*Official* Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H Thread (NVIDIA 9400 mATX HDMI 8 channel LPCM) - Page 55

Have you considered the RAM? Try with one of the two sticks then with the other.

Yes I tried one stick of ram at a time, and different slots, no post at all.

Hey guys again, Nvidia has hidden new HDMI audio drivers in the laptop driver package. You'll have to download, and extract. They are 1.0.0.50, up from .41. Don't know if they work in all OSs, but .41 did.

Just to let you guys know, problem solved, there was a grounding issue with the case. I pulled the motherboard out of the case and it booted up, thanks to the advice of one of the fellow forum members.

Tested these with Windows XP Pro 32-bit : the result is worse than before. Not only do I still get silence with 44100 hz, but I am also unable to use Kernel Streaming at all (all I get is blank noise). DirectSound works fine, however (except at 44100 hz). Tested with foobar2000.

Hi,

just a short question to the GB Board. My System is a XP Sp3. After the OS System installation everythings's fine. The I installed all drivers and System Updates and now I have the problem that it tkes abot 30secs after typing in the username and passwort.

I also have the Zotac 9300 Mini_ITX Board and have the same problem there. You type in your username and password and the there's a delay of about 30secs. No warnings or errors just a blank screen.

Is that a common chipset problem?

Thanks and Regards,

Alex

Disable all network connections, then reboot.

Hi,

thank you very much. I can test it tomorrow and will do so.

So I do I understand you right that the network driver has a problem, or is it caused by hardware. Of yourse I need network to have access to my file server.

Thanks again and Regards,

Alex

Never seen this problem mentioned in this thread prior to you. Mine signs in right away.

It's just to pinpoint the cause of the problem. It's not about hardware or drivers, it's just that Windows might be waiting for something on the network during the boot which triggers a long timeout because it doesn't get it.

So it looks like I've been hit with the 'silent stream' bug pretty badly and its enough that I find it highly annoying. I have the board hooked up to a Denon 1909 and running the HTPC on Windows 7 64-bit. I've tried both HDMI and optical with the same results, the PC doesn't send a digital stream to the receiver until it attempts to output sound. This results in any sound under 1 second to not be played and a 1 second delay in playing anything else. I've tried every driver available for both the HDMI and Realtek digital out hardware.

I assume at this point there really isn't a workaround for this issue and all I can do is file a bug report to Nvidia and hope for the best?

The .50 driver is also included in the new nforce drivers for W7. I could not get them to pass-through DD or DTS, so i switched back to the previous version.

Hi,
I've got the same problem under Win7 - no bitstreaming of DD or DTS over HDMI. I am using .50 driver. Would you mind telling me which previous version you using and where did you get this?

Many Thank,
Tas

I've always had this with Nvidia HDMI. Ati actually does it too with their own drivers, that's why for those I'm sticking with the Realtek ones. These guys should really get their act together. The ATI driver for instance, which is NEWER than 2 versions of the Realtek one that work fine, has the unforgivable bug of switching rear/side surrounds in 7.1 systems. And actually, the .37 Nvidia driver, which is still listed as the latest for these boards, has that bug too. You need to get .41 to fix the bug, and that only comes hidden in the laptop package. I assume that .50 also fixes this, but it seems others are having other trouble with this one.

Hi,

The problem with the net is caused by a network drive. After disconneting this drive there's no delay.

With all other boards I had before (G31, G35, P35, G45, P45) I never had this problem. I do not know why but it takes about 40secs until the network is ready. It also takes pretty long until IP adress is received.
This is all under XP SP3. I did not test it with Vista or Windows 7.

Furthermore I have a problem when using the Nvidia HDMI Sound with PowerDVD9 (latest opatch 1531). (PowerDVD 8 works fine). The film starts and PowerDVD stops with an error, I then switched to the Realtek Soundcard and had no problem in the film. Back again to The HDMI device (I tested the driver 1.0.0.37, 1.0.0.41 and 1.0.0.50) and again an error which caused that I had to kill the process.

