garbanzo Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 I got a new monitor, and now everything is broken. My old monitor used DVI, and I had my TV hooked up to my PC via HDMI. If I turned on my receiver, it would automatically mirror video from my PC and it would pick up the audio. Easy. Now my new monitor is also HDMI, and my video card only has one HDMI output. If I hotswap, my PC doesn't always recognize my receiver as a new audio device, so sometimes I have to restart with my PC connected to my TV (via the receiver) in order to get sound. It's a pain in the ass. So I bought an HDMI switch. It switches video fine, but since my monitor doesn't have audio, it doesn't send audio when I switch my my receiver. So I'm in the same boat as before, but now I push a button and restart instead of hot-swapping a cable. So I bought a digital audio cable. It works great! But my receiver won't let me create a source with HDMI as the video input and digital as the audio input. So the cable doesn't do me much good, other than just streaming audio to my receiver. Is there a simple solution I'm overlooking? Am I asking too much? Bah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 get a hdmi to dvi adapter then everything should be back to normal. http://www.amazon.com/Importer520-Plated-Female-DVI-D-Adapter/dp/B0035B4LJM/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1442179819&sr=1-2&keywords=hdmi+to+dvi+adapter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbanzo Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 I read that those don't support 2560x1440 so I can't use it with my monitor. And if I use it to send video to my receiver, I will be in the same boat as I am now since DVI doesn't carry audio. Unless I'm completely wrong, which is entirely possible :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Sorry I should have read closer I assumed that you were using in a dual monitor setting and using one DVI and HDMI at the same time just that your new monitor didn't support DVI so you couldn't connect both at the same time. I see now that isn't the case. I use an adapter like that but for vga to dvi since my video card is only dvi and hdmi and my TV doesn't support DVI my second monitor is connected by an Asus WiCast (a short lived and relatively unknown wireless display device(It works great though)) which requires my HDMI port. You're absolutely correct about the sound HDMI is the only cable that does audio and video unless there is something newer I haven't heard of yet What type of audio card does your PC have? Could you connect like a 3.5 wire to rca audio y cable from the PC to the receiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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