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XFX 4890 Audio over HDMI issue

yer i think it needs all the pins too, it would make sense since its doing all the features of the regular video AND then audio too!

No i havent seen these anywhere as a cable, only the adapter im afraid. And even then it was hard to find one in the UK. the only official seller i could find was from XFX, other sites were in america, or there is ebay, but youre never quite sure with them...
 
xfx 4890

i sent xfx an email too to recieve my adapter i hope i t doesn t take ages for them to deliver...
let s cross fingers and hope both mine and joey' s work .. :D
 
it hasnt worked :( unfortunately ive got a train to catch, so I wont be able to investigate further tonight. will have another look when i get back tomorrow and see if i can get stuff working!
 
well its not going well, not at all.. :( still no audio through the adapter, and i went and bought a blu ray over the weekend to try it all out. Not only did the bundled OEM software (powerdvd9) from OCUK NOT allow blu ray playback; but i had to pay 40 quid to see that hdcp isnt allowed on my current connection and need to switch to ironically hdmi or vga... sigh... im wondering if this hdmi cable is causing issues now, and im tempted to go and get a 15 quid one from argos tomorrow to try it and see if it works... sod it, ive ****ed £x amount up the wall, whats some more...
 
Does the adaptor have a full set of pins.

What version is the cable. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. I also found that cheap cables are not very good. (when I used my DVD up scaler it could not send the info fast enough and got lots of stuttering lip sinks etc). Got a better cable of the MM a long time ago.
 
yer it does have the full set of pins, and afaik (from the amazon listing) it is a 1.3 cable. i didnt get a chance to go get a new one today so ill try it tomorrow, and with a bit of luck lol. but im not holding out much hope :(

btw what is MM?
 
ah i see, i guess im too new to get access to that xD

i have a TV at home i can test it on (im at my uni address currently) but thats gonna be in april. Thanks for the offer to test it tho! I just wouldnt be able to live without my pc not working and being cut off from the internet email and all the 21st century nonsense that we used to but cant live without now!

If I cant get it to work with another HDMI or another TV then maybe I'd have to send it back to XFX?

I know i'd get my answer from trying with another TV, but you dont think it could have anything to do with my monitor do you, and how it handles HDMI? Im using a samsung 2333HD currently
 
Clairvoyant said:
Have you selected the correct output.

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it doesn't need to be set to default as long as you tell the program your using to use the hdmi.

For expl
i have a game runnin on my monitor with sound from the game coming out of my pc speakers using the on board sound
as well as watching a film on my HD tv with the sounds from the film coming from the tv using powerdvd set to use the ati hdmi sound
 
yah, unfortuantely i dont have any option as it says ati hdmi is not plugged in. jus out of interest, how do u tell powerdvd to use the specific output? i've got my audio driver allowing two seperate streams to the front and rear speaker outputs; how do you change which one it uses?
 
joey2cool said:
yah, unfortuantely i dont have any option as it says ati hdmi is not plugged in. jus out of interest, how do u tell powerdvd to use the specific output? i've got my audio driver allowing two seperate streams to the front and rear speaker outputs; how do you change which one it uses?
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go in to settings then audio then change speaker environment
hdmi.jpg
 
Th3D0n said:
it doesn't need to be set to default as long as you tell the program your using to use the hdmi.

For expl
i have a game runnin on my monitor with sound from the game coming out of my pc speakers using the on board sound
as well as watching a film on my HD tv with the sounds from the film coming from the tv using powerdvd set to use the ati hdmi sound
Click to expand...

Cool

I didnt know that. Thank you.
 
THE SOLUTION!

Anyone who has read this thread from the start will know the issues i've had! and well today, i solved it! and the problem? the HDMI cable. The one i bought from Amazon was listed as HDCP compatible, turns out, NOT.

So I bought a cheap one from Argos that was listed as HDCP compatible and plugged it in. Lo and behold, ATI HDMI audio Ready! The jubilation was excessive to say the least! xD

I've since done some testing, and for any others with the problem, i have found:

You need the supplied ATI HDMI - DVI adapter; supplied with most cards, bar the XFX version apparently. For the 4890, and I imagine the rest of the 4xxx series, the adapter should have either: Rev. B / 6140063500G / 6140063501G stamped onto it; an ATI logo also stamped onto it; and be a grey colour.

Now the pin arrangements (don't worry about the rest of the adapter for now):
The Rev. B and 6140063500G will look like this:
hdmii.jpg

(Thanks for the image Clairvoyant!)

The 6140063501G will look like this:
195155178846ef344703851.jpg

(Taken from internet)

I have both of these adapters, and have tried them both, with the old and the new HDMI cable. Neither would work with the old cable, however both now work with the new one! Therefore I can conclude both will work if you only have 1 or the other. (But I reiterate, they MUST be the ATI official ones!)

Enabling the audio over HDMI is then simply a matter of going to playback devices and selecting it as the default (if you wish to always default audio to the HDMI) or from within your individual software set it to the output your require in the audio settings.

Thanks to everyone that has helped me to get this problem sorted and fixed, i'm extremely grateful :) especially Clairvoyant and Kingy666!
 
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