Fit to Windows 8.1? Once installed, 'Digital Output Device (HDMI)' appears on Sound Property?
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HDMI cable carrys sound and video one cable for both so it will show up in sound propertys
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My Main Suggestion Would Be To Obtain A Computer Without Windows 8 Try An OS Like Windows XP Or XP Pro As long As it Has SP3 (Which ,If Necessary You Can Download SP3 From Microsoft's Wen Site)
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Sound may not work unless you go into control panel in Windows and change the default sound device to the newly attached monitor.
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Herb - I am using an HP laptop with this monitor, connected via HDMI. It did not occur to me when I bought the monitor that it does not have built-in speakers, so I am using external speakers using the audio-out connection. Your question prompted me to double-check my sounds. I don't use many apps, but Windows 8 sounds work (including those associated with a theme), as do sounds in Quicken. I also noticed today that the sound icon in the task bar splits into two settings when I am set up this way. I can adjust the volume on my laptop as well as the volume through the external speakers - separate toggles. Short answer; I don't appear to have any sound issues using this monitor/HDMI.
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DVI doesn't send sound like HDMI. Have to have external speakers hooked directly up to the source. Had the same exact issue, unfortunately had to get a cheap pair of external speakers.
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Yes, I was able to do audio over HDMI (over optical cable too). Once you have connected a HDMI cable, right click over speaker icon in system tray and then click in the "playback devices" menu item. In the list of playback devices select your target device and click "Ok" button. My operating system is Windows 8.
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no i ran across the same problem and forgot that dvi does not carry sound, only hdmi does. so you would have to find another alternative or use a separate cable for the sound
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to the answer below in my case I am a HDMI out of my computer into surround sound amplifier then to speakers
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I haven't upgraded to windows 8.1 yet, so I'm not sure how to solve that issue. Sorry.
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go into the sound options on your computer (which you can access in your control panel) then set your sound default as HDMI, might fix your problem.
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It is very simple. In VISTA, go to Control Panel, Sounds and then check the option to pipe the sound to HDMI
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Sorry. I messed up. It works great with Windows 8.1. With the bluray software, not included
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I use it with Windows 8.1 and have not had any issues - however, I have two monitors so I do not use the monitor jacks.
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I run Linux on my PC, so I can't address the Windows issue. And I don't think I even used the USB interface at all ... I just used the "line-level" output, and plugged that directly into my PC's sound card, and that worked perfectly.
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Try to go through your setup again to see if that resolves the issue. If that doesn't help, you'll need to find an authorized repair facility to send it in for repairs as I don't believe the HDMI ports are a user-replaceable item.
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Yes, but in my case i had to manually select my sound device as the tv to which my card was connected to via hdmi. On windows 7 you can do this through the program 'sound' which can be found in the control panel or you can search sound in the start menu.
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I don't know what HDMI even means! I sent the Lenova back only because I could not manage Windows 8. I got another computer instead with Windows 7. Sorry for my total lack of help!
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Rick, try going to your Sound controls from your "Control Panel" buttons. I recently connected to a TV through my HDMI and I find that I have to manually switch the sound there from "Speakers" (which is my computer sound) to "NVidia Hi-Def Audio" in order to get sound to the TV if I'm trying to watch something on Hulu over there. One annoying glitch though: The switch only allows for you to change your "Default" settings (be sure to hit default if "apply" by itself doesn't work... that's what I have to do.) so you then have to go through the procedure each time you change. Annoying, but workable if you don't have to do it a whole lot. - MJM