My flatmate has an ASUS P5Q-SE2 motherboard, a gainward GTX-260, Windows XP. Had it a year and its ran rock solid. Recently it started hanging in XP and freezing, I did a memtest and couldn't see any problems. Ended up reinstalling XP as I couldn't see what was wrong with it, put a new BIOS on and updated all the drivers. Back to normal for a bit. But then today it blue screens again. 
Anyway he bought a 32" LCD and wanted me to set it up over HDMI, pretty easy using the nvidia wizards etc, I have no idea what res this 32" LCD is because its lower than 1280x720 and definitely not 1366x768, anyway that wasn't a big deal as you get the nice desktop resizing tools with the nvidia drivers, resized it so it looked ok. 1266xblah or something. very odd panel this.
So originally he had no sound through HDMI and I had to simply get the SPDIF cable out of the graphics card box and plug that from motherboard SPDIF header to the input on the graphics card, this was before we reinstalled, et voila perfect sound over HDMI when he was watching films on the 32" LCD.
Since reinstalling windows XP however, despite the fact its blue screening again, well has once, I cannot for the life of me get sound over HDMI, the graphics card itself doesn't have a dedicated HDMI port but instead dual DVI, and a header block that has a single HDMI connection, this then goes via HDMI cable to the LCD (obviously)
I can't see any options for forcing it to output over SPDIF and he's not always got the TV on, usually the 22" monitor so I still want analogue sound over that from the 3.5mm speaker jack.
I'm just boggled as to why sound over HDMI has gone again, and why the machine ran for a whole year like a rock, not a single freeze, and suddenly its started misbehaving. I've tried the virus scans/spyware bla bla before anyone mentions it.
Where should I go from here? I'm thinking either the memory is duff but I ran a memtest on it for a while, or the graphics card is maybe slowly dying, I just don't know. I feel kinda bad as I built it for him a year back, but its pretty much since he got the 32" LCD and started running dual monitors sometimes, that the problems started.
Another thing, as the LCD TV is a Bush model, for some reason it has no power button
you can only put it in standby or switch it off from the wall. As a test earlier I connected the PC just to the 32" LCD, and disconnected the main 22" monitor. .. still no sound over HDMI. ?
The hdmi cable gave me a slight shock as well even when the TV was in standby, I was wary of plugging it into the graphics card like this so I turned it off from the wall. Is it possible the TV and its dodgy standby mode has been plugged in while on standby and the resulting shock has fried part of the video card?
I just don't know anymore, cheers in advance for any suggestions.
Anyway he bought a 32" LCD and wanted me to set it up over HDMI, pretty easy using the nvidia wizards etc, I have no idea what res this 32" LCD is because its lower than 1280x720 and definitely not 1366x768, anyway that wasn't a big deal as you get the nice desktop resizing tools with the nvidia drivers, resized it so it looked ok. 1266xblah or something. very odd panel this.
So originally he had no sound through HDMI and I had to simply get the SPDIF cable out of the graphics card box and plug that from motherboard SPDIF header to the input on the graphics card, this was before we reinstalled, et voila perfect sound over HDMI when he was watching films on the 32" LCD.
Since reinstalling windows XP however, despite the fact its blue screening again, well has once, I cannot for the life of me get sound over HDMI, the graphics card itself doesn't have a dedicated HDMI port but instead dual DVI, and a header block that has a single HDMI connection, this then goes via HDMI cable to the LCD (obviously)
I can't see any options for forcing it to output over SPDIF and he's not always got the TV on, usually the 22" monitor so I still want analogue sound over that from the 3.5mm speaker jack.
I'm just boggled as to why sound over HDMI has gone again, and why the machine ran for a whole year like a rock, not a single freeze, and suddenly its started misbehaving. I've tried the virus scans/spyware bla bla before anyone mentions it.
Where should I go from here? I'm thinking either the memory is duff but I ran a memtest on it for a while, or the graphics card is maybe slowly dying, I just don't know. I feel kinda bad as I built it for him a year back, but its pretty much since he got the 32" LCD and started running dual monitors sometimes, that the problems started.
Another thing, as the LCD TV is a Bush model, for some reason it has no power button
you can only put it in standby or switch it off from the wall. As a test earlier I connected the PC just to the 32" LCD, and disconnected the main 22" monitor. .. still no sound over HDMI. ?The hdmi cable gave me a slight shock as well even when the TV was in standby, I was wary of plugging it into the graphics card like this so I turned it off from the wall. Is it possible the TV and its dodgy standby mode has been plugged in while on standby and the resulting shock has fried part of the video card?
I just don't know anymore, cheers in advance for any suggestions.
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