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    Audio via HDMI on a 1530 running Win XP

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by caitsith01, Apr 14, 2008.

  1. caitsith01

    caitsith01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    I'm relatively new but have found this forum extraordinarily helpful in choosing my new XPS 1530 system and getting it running very nicely.

    I have installed Windows XP on the machine, and it runs perfectly for almost everything.

    However, no matter what I do, I cannot seem to get any audio working via the HDMI port. Video works well (looks brilliant on an HDTV), but without sound this is sort of useless to me for most things (movies, games, etc).

    I gather that in Vista, this problem is solved by selecting a different audio device (i.e. HDMI/SPDIF rather than the laptop's own speakers). However, in XP this option does not appear anywhere. I assume this is because the drivers have been 'borrowed' from a previous laptop with the same sound hardware which did support XP officially.

    Has anyone resolved this problem? Is anyone running Windows XP with HDMI on this laptop (or any of its HDMI capable relatives) and getting sound via the HDMI port? If you do have sounds working via HDMI in XP, what drivers are you using for your audio?
     
    caitsith01, Apr 14, 2008
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