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Intel Pentium IGP, PC freezes after powering HDMI display off then back on.

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Well, I went cheap on this build. Initially, I intended to get an Asrock z87 extreme4, but the price skyrocketed a while back. The Gigabyte board has the ALC898 sound chip and I thought that would be a good thing. After discovering that sound doesn't come from all speakers when playing stereo streams (even with the "speaker fill" box checked), I put my Audigy 1 in to fix that.

If the i3's have better IGP support, that's probably one to get. After paying ~$34 more for a GPU I have no use for, I realize it might have been a good idea. Sounds like it would've saved me some work troubleshooting, too! Buuuut....now that I made the choice, I gotta live with it. It'll be fine for my uses.
 
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Papa Hogan said:
Well, I went cheap on this build. Initially, I intended to get an Asrock z87 extreme4, but the price skyrocketed a while back. The Gigabyte board has the ALC898 sound chip and I thought that would be a good thing. .
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Did you check with Gigabyte to see if they have an updated driver for that?
 
I'm pretty sure I tried the Gigabyte driver as well as the Realtek. I think the issue was present in both. Full surround sound seems to work fine in all speakers, but not everything is encoded in 5.1. I understand the windows 8.1 Netflix app streams in surround, but I have win7. I may use the onboard sound if I decide to plug in my headset that has optical in, but this old Audigy still works just fine for everything else.
 
I also use onboard sound on an Asrock z68 extreme3 gen3 and I get the same garbled sound out of the rear speakers when I tick the "speaker fill" box when using a stereo source. This problem appears to be specific to Realtek onboard sound. I read somewhere and confirmed that enabling the "Room" sound effect in the Realtek HD audio manager somewhat fixes this. It does change the sound a bit so it's not ideal, but it does come out of the rear channels. If you enable both "speaker fill" and the "room" sound effect, it sounds better (to me) in Netflix than either one on its own.

Also, Foobar2000 has a DSP I like that converts stereo to 4 channels.
 
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