*please help, getting a headache trying to get this to work

[Lord of Flies89]

Sorry I was just to lazy/frustrated to type all that nonsense again. See attachment...I used it to ask for help at a best buy...now I'm pulling out the heavy guns and asking here.

[NinJake]

So what's the problem exactly and what are you trying to accomplish?

[Ishnifan]

20 minutes ago, NinJake said:

So what's the problem exactly and what are you trying to accomplish?

Something about sound and monitors it seems, also nice handwriting

[Stu_Bear]

Does your monitor have an audio jack ?  I'd try plugging your speakers into it...which the monitor itself should be pumping out audio from what it receives thru the HDMI input...

[Lord of Flies89]

Yea my hand writing wont win any awards. So firstly my sound bar does not have a aux only the two HDMI and a optical port. I want to use a digital connection ie HDMI because i want to be able to use Dolby atmos or DTS:X which the speaker can only use that way. If i just wanted sound the Bluetooth is working with my pc even though there is a slight delay.

[Lord of Flies89]

I want to connect my sound bar to pc via hdmi cable to get access to extra speaker features.

[NinJake]

What motherboard do you have? @Lord of Flies89

[Lord of Flies89]

16 minutes ago, Stu_Bear said:

Does your monitor have an audio jack ?  I'd try plugging your speakers into it...which the monitor itself should be pumping out audio from what it receives thru the HDMI input...

you are right i am getting audio from monitor (it shows up on playback devices and its showing its putting out sound) but sound bar does not have an aux and i want to connect it via hdmi.

[Lord of Flies89]

1 minute ago, NinJake said:

What motherboard do you have? @Lord of Flies89

its a prebuilt Asus thing. got it on a nice second hand deal the whole pc. Problem is i cant update the drivers for any of the things. So i think using the onboard hdmi is out...i did try it and also didnt work so im working through my GPU.

[Lord of Flies89]

Just now, Lord of Flies89 said:

its a prebuilt Asus thing. got it on a nice second hand deal the whole pc. Problem is i cant update the drivers for any of the things. So i think using the onboard hdmi is out...i did try it and also didnt work so im working through my GPU.

to clarify i cant update motherboard drivers...gpu is up to date. I tried going to ASUS for this PC specifically and even intel for the display driver for i think its a i76700 but still couldn't install the driver...says something like my hardware does not match or is incompatible. (but that should only be problem on the motherboard side)...I left trying to figure out the motherboard and then tried working through my 1070ti GPU. I figured there is 3 more unused ports...i should be able to push sound through one of them.

[Lord of Flies89]

1 hour ago, Ishnifan said:

Something about sound and monitors it seems, also nice handwriting

Get sound on sound bar using hdmi to pc.

[Lord of Flies89]

1 hour ago, NinJake said:

So what's the problem exactly and what are you trying to accomplish?

Get sound on sound bar using hdmi to pc.

 

[Lord of Flies89]

15 minutes ago, Lord of Flies89 said:

its a prebuilt Asus thing. got it on a nice second hand deal the whole pc. Problem is i cant update the drivers for any of the things. So i think using the onboard hdmi is out...i did try it and also didnt work so im working through my GPU.

i think the pc is called this thing Asus G11

[Stu_Bear]

39 minutes ago, Lord of Flies89 said:

you are right i am getting audio from monitor (it shows up on playback devices and its showing its putting out sound) but sound bar does not have an aux and i want to connect it via hdmi.

what methods of connection does ur soundbar have ?  3.5mm jack input ?  You can get a spliter for ur monitor's 3.5mm output.  They sale them at bestbuy for < $10.  Have one from when I wanted to connect my powered sub and 2 monitors to my display's 3.5mm out...worked well enough.

[Lord of Flies89]

15 minutes ago, Stu_Bear said:

what methods of connection does ur soundbar have ?  3.5mm jack input ?  You can get a spliter for ur monitor's 3.5mm output.  They sale them at bestbuy for < $10.  Have one from when I wanted to connect my powered sub and 2 monitors to my display's 3.5mm out...worked well enough.

yea but like i mentioned i want to use the dolby atmos or DTSx stuff...idont think you can use that with a normal aux...needs digital signal. I know that you cant even get that to work over the optical cables...and besides my soundbar only has 1xhdmi in...1xhdmi out/arc and 1xoptical port...and then bluetooth that works...but gives latency

[HM-2]

Use optical from the motherboard. You still get 5.1EAC via that. 

[Lord of Flies89]

1 hour ago, HM-2 said:

Use optical from the motherboard. You still get 5.1EAC via that. 

dolby atmos doesn't over over optical...but at least it will be better than Bluetooth. I will look into that but i really want the atmos to work as well. 

[Lord of Flies89]

2 hours ago, Lord of Flies89 said:

its a prebuilt Asus thing. got it on a nice second hand deal the whole pc. Problem is i cant update the drivers for any of the things. So i think using the onboard hdmi is out...i did try it and also didnt work so im working through my GPU.

The prebuilt pc is called Asus G11CD and this is the motherboard i found. https://www.ebay.com/i/303671420213?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=303671420213&targetid=935431405813&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9010802&poi=&campaignid=10897989837&mkgroupid=106040609894&rlsatarget=pla-935431405813&abcId=9300403&merchantid=6296724&gclid=Cj0KCQjwy8f6BRC7ARIsAPIXOjhkgdGRJHaGxxP3lix6p2cZeLQsVG9-JTConGMD1fX_PRZYY4LyYdoaAq9bEALw_wcB

 

Dont think that will help, like i said i cant seem to update the damn drivers. If im to use the motherboard HDMI...and i need to use the HDMI to use Dolby atmos or DTSx.

[Throgmorton]

Try checking disconnected devices in the sound settings with HDMI connected direct to the audio device.. Right click on any device and you will see the option for disconnected devices. I attached a picture to help.

 

If that doesn't work, perhaps try using a HDMI splitter to send signal to both monitor and audio device simultaneously. This will hopefully trick the audio device into receiving audio as it being sent for the monitor. You may want to get a decent one so you don't get any weird audio artifacts or added latency. Look for a HDMI 2.0 splitter to give you some future proofing