No HDMI Sound on Diamond Radeon 2600XT

[Chuck Forsberg]

This card has an HDMI socket between the DVI and VGA
sockets. The box claims built-in HDMI with Multi-Channel
5.1 surround audio.

The ATI help system gives a procedure for selecting the
card as the sound device but the output selection is
stuck on the motherboard audio device. Rebooting with
the motherboard audio disabled in the BIOS yields no
sound device at all.

Is there a way to get this card to output sound through
the HDMI connector? Using XP Home.

 

[Steven]

you may need to go to the realtek site and get he ATI HDMI sound driver -- I
needed to do this for sound on my 3870

sounds works over HDMI, but I went back to the SPDIF output of my
motherboard sound as it sounded much better than the PCM multichannel stuff
over the ATI HDMI feed

 

[Chuck Forsberg]

you may need to go to the realtek site and get he ATI HDMI sound driver
-- I needed to do this for sound on my 3870

sounds works over HDMI, but I went back to the SPDIF output of my
motherboard sound as it sounded much better than the PCM multichannel
stuff over the ATI HDMI feed

So far I have not been able to get the SPDIF to output more
than two channels. Currently I am using 8 channels of analog
but the switching is more than my wife can hack,

 

[Guest]

"Built-in HDMI with multi-channel 5.1 surround audio". I have the ATI Radeon
HD 2600 PRO.

Yeah right! I could never get that to work. Yes, I bought the special
HDMI/DVI adapter and HDMI cable, connected to my brand new HDTV and enabled
the Digital Output Device (HDMI) in windows, NO sound at all. And my HDTV is
set to auto on the HDMI port to receive audio.

Also, There is nowhere on the ATI/AMD website you can download a file for
this function.

 

[Dima]

Here's the driver for HDMI audio,
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

Another driver (havn't tried this one)
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Change your sound card in Control Panel Multimedia, Playback / Audio to ATI
HDMI (someth like that).
Hope it helps.

"Built-in HDMI with multi-channel 5.1 surround audio". I have the ATI
Radeon HD 2600 PRO.

Yeah right! I could never get that to work. Yes, I bought the special
HDMI/DVI adapter and HDMI cable, connected to my brand new HDTV and
enabled the Digital Output Device (HDMI) in windows, NO sound at all. And
my HDTV is set to auto on the HDMI port to receive audio.

Also, There is nowhere on the ATI/AMD website you can download a file for
this function.

 

[Steven]

The ATI HDMI driver from the realtek site worked for me in VISTA HOME
PREMIUM with a 3870 card

I switched back to the SPDIF sound stuff on my motherboard as it worked and
sounds better that the multichannel PCM on the HDMI

the ati cards do not seem to bitstream the audio so I could not get it to
light the dolby digital or DTS lights on my receiver

PC solution will not yet bitstream any of the HD codecs via an HDMI
solution -- which needs to be HDMI 1.3a compliant

Here's the driver for HDMI audio,
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

Another driver (havn't tried this one)
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Change your sound card in Control Panel Multimedia, Playback / Audio to
ATI HDMI (someth like that).
Hope it helps.

 

[Guest]

That ATI HDMI Audio driver on the ATI website is for ATI Radeon HD "2900"
Series for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition (I don't have those
operating systems). The HDMI Realtek download hangs my computer, forcing me
reboot.

I have the ATI Radeon HD "2600" Series and the operating systems I have is
Windows MCE 2005 Dual booted with VISTA HOME PREMIUM 32-bit. I can not get
it to work in both operating systems and both are fully updated. I also,
followed the instructions carefully to enable the HDMI audio.

It just doesn't work. : <

Here's the driver for HDMI audio,
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

Another driver (havn't tried this one)
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Change your sound card in Control Panel Multimedia, Playback / Audio to
ATI HDMI (someth like that).
Hope it helps.

 

[Guest]

The ATI HDMI driver from the realtek site did not work, once installed it
hangs my computer forcing me to reboot. My HDTV is HDMI 1.3a compliant also.

I have the ATI Radeon HD "2600" Series.

The ATI HDMI driver from the realtek site worked for me in VISTA HOME
PREMIUM with a 3870 card

I switched back to the SPDIF sound stuff on my motherboard as it worked
and sounds better that the multichannel PCM on the HDMI

the ati cards do not seem to bitstream the audio so I could not get it to
light the dolby digital or DTS lights on my receiver

PC solution will not yet bitstream any of the HD codecs via an HDMI
solution -- which needs to be HDMI 1.3a compliant

 

[Dima]

Those drivers for XP OS. but for Vista it looks like you don't need a
driver.
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=29037

Do you have Catalyst 8.1 installed?
Do you have Microsoft UAA driver installed on your XP? It should come with
vista already.
I'm getting HDTV very soon, so it's kind of interesting if you can get it to
work.