All in All not I have to say not very reliable for me (Under XP)

Regards,

Alex

Hi folks,
I'm considering using this mb for my HTPC build. Have a couple of questions to see if what i'm would like to do is possible:

I'm thinking of adding a discrete graphics card so i can also play games but i'd like to save power by using the onboard igp for everything else.
I see from earlier posts that depending on what you set 1st in the Init Display First in BIOS you can select which device the video goes out over. Does this mean that even if I select onboard gfx that the discrete card is still powered and idling? How would the fan be controlled in this case?
I see from this review that theATI 4670 only uses about 9w idling so looks like a good choice seeing as I only require 720p for gaming. If its to be believed...

My tv only has 1 HDMI and my amp only does pass through for audio over HDMI so I was thinking of connection the igp to the tv via hdmi and the discrete card to the tv via dvi. Can I set the audio to be over the onboard optical out so that I get audio for both options? Is it possible to also set audio to go over the hdmi at the same time so that if I don’t turn on my amp I can still get audio over my tv speakers?

I’m also thinking of using a Lian li PC-C36 Muse case. Are the pci-e\\pci ports compatible with the pci-e riser card for this case? The order of the slots on the board, moving from the edge of the board inward, need to be pci, pci, pci-e x16, pci-e x1.
/edit: uh oh. it seems like the crazy placement of the sata connectors might scupper the riser card idea...

Thanks for yer help!

Is anyone getting DXVA on MKV files with this board and Windows 7 RC1? I've tried playing with WMP12, using it's built-in decoders, and the playback is very choppy on high-bandwidth titles like Spiderman 3. It looks like it's trying to use DXVA, since the CPU usage is low, but playback is unwatchable.

Also with MPC-HC, the DXVA decoders aren't working. Playback is smooth, but CPU usage is 60-80%. When I disable the internal NON-DXVA decoders, it defaults to using ffdshow decoders instead (it should use the built-in DXVA decoders, but it doesn't).

My DXVA checker results look ok, so not sure what's going on...

anyone know where to get the latest driver for this borad??? does it fix any issue or have any improvement??

Im using the MPC DXVA decoders just fine on Win7 x64 7074. Just make sure to change the priority. @4% CPU usage with an E8400

Have you tried playing MKVs through WMP12? What kind of results did you get?

You can download the drivers from the nvidia site. Select nForce 9 Series as the product. You get seperate downloads for driver and HDMI Audio.

not directly, im only interested in playing through VMC, so obvioulsy it used WMP in a round about kinda way.

yes, they are MKVs

results above - 4% usage on a E8400. Was 50-60% without DXVA

Double checked with graphedit that the graphs were building correctly, so everything was working right

How did you change the priority? I thought the WMP12 (and hence 7MC) codecs were locked. Did you do the registry hacks to disable them?

not that im aware of, i just went and fiddled with the prioities in the registry

I have this MOBO, and everything appears to be working ok, but the black levels are not to my liking, but I wonder if anyone knows that one can program all the audio ports on the back of the Mobo can be programmed for 7.1 audio output?

I have receiver 3801 which will take 7.1 audio if it is broken down in individual channel like Left, Right, Central, Surrount Right, Surround Left, Side Left and Side Back and subwoofer?

I also had a problem with the black levels, but with this settings I'm very pleased now:

- video color: With the Nvidia Settings, Full 0-255;

- digital color format: YCbCr (but sometimes I select RGB and it's the same).

By the way, a few days ago I posted here that my motherboard died, but afterall it was just the RAM. Yey!

I recently got a BSOD on this mobo, using a E5200, Corsair 450w, and PC2 6400 Ram (4gb, tried 1 stick at a time). I am getting a continous series of beeps, that doesn't seem to follow the pattern of long or short beeps (power/gfx card issues) as the beeps are long then pause and short and pause and it is continous, with no POST. I am using onboard gfx.

It worked fine for 2 months with no issues and no hardware changes.

Any ideas?

A basic system doesn't need to draw nearly 200 watts. I've got a system based on a Conroe E6750, and the entire system uses under 40 watts at idle, and under 70 at load. That's using a GA-73PVM-S2H board with the onboard nvidia 7100 graphics chip.

I agree. I have a fanless 120 watt power suppy that is powering this board with one 3.5 HD, 2 sticks of RAM and an E8400 wolfsdale all in a LC19 case. Everything has been running stable for over a week. I want to add a discrete graphics card ( looking at the 4770's due to lower power draw) but that may be pushing it.

that was worst case senario, mine draws 150 full cpu...