from the sound card to two RCA phono cables connecting to the RCA ports on the TV for HDMI1. The picture is great but I get no sound. I know the sound card and cables work because I can connect them to my stereo and that works fine. Any suggestions? As a matter of fact just about all the RCA phono jacks on the TV do not work.
Hi,
Pls bear with me, have you tried not using the HDMI/DVI cable but simple straight connection PC > Standard 15 pin VGA cable and audio cable that has "stereo mini-plug" on both ends to the PC IN of the Samsung?
Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.
Good luck and kind regards. Thank you for using FixYa.
You may have to connect it to the audio jack next to the VGA port of PC input as can be seen from this pic
http://review.zdnet.com/sc/32514512-2-300-DT1.gif
The PC input ports are at the top of the pic midway.
I had the same problem before and this fixed it
Hope this helps
Cheers
JigSaw
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Since HDMI carries audio and video on one cable, most TVs default to
using the HDMI inputs for the audio for that video feed. Most TVs have
some sort of setting in the setup menu where you can tell it to use
audio from a different input when you choose that HDMI input for the
video.
Chances are the TV thinks the audio is supposed to come from
the HDMI cable, because that is the norm. I think you need to program
the TV to use a different audio source when getting from from that
particular HDMI input.
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You need to enable RCA output on your PC first.
For Windows XP, to change the audio output
to analog audio for the headphone jack or RCA connectors,
right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties".
Select the "Hardware" tab and then the "Device
Manager" button. Locate the "DVD/CD-ROM Drives"
heading and click on the "+" sign. Right click
on the selected drive. Select "Properties",
then the "Properties" tab. At the bottom of
the window, in the section titled "Digital CD Playback",
uncheck the option to enable digital audio, and select
the "OK" button. To enable digital audio,
use the same path and check the box to enable.
By the way connecting PC audio out to tv it is not the best choice, it is better to connect audio out to tv home theater or to computer surround speakers.
Here is an extensive link on this matter
How To Connect Your PC to Your Home Stereo or Home Theater
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I am hooking my Dell PC up to my Samsung using a HDMI/DVI cable and cable coming from the sound card to two RCA phono cables connecting to the RCA ports on the TV for HDMI1. The picture is great but I get no sound. I know the sound card and cables work because I can connect them to my stereo and that works fine. Any suggestions? As a matter of fact just about all the RCA phono jacks on the TV do not work.
Hi,
The sound card on my PC has an 1/8" mini-plug output jack. I have a stereo mini-plug cord that is coupled to two RCA phono cords that go to the TV RCA phono plugs for the HDMI1 jack that the video card is plugged to. I am not using my CD/DVD player but Windows Media to play a video file with sound. Changing the CD/DVD player to not play digital dows not effect what I am playing. The same setup plays fine going to the stereo system but I want to be able to play videos and hear the sound from the TV which has a fantastic sound system. Can you give me any other suggestions?
I have placed a service call with Samsung and hope to get a technician out this week. If anyone else has any ideas please let me know. Apparently the Samsung user guide has false information on their PC setup instructions.
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