Hey all,
Firstly, sorry if I'm posting on the wrong board, if so let me know the right one please.
So, this has low key been an issue for myself for like a year but now that I'm getting a GTX 1080 it's an issue that I would like to solve sooner rather than later if possible.
My problem is that I am trying to achieve true 5.1 audio with my desktop PC. I'm an idiot and somehow I broke the optical audio port on my motherboard. I'm using a 4K monitor, and my home threater system does not support 4K, so I am running DVI-HDMI from my PC to my monitor.
That leaves me with an open HDMI slot on my video card (GTX 970), so I've tried running HDMI to my home theater to only do audio, but my desktop won't seem to recognize my home theater via HDMI when I already have that card sending video via DVI-HDMI to my 4k monitor.
I've tried a digital coax cable from my desktop to my HT system and it won't even let me configure speakers, when I run a 5.1 test on Splinter Cell Blacklist it just works in stereo... So I assume digital coax doesn't do 5.1?
Optical can do 5.1... right? So I could buy a soundcard with optical and just run that directly to my HT and I would have 5.1... I think?
Ideally I'd like to audio via HDMI but that does not seem to work when I'm already outputting video in a different cable from the same video card. Do they make soundcards with HDMI?
This turned out to be super stream of consciousness, my bad... If there is anything I can clarify let me know..
My motherboard is a MSI 97-GD65. My home theater is a Sony STR-KS370.
Firstly, sorry if I'm posting on the wrong board, if so let me know the right one please.
So, this has low key been an issue for myself for like a year but now that I'm getting a GTX 1080 it's an issue that I would like to solve sooner rather than later if possible.
My problem is that I am trying to achieve true 5.1 audio with my desktop PC. I'm an idiot and somehow I broke the optical audio port on my motherboard. I'm using a 4K monitor, and my home threater system does not support 4K, so I am running DVI-HDMI from my PC to my monitor.
That leaves me with an open HDMI slot on my video card (GTX 970), so I've tried running HDMI to my home theater to only do audio, but my desktop won't seem to recognize my home theater via HDMI when I already have that card sending video via DVI-HDMI to my 4k monitor.
I've tried a digital coax cable from my desktop to my HT system and it won't even let me configure speakers, when I run a 5.1 test on Splinter Cell Blacklist it just works in stereo... So I assume digital coax doesn't do 5.1?
Optical can do 5.1... right? So I could buy a soundcard with optical and just run that directly to my HT and I would have 5.1... I think?
Ideally I'd like to audio via HDMI but that does not seem to work when I'm already outputting video in a different cable from the same video card. Do they make soundcards with HDMI?
This turned out to be super stream of consciousness, my bad... If there is anything I can clarify let me know..
My motherboard is a MSI 97-GD65. My home theater is a Sony STR-KS370.