*Official* Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H Thread (NVIDIA 9400 mATX HDMI 8 channel LPCM) - Page 30

Originally Posted by TimA

Does anyone have the issue of swapped rear and back surround speakers in a 7.1 setup? When I play test tones/files, the rear sound comes out the side speakers and the side sounds come out the rear speakers. It seems to be a Vista issue from what I've read in various threads, but I haven't seen a solution other than setting Vista to 5.1 and letting your AVR do the 7.1 work.

Does a workaround exist for this problem? I haven't found one yet.

Tim

Originally Posted by RamanRB

Guys, it is mine first post while I've been watching the thread since October (when it was 'I've decided to wait for 9300/9400...').

I've ordered this mobo and ready to start playing with it next week or so. But I'm seriously confused would it be possible to send 5.1/7.1 LPCM over HDMI? I love to play FLAC encoded multichannel tracks at MKV/M2TS remuxes, etc.

After all, as TrueHD decoder almost (?) ready in MPC-HC it would be a must to hear that as 7.1 not as 2.1 as HDMI will be the only one connector to my Yamaha 3800 receiver.

I also curious about color profile I need to choose considering that Yamaha cut 0-255 to 16-236 (due the bug in their 2007 models... 3900 addressed this I guess).

Thank you!

Originally Posted by LBDiver

Does anybody know if the issue regarding elevated black levels when switching between SD and HD DVD playback has been fixed with the latest drivers?

If not does the DVI to HDMI cable fix this or is there still a EDID conflict causing it to change?

Third, if neither of the above fixes it, and I ran DVI direct to my plasma, since my Pioneer has a DVI input, that should stop the EDID sendback correct? Then would it be possible with the panel connected via DVI, to send the audio via HDMI to my receiver without it re-triggering the same issue?

Originally Posted by Andy o

7.1 works for the most part (I'm assuming the 9400 works the same as my 9300 Asus board), besides the surround rear/side issue that is mentioned right above. This would not be a problem in MPC-HC, because that great little program has an audio switcher option that lets you map the correct channels, though you'll have to do it manually, but only once.

5.1 works just fine. 0-255 and 16-236 is selectable in the Nvidia properties. I haven't had issues with it. If your receiver is cutting the signal to 16-236 though, you might get everything that's not video (photos and websites, for example) cut at 16 and 236 too.

Originally Posted by haste

gtx 260 install shots.

those right to left angle sata cables did the trick...no modification to the heatsink shroud required...

Originally Posted by SPtheALIEN

Amazing! Where did you get those right angle connectors? The ones I keep finding still stick out too much.

Originally Posted by RamanRB

Andy, are you sure you pass real 5.1/7.1 LPCM to receiver and not "upscaled" stereo? I mean if according to manual LPCM over HDMI is 2.0 only there is possibility for MB to downmix original 5.1/7.1 stream to 2.0 and then upconvert it to 5.1/7.1 according to settings chosen... Call me crazy, but I'm really confused (and no, I'm not noob, I'm fine with *nix, have rich Windows experience, do manage web-, db- Linux/BSD servers, etc.)

Originally Posted by Andy o

Yes, I am sure, but bear in mind that I have both an Asus P5N7A-VM with the 9300 mGPU and a laptop with the 9200m GS video card. The 9300 mGPU is fundamentally the same as the 9400 on the board of this thread, so I'm assuming they work pretty much the same (from reading the posts here as well as other info). But also, the main reason many people are buying these (9300 and 9400 mGPU) is just because of their 7.1 LPCM capability. So you don't have to worry about it. These boards do pass multichannel LPCM.

One thing, though. The Nvidia desktop dedicated cards, like a 9400 GT, 9500 GT, or 9600, etc., do not do it. Blame it on Nvidia, who name their cards very confusingly. The laptop 9200, 9300, 9400, 9600 cards do do multichannel LPCM!

Originally Posted by farbox

Hi all!
Longtime lurker, just registered to see if i can contribute something back for a change!

Got this board, took me two bloody weeks to be able to get AHCI working!

