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I am troubleshooting for a friend and narrowed it down to the ram controller. He has an z170 board so its skylake or the generation before. It wont start with a 3 short beep - beepcode which means that something is up with the ram. The ram sticks are totally fine and different ram wont do the trick. The only thing left is the ram controller which is either on the cpu or the northbridge. I can't find any useful information online which is why i am asking here. I dont want to tell him to buy a new motherboard only to realise that he needs a new cpu.

I hve the page file managed by windows so that i can be shure to not run out of ram. You never know when it is going to happen.

Thank you, I can definetly live with than and i am probably going to buy two long hdmi cables to connect over hdmi.

Thank you so much, it finally works now (in media that has a 5.1 track). In the next days i am giong to set my pc up next to my reciever to try connecting via hdmi to see if I can get it in any application.

okay, lets try that

If you need any information regarding the reciever just ask. I looked at the spec sheet and user manual too many times

oh yes forgot that. i've got an Asus strix 1070ti

I have an Onkyo tx-sr604e which is set to Dolby PLIIx (the alternative is DTS Neo:6). I have connected it to my pc (creative soundblaster audigy rx) via spdif, the cable is about 3m long. I have an 5.1 surround setup around my desk which is properly set up on the reciever side. At the moment only the two channel pcm stream is sent to the reciever (I read online that i need a DDL soundcard to make that work which is why i created this thread) and the only surround I can hear is upmixed by the reciever.

Sooooo I should use ffdshow and connect via HDMI? And it doesn't work over spdif? sry for the many questions but do you have a good source where I can test if it works?

I've never heard of that. I am going to try that

I have one of THOSE mainbords... It's an ASUS Z370 plus-gaming. It has very bad audio. so I bought a creative soundcard (bad decision) a while ago. Because I can connect my headset in other (better) ways i just need a soundcard that is able to do DDL. And yes, I am going to try HDMI from my GPU.

That motherboard has no RGB capability at all. depending what case it is you can probably control the RGB with buttons on the case.

I couldn't try it yet because I don't have a cable that is long enough. And it doesn't work from my laptop (may also be because it's a shitty one)

Couldn't it also be because that the ram timing were changed? Maybe he could also just reset them as a 6th step

I just noticed that my soundcard does not have this feature. I need that feature to get 5.1 sound on my reciever. Can someone recommend me a cheap soundcard with this feature?