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I connected my Surface via HDMI to watch some movies on the home theater system, but I'm only hearing sound through the Surface speakers. How do I get audio to go through HDMI so that I can use my nice home theater sound system?
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Hi all.
I found probably a solution. When I connected the HDMI I only heard the sound in the surface and at the sound devices box the HDMI option won't appear, so I get in into Device Manager and Right click on my Surface and Scan for HW changes, then the sound starts to listen on the Home Theater. I expect this probably works in most of cases like me.
Regards.
Greetings all,
Please contact the manufacturer of you television for furthers support and possible firmware updates. This feature works with other TVs.
Use the Sound applet in control panel to check what audio devices are installed. If you have a choice make sure the right one is selected.
With 11 pages on this thread and it is already answered few are going to see your question and have you read it through and looked at the possible solutions? If you have then it might be better to start your own question.
Detail what you have tried and what your hardware is, with laptops because everything is on the motherboard getting audio onto the HDMI is normally inbuilt but with desktops it could be different. Even with a desktop if you are using an integrated HDMI/sound card then that is the same as a laptop but if you have a discrete graphics/sound interface then that requires different settings.
I'm really frustrated with this as well. I almost had a surface sold to a buddy and then whammo, this happens. My problem is that it is showing:
Digital Audio (HDMI)
High Definition Audio Device
Not Plugged In
It looked like it did add a generic Non PNP display. I'm wondering if that's the problem. I wonder if I changed the driver to an HDMI display adapter, but where can I get that?
One way to check on this: With the HDMI cable connected from the Surface to the device you want sound from, in the Start screen bring up the Charms and type 'Screen resolution' in the Search box. Go to Settings, select Adjust screen resolution.
Does the device report as a display there? What type of display?
I'm really frustrated with this as well. I almost had a surface sold to a buddy and then whammo, this happens. My problem is that it is showing:
Digital Audio (HDMI)
High Definition Audio Device
Not Plugged In
It looked like it did add a generic Non PNP display. I'm wondering if that's the problem. I wonder if I changed the driver to an HDMI display adapter, but where can I get that?
One way to check on this: With the HDMI cable connected from the Surface to the device you want sound from, in the Start screen bring up the Charms and type 'Screen resolution' in the Search box. Go to Settings, select Adjust screen resolution.
Does the device report as a display there? What type of display?
It shows a Generic Non-PNP monitor.
I looked at Events and it looks like it was added yesterday.
The inf file is monitor.inf
When the cable is hooked up, the surface goes to a 4:3 with black bars screen while the TV is full screen.
Should I try to force a particular .inf through an update driver? If so, which one?
Can I attach an image here? I could show what it looked like in control panel.
Also, I meant to write that I plugged my HP TM2 win7 machine up with a regular HDMI cable (the surface was plugged in using a Micro HDMI to HDMI cable, so I was not using a 40$ MS adapter) and everything worked fine.
