No sound via HDMI to ASUS Monitor

Wishmaster said:

If you right click the Volume Icon in the taskbar and choose Playback Devices it does not show a HDMI device like in my snip?

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If not, I would agree with WindowsStar. Possibly a faulty driver.
it may be worth downloading and re-installing.

No HDMI icon appears under playback devices. That has been the problem from the beginning. You can see from my previous post that my device manager shows that I have an Intel HMDI, but it doesn't show up in playback devices.

In an earlier post by P5 he suggested a driver to download but it was not compatible with my laptop. The Intel site says that I have a specialty driver and directs me to the Acer website, but the drivers there seem to make no difference when installed.

Could you point me to where I can find the driver for my laptop?

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p5bdkw said:

According to the DxDiag, your sound device vendor is 10EC which is Realtek,
so it's ok to install the Realtek HD audio driver.
However, it doesn't enable HDMI sound.

According to the DxDiag, your display device vendor is 8086 which is Intel.
So you should have the "Intel Graphics" driver installed.
The HDMI driver may be packaged with the Intel Graphics driver.
Intel probably packaged it there, just as ATI does with it's video drivers.
So you probably won't find a download for an Intel HDMI audio driver on the
Intel site.

You can try uninstalling the Intel video driver and install this driver.......
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...=2991&lang=eng

Thanks p5, but I try to install the driver it I get an error message saying "The driver being installed is not validated for this computer. Please obtain appropriate driver information from the computer manufacturer"

I'm guessing this is driver won't work for my computer? I didn't uninstall my Intel video driver because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find it again it something should happen. Could that have had any affect on this process? This is frustating [/QUOT


The appropriate driver can be known.look at your motherboard,you will notice an audio chip with brand and serial number.remember the number and the brand etc: realtek 172912.go download the original audio driver!!

May I offer a quick suggestion that worked for me. Right click on your volume icon in the bottom right and click on "Playback Devices." Click on the speakers icon, and then on "Properties." At the bottom click on "Device usage" and then select "Don't use this device (disable)." After I did this, suddenly I had HDMI sound. Then I added the speakers back, and HDMI remained. Hope this helps, but my setup might be a lot different than yours. However, I do have Realtek as my speakers driver, and Intel as my HDMI driver.

SOLVED!

I now get sound and video via HDMI through my Asus monitor. The way I got it to work was by updated my chipset driver to an older version.

Steps I took:
1) Go to Device Manager
2) Open Display Adapters and right click and select Update Driver Software
3) Select Browse my computer for driver software
4) Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer
5) I then was given a list of drivers and selected the oldest version (2/26/09)

I restarted my computer and plugged in the HDMI and the HDMI icon magically showed up when I went into Playback Devices.

I have updated the OP to show my solution. Thank you all for your help. You guys have a very good community here.

I bought a new Dell XPS8700 and the graphics card is GeForce GT 720 | Specifications | GeForce. I had an HDMI cable and the bigger end went into the back of the monitor but the smaller end was really small. I need to know what cable to buy so I can get the sound from the monitor before I go buy speakers. Thanks!
Mary