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Hello - I just got a new Acer pc, the X1200 running Vista. It's a low priced model but it had an HDMI port I planned to use so I could connect my pc to a nearby TV. Sadly it didn't work - here's what happened. When I first connected to the TV I got NO picture or sound. So I disconnected the small monitor at my computer desk by unscrewing it from the back of the pc. Once I did that, the picture came to life on the TV. But still NO sound at all. So I was only able to get video on the TV at the expense of disconnecting my computing monitor and unable to get any audio at all no matter what I tried. Now I did this with 2 pairs of HDMI cable with the exact same results - so it's not a cable issue.
I'm a little new to Vista - so maybe I'm missing some Monitor/Sound setting that may correct this - but I did go to Control Panel/Sound & tinker with some various settings but nothing helped. In this window it did show this Realtek HDMI Output Icon & it showed "working" as it's status.
Now I suppose I could get some pc audio out splitter to RCA in adapters for the sound to run to the TV & use the HDMI for the video only. But this seems like a crappy option since I'll always have to disconnect the computing monitor & of course HDMI is supposed to push audio & video.
Sadly this pc also has very few manuals available & tech support was absolutely useless...Please help if you can Thank you!!! D:D

Hello - Me again. Actually I'm really starting to dislike this pc, I think I will return it. If anyone has a pc where the built in HDMI works just fine with the TV - please post the make & model for me so I don't repeat this mistake. Thanks a bunch, Deca:)

Me again - got it working - no further action required (Thank God!) Happy Holiday! D:)

how did you get the audio to work? I've been trying to get it to go through HDMI and even updated the BIOS and NVIDIA drivers as well as realtek. What did you do??