 

[Guest]

As for the ATI/AMD Knowledge Base (737-29037). Yes, I've already look at
this many moons ago and followed the steps carefully. Still no HDMI audio
sound on my HDTV.

Yes, I do have the Catalyst 8.1 installed on both ViSta and Win MCE 2005.

Yes, I do have the Microsoft UAA driver installed on my Win MCE 2005 OS,
This was installed automatically after installing the Radeon HD2600 series
video card.

As for Vista, The "High Definition Audio Device driver was also installed
automatically.

 

[Fred]

As for the ATI/AMD Knowledge Base (737-29037). Yes, I've already look at
this many moons ago and followed the steps carefully. Still no HDMI audio
sound on my HDTV.

Yes, I do have the Catalyst 8.1 installed on both ViSta and Win MCE 2005.

Yes, I do have the Microsoft UAA driver installed on my Win MCE 2005 OS,
This was installed automatically after installing the Radeon HD2600 series
video card.

As for Vista, The "High Definition Audio Device driver was also installed
automatically.

Just wondering if anyting is showing up in that Vista Control Panel Sound
configuration panel as disconnected.
Right click on a vacant area of the Sound Window and select show
disconnected devices.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I right-click on the Volume icon in the system tray, select "Playback
Devices" and I set the "Digital Output Device (HDMI)" to Default. Done this
many times. Rebooting doesn't even help with the "Digital Output Device
(HDMI)" Set at Default.

 

[Guest]

...It also says its working, but, no audio.

Yes, I right-click on the Volume icon in the system tray, select "Playback
Devices" and I set the "Digital Output Device (HDMI)" to Default. Done
this many times. Rebooting doesn't even help with the "Digital Output
Device (HDMI)" Set at Default.

 

[Dima]

So in Vista, you selected the Digital Output Device (HDMI), then clicked on
"set default".
There in Properties, under Supported Formats, I see DTS Audio, Dolby
Digital, Microsoft WMA Pro Audio.
And also sample rates.

Have you tried playing DVDs with Dolby or DTS tracks? Maybe that's all this
port can support.

 

[Guest]

Tried that also, No sound.

So in Vista, you selected the Digital Output Device (HDMI), then clicked
on "set default".
There in Properties, under Supported Formats, I see DTS Audio, Dolby
Digital, Microsoft WMA Pro Audio.
And also sample rates.

Have you tried playing DVDs with Dolby or DTS tracks? Maybe that's all
this port can support.

 

[Chuck Forsberg]

That ATI HDMI Audio driver on the ATI website is for ATI Radeon HD
"2900" Series for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition (I don't have
those operating systems). The HDMI Realtek download hangs my computer,
forcing me reboot.

I have the ATI Radeon HD "2600" Series and the operating systems I have
is Windows MCE 2005 Dual booted with VISTA HOME PREMIUM 32-bit. I can
not get it to work in both operating systems and both are fully updated.
I also, followed the instructions carefully to enable the HDMI audio.

It just doesn't work. : <

I downloaded an ATI HD audio driver and was able to get audio
out the 2600's HDMI connector. Just stereo, no multichannel
as promised on the box. That's useless, I can get stereo
out of the SPDIF output. I want multichannel without having
to use audio cables in a geek's delight kludge.

 

[Dolfin.King]

I've got another related problem here

My PC do not recoganise the 'ATI Radeon 2600' as a sound device. When
inserted first time it was dected as a VGA card and ATI Radeon HD 2600
diver was installed, then both my monitors were dected and dirvers
where automaticaly installed and finaly a PCI device was dectected and
'Microsoft UAA High Definiton Audio' driver was installed.

In my device manager I cannot find any such thing as 'ATI HDMI Audio
Device' nor under Sound properties-> Playback devices....however my
onboad sound device Realteck97'AC is visible in both Device manger and
Sound properties and wroking fine.

Under sort by connection on Device manager the hardwares connected on
PCI-E slot are ATI Radeon HD 2600 and Microsoft UAA High Definiton
Audio.

I get first class HD video signals on my TV, but I would love not to
use the audio cables to connect ot TV on top of the HDMI cable....

Was my pc meant to dectect anymore hardware devices when the card was
inserted first time.

MY CONFIG
Windows XP Home SP2
Catlyst Controller 8.1
ATI HDMI Driver Installed
Microsoft UAA High Definition Audio Driver Installed
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Driver installed