Hi there, I was wondering if anyone can offer any help for me setting up my new pc please. Iv just bought the following spec pc to replace one of about 5 years old. Mainly i use it for surfing the web, downloading music and films to watch. I have the pc connected to my 42 inch philips lcd tv and also connected to my pioneer ax3 home cinema amp (via 3.5mm jack to stereo imputs).
AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Black Quad Core Processor AM3 (3.20GHz, 8MB Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 64-bit - English
Midi-Tower ATX Chassis + 550W PSU + CardReader - Silver
ASUS M2N68-VM Mainboard, AM2+ with integrated HDMI/DVI/VGA Graphics - MATX
4GB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM - (2x 2GB)
1TB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive with 32MB Buffer [upg
Blu-Ray Combo Optical Drive (BluRay read, DVD and CD read and write)
1GB ATI HD4670 Graphics accelerator - DVI, DirectX 10.1 PCI Express 2 [upg
Multi-Format Memory Card Reader -(52-in-1 Internal)
7.1 High Definition onboard sound card - for 8 Channel Cinema sound
Logitech Cordless Keyboard & Cordless Optical Mouse
Free Microsoft® Works® 8.5 + Limited Microsoft Office Trial
Free Cyberlink Video Editing Suite - 7 titles (oem)
12 USB 2.0 ports (12 USB 2.0 ports (6 on back I/O, 6 on board) - ASUS M2N68-VM
Network Ready Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000
So here are the problems I have if anyone can offer some solutions / advice I would be very grateful!!!
1. Sound - Ideally I would like to connect the pc to my home cinema amp via optical toslink but when I connect it in this way no sound comes out. When I swop the connection to 3.5mm jack to stereo phone the sound is fine. Any ideas? Are there any settings on the PC I should be changing to get this to work??
2. If this is possible via optical I assume this will then stream standard 2.0 and 5.1 audio from dvd / blueray into my amp? I currently have and will be using cyberlink dvd9 for movies which i think i need to upgrade to ultra in order to be able view bluray?
Any ideas or comments would be a massive help, Thanks in advance.
Oh im running vista if that helps.
cheers
zoidburg
AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Black Quad Core Processor AM3 (3.20GHz, 8MB Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 64-bit - English
Midi-Tower ATX Chassis + 550W PSU + CardReader - Silver
ASUS M2N68-VM Mainboard, AM2+ with integrated HDMI/DVI/VGA Graphics - MATX
4GB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM - (2x 2GB)
1TB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive with 32MB Buffer [upg
Blu-Ray Combo Optical Drive (BluRay read, DVD and CD read and write)
1GB ATI HD4670 Graphics accelerator - DVI, DirectX 10.1 PCI Express 2 [upg
Multi-Format Memory Card Reader -(52-in-1 Internal)
7.1 High Definition onboard sound card - for 8 Channel Cinema sound
Logitech Cordless Keyboard & Cordless Optical Mouse
Free Microsoft® Works® 8.5 + Limited Microsoft Office Trial
Free Cyberlink Video Editing Suite - 7 titles (oem)
12 USB 2.0 ports (12 USB 2.0 ports (6 on back I/O, 6 on board) - ASUS M2N68-VM
Network Ready Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000
So here are the problems I have if anyone can offer some solutions / advice I would be very grateful!!!
1. Sound - Ideally I would like to connect the pc to my home cinema amp via optical toslink but when I connect it in this way no sound comes out. When I swop the connection to 3.5mm jack to stereo phone the sound is fine. Any ideas? Are there any settings on the PC I should be changing to get this to work??
2. If this is possible via optical I assume this will then stream standard 2.0 and 5.1 audio from dvd / blueray into my amp? I currently have and will be using cyberlink dvd9 for movies which i think i need to upgrade to ultra in order to be able view bluray?
Any ideas or comments would be a massive help, Thanks in advance.
Oh im running vista if that helps.
cheers
zoidburg
