nVidia nForce Realtek audio SPDIF is not detected or working

[Guest]

I have a nForce4 GA-K8NF-9 motherboard with a built in Realtek audio.

The trouble is it worked fine with MCE 2005, but when I moved to Vista the
SPDIF is no longer functional. I have audio, but only 2 channel through the
regular audio jack. I have looked all the settings in the Gigabyte UI that
Vista installed, and the Speaker control panel, but nothing allows me to turn
on the SPDIF jack.

I went to the Realtek site to get new drivers, but Vista didn't want to
install them because it said I already had current audio drivers.

Any help?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Do you have the latest nForce drivers from the www.nvidia.com website?

 

[Guest]

I just got it to work by installing the latest RealTek drivers.

Now I'm trying to figure out why my external USB HD is no longer being
detected after getting the S/PDIF working.

Arg!

 

[Guest]

Thank you.

I think many of my problems were trying to run Vista64, so I moved back to
Vista32. The most recet RelTek driver got my SPDIF working, and I see I can
have regular audio out or SDIF out; however, you can't have both active. When
I was running XP Media Center I was able to have both active so I can rout my
audio out on the back panel to different devices in my rack. Now I have to
make as choice which device I want to use.

Is this a bug or a feature that you can only choose one type of output?