Here are the issues:
1 BIOS is very very strange; even when u set it to boot from CD (i think it tries to boot from IDE CD-see below), it tries to detect harddisks and fails and stops, if it doesnt find an OS, or a properly formatted disk. This drove me nuts!
SO the way to do it is to F12 at startup and select cd as the immediate boot up device! NOTE NOTE: do not select the first CDROM option, if u have a SATA CD. After many tries, i realised theat the first option (CD ROM) is for IDE CD. in my case my SATA CD drive was the last option, and labelled as TSSCORP (drive is a Samsung ) or somehting. Not very descriptive! SO if u cant boot from your sata cd, check this method! See if there is an unfamiliar option somewhere near the bottom of the list.

2- Re SATA drivers. this was my first sata board, and boy did i need to learn things! On IDE emulation in BIOS all is well, BUT some sata ports wont work, so you NEED AHCI in bios to enable all ports. After tons of blue screen crashes (007 error, which means XP cant find the sata drivers) here is how i did it. (sorry about the bad formatting of the info below: basically use a working pc to download the driver file from GB website, copy files as mentioned below onto floppy disk, then attach a floppy drive to the GB board, and use the above disc during F6)

1- set bios to ahci
2- boot from cd as explained above
3- use F6 on xp install
4- get your floppy drive out (yeah tell me about it, i had to find one, and a floppy disk from god knows where!) and get the SATA driver from the GB drivers WEB page for this board. I couldnt use or understand the ones that came in the MB disk.
5- Extract the downloaded file, and copy all the extracted files to the floppy. If u move the file on to the floppy, then extract it as suggested, the disc becomes full and some files wont get copied! Mine was missing the OEM.TXT file first time!
6- carry on the install as normal.

And all should be ok! hopefully! One more note, I tried a slipstreamed XP install, with SP3 and other sata drivers, but that didnt work either. it seems if you have other slipstreamed sata drivers, F6 doesnt work (somewhere in the install txt file, it only refers to the slipstreamed drviers, and wont recognise the F6 drivers!!!!)! So either slipstream the nvidia drivers, or use a virgin xp install disk and do the F6 business!
This whole thing drove me nuts, but im glad ive done it now! I had loads of problems, with the install wrecking the boot sector of the hardisks, and getting ntldr missing etc errors. But if you do the f12 at boot, you should be able to get past most of the issues.
Hope this helps someone out there!

Originally Posted by RamanRB

From what I understood GA-E7AUM-DS2H it is the one which having issues with 5.1/7.1 LPCM! That's why I've asked you about that...

Originally Posted by grittree

They aren't supposed to line up with the openings. All plug in cards have an offset bracket.

Originally Posted by skomes

Can you elaborate? Google gives me nothing. Do matx boards not line up with the slots?

Originally Posted by jamesmil

I too have the side/rears reversed issue (Windows 7), hope this gets fixed. The other somewhat annoying HDMI audio issue is that silence = no audio to my receiver (Onkyo 876) causing a short delay each time a sound is played (typically "miss" short sounds, for example)

Originally Posted by skomes

Can you elaborate? Google gives me nothing. Do matx boards not line up with the slots?

Originally Posted by Reku

I have a 15 inch touch screen connected using the VGA out and my receiver/plasma is connected to the HDMI out. This worked fine with the XP installation, but Vista has not been able to get it right. I turned the computer on without the receiver powered on and Vista now refuses to acknowledge HDMI is plugged in after I turn the receiver on. I left the receiver on and restarted the computer...still nothing. I can see my receiver in the Nvidia control panel and choose it as the 2nd display, but it will not stick. The screen hiccups a bit like it does when you try a new resolution, but ultimately unchecks the receiver. I have tried disabling and enabling NVIDIA HDMI in the audio connections area, but that does not work. Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by Darin

Can someone with one of these setups (and w/o a separate dedicated graphics card) run this compatibility test to see if they list the 9300/9400 integrated graphics as being compatible with GeForce 3D Vision?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by anywhereanytime

Just catching up on this thread - this mATX board DOES have firewire on the rear? Any issues or just works like any firewire I/O?

Thanks ... sorry for the dumb Q but I am ready to pull the trigger on this board, I tried searching and it appears the answer is YES.

Thanks,

Scott

Originally Posted by Ermot

I ran the compatibility test and the integrated 9400 GPU failed.

Originally Posted by grittree

Easiest thing to do is just look at any PCI or PCIe card. You will see the bracket is not in line with the card. ATX or uATX doesn't matter, since any card works in either.