Anyone use a receiver hooked up to a 5870 in a PC?

[Compddd]

I'm trying to get audio working on my PC through a Onkyo receiver by connecting it to the HDMI output on my 5870, but it keeps saying not plugged in under sound control panel in Windows 7. I can't find anything on Google, does anyone have any ideas?

Using a Onkyo HT-670 receiver, Radeon 5870 video card, and Dell 3007WPF-HC monitor

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

Some receivers don't do audio through the HDMI input. I think it's because they have pre-HDMI-1.3 ports. 1.3 and later have DTS-HD Master Audio compression and Dolby TrueHD compression. I have a friend that bought a receiver that doesn't pick up audio through HDMI, and a friend that got a receiver a month later that does. He only does because of the first guy telling me the issue.


Does HDMI on a video card transmit audio anyway?

 

[Fallen Kell]

The video card has an audio chip/functionality in it, so it is a video/audio card. At least the HD5xxx series cards are this way. Some have audio pass-thru connectors which can take a SPDIF connection from an audio card and output the audio stream on the correct pins on the HDMI connector

 

[Number1]

I'm trying to get audio working on my PC through a Onkyo receiver by connecting it to the HDMI output on my 5870, but it keeps saying not plugged in under sound control panel in Windows 7. I can't find anything on Google, does anyone have any ideas?

Using a Onkyo HT-670 receiver, Radeon 5870 video card, and Dell 3007WPF-HC monitor

The HT-670 is a receiver/speaker combo . The actual receiver for this system is the HT-640 and it doesn't even have HDMI connectors. How do you hook up this receiver to your video card?

 

[blackangst1]

Two important things...

1. Does your receiver support HDMI 1.4,
2. Are you using an HDMI 1.4 cable?

If no to either/both, then it wont work

 

[Number1]

Two important things...

1. Does your receiver support HDMI 1.4,
2. Are you using an HDMI 1.4 cable?

If no to either/both, then it wont work

HDMI 1.4 add support for 3D, ethernet, audio return and 4k X 2K resolution. HD audio will work with 1.3

 

[jtvang125]

The HT-670 is a receiver/speaker combo . The actual receiver for this system is the HT-640 and it doesn't even have HDMI connectors. How do you hook up this receiver to your video card?

Yep, I skimmed over the page for the HTiB and it doesn't mention anywhere that it has HDMI. OP, how are you hooking up your video card to the receiver with HDMI when there's no HDMI input?

Best connection, if your motherboard supports it, is to connect the two via an optical cable. You can then pass through DTS or DD to it and get 5.1.

 

[Aikouka]

Do you get audio through it when hooked up to anything else? You have to make sure you install the sound drivers then ATi's Catalyst drivers or else you cannot get sound out of the HDMI port on your 5000-series card. Well, that's what I discovered when I had an issue with my 5450.

 

[alcoholbob]

Wait, what sound drivers? ATI has seperate sound drivers for 5xxx video cards?

 

[jmanny]

You may want to visit the htpc edid override thread at avs forum. Can't link to it at work, but I have read that the 5000 series and certain receivers need to have an .inf file changed in order for the receiver to recognize hdmi audio.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Wait, what sound drivers? ATI has seperate sound drivers for 5xxx video cards?

Yes and no. You need to download the Realtek Audio Drivers, I forget which version exactly. There is an entire thread somewhere here which simply about how to get DTS-MA over a 5xxx video card with exactly what software and drivers.

 

[alevasseur14]

I just hooked my 4870 to my new Samsung 52" a couple weeks ago and also could not figure out the sound. As it turns out, the adapter I got with my ASUS card matched the color of one of the DVI ports. Until I hooked the DVI-HDMI adapter up to that port, the computer would say a cable was unplugged. I'm not sure if all the 5000 series cards have an actual built in HDMI port, but you could look for something like that.

 

[alcoholbob]

Hmm, the Windows 7 Control Panel on my 5870 gives me the following sample rates:

16 bit / 32 KHz
16 bit / 44KHz
16 bit / 48KHz
24 bit / 44 KHz
24 bit / 48 KHz

That's it? What a terrible list of choices. My onboard can do that in addition to 16/88, 16/96, 24/96, 24/192.

The Hdmi audio choices seem pretty crappy =\

 

[jtvang125]

The CCC package contains the hdmi audio driver but you can install the Reltek HD audio driver on top. This should give you 8 ch supported in the control panel along with sampling rates up to 24/192. But then no blu-ray movie samples that high with multichannel audio, only 2 channel stereo. There's only a handful of blu-ray movies that have 24/96 while most are still at 48.

 

[Fallen Kell]

I just hooked my 4870 to my new Samsung 52" a couple weeks ago and also could not figure out the sound. As it turns out, the adapter I got with my ASUS card matched the color of one of the DVI ports. Until I hooked the DVI-HDMI adapter up to that port, the computer would say a cable was unplugged. I'm not sure if all the 5000 series cards have an actual built in HDMI port, but you could look for something like that.

All the ones I have seen have a built in HDMI port. I do not believe you can get certified HDMI 1.3 without being a full built in port, but who knows.


Also since I don't think anyone ever directly answered the question as to "Anyone use a receiver hooked up to a 5870 in a PC?", the answer would be "Yes". While I on'y have a 5750, I know others who have a 5870. My requirements for quiet over-ruled the use of a 5870 in my build (my 5750 is fanless).