New Crosshair V Owner --- Need some help

[Tinicus]

Hello all! I'm a new owner of a Crosshair V mobo and i have everything running smoothly but I have some questions with audio.....

I'm currently having issues getting 5.1ch surround and needed some help.

My current Receiver/Home Theatre system is the Panasonic SC-PT480. (link below)

http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/SC-PT480?t=manuals&support#tabs

I am trying to get 5.1 surround in DD or DTS through the S/PDIF cable from the mobo to the receiver, now my question is how to I get this to work!? Do I need a dedicated Sound card (i.e. ROG Thunderbolt) or no? Doesn't the on board SupremeFX X-Fi 2 allow this automatically or is there something I need to do drivers/codec wise?

[rabbert_klein]

I may not have an exact answer because I'm using HDMI direct from my GTX570 but as someone who also uses a receiver instead of a normal PC speaker setup I might be able to help.

Make sure that you go into Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Manage Audio Devices -> Highlight your active audio device and click configure.

Ensure windows is set to 5.1, press next, on the next screen check the boxes for the speakers you have then press next, and on the last indicate which are full range. I personally set none and let my sub worry about the low end.

This will force Windows to encode the signal at 5.1 or at least it did for me. I use my receiver itself to perform the 2.1 to 5.1 conversion on music and such.

[Tinicus]

rabbert.klein wrote:
I may not have an exact answer because I'm using HDMI direct from my GTX570 but as someone who also uses a receiver instead of a normal PC speaker setup I might be able to help.

Make sure that you go into Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Manage Audio Devices -> Highlight your active audio device and click configure.

Ensure windows is set to 5.1, press next, on the next screen check the boxes for the speakers you have then press next, and on the last indicate which are full range. I personally set none and let my sub worry about the low end.

This will force Windows to encode the signal at 5.1 or at least it did for me. I use my receiver itself to perform the 2.1 to 5.1 conversion on music and such.

I have already tried all of that. When I go to configure my speakers for either my HDMI cable running from my radeon hd 6870 or from the
toslink optical cable I am unable to choose any configurations! It is set to a two channel stereo and I can't change it......
I know 5.1 is possible with this receiver and speaker system through toslink as I had it set up before on my old rig b4 i got the rog CHV. NEED HELP!!!!

[Flare]

Is the BIOS sending HD audio signals in HDMI mode?

You can check in the Advanced>Onboard Devices Configuration>SB HD Azalia Configuration>S/PDIF Out Type