CougTek
Hairy Aussie
One of my customers has an HP Media center PC m8200n, which uses this motherboard. Notice the 3 pins white SPDIF connector in the very bottom of the board, about in the middle of the last PCI slot.
The guy wanted an HDMI output, so I installed him a MSI N9400GT-MD512H graphic card. And I planned to connect the coax audio output from the motherboard to an audio amplifier so he could listen to movies playing on his PC on his home theater kit. But I have no sound (I selected the digital output as primary audio output in Vista's audio control panel). The amplifier receives no signal from the computer.
Reading on the Net, it seems I need to connect the two pins SPDIF audio connector from the MSI GeFarce card in order to get sound. It's absolutely ridiculous, but there it goes. Unfortunately, the connector going to the motherboard on the MSI card is like the connectors made for, let's say, a typical front panel connector to the motherboard. It doesn't fit in the 3-pins SPDIF connector of the POS ECS motherboard HP used for that shitty box.
I haven't found a two-to-three pins SPDIF connector on the Net.
I'm scratching my head about this one.
The guy wanted an HDMI output, so I installed him a MSI N9400GT-MD512H graphic card. And I planned to connect the coax audio output from the motherboard to an audio amplifier so he could listen to movies playing on his PC on his home theater kit. But I have no sound (I selected the digital output as primary audio output in Vista's audio control panel). The amplifier receives no signal from the computer.
Reading on the Net, it seems I need to connect the two pins SPDIF audio connector from the MSI GeFarce card in order to get sound. It's absolutely ridiculous, but there it goes. Unfortunately, the connector going to the motherboard on the MSI card is like the connectors made for, let's say, a typical front panel connector to the motherboard. It doesn't fit in the 3-pins SPDIF connector of the POS ECS motherboard HP used for that shitty box.
I haven't found a two-to-three pins SPDIF connector on the Net.
I'm scratching my head about this one.