[ecopsorn]

Hi there

I'm getting crazy on this one

I used to have a ZBox which was connected by optical cable to my Sony BDV-IT1000. I had perfect DTS sound, no problems there.
After my ZBox decided to stop working, I just finished my new own built HTPC with the AsRock H77.

Now I wanted to plug everything in the same way as I did with my Zotac Box, but I do not have any sound output, neither in Windows (trying to play sample music through media palyer) nor in XBMC.
I did install the sound drivers and strangely I do see the volume bar popping up and down in windows when I play music, but the sound simply doesn't get through to my speakers

Probably some of you guys can help me out here, any suggestions?

[DavidT99]

Presumably you are connecting the htpc by optical.........have you setup xbmc for optical and selected optical in windows as the default audio.

David

[ecopsorn]

well what should I say, it works now......

So everything was set up correctly, but the Sony BDV-IT1000 was the issue.

The system has 1 Optical and 1 Coax plug which are linked to the same "Function" = setting to choose the right plug. I used to always have both plugged in and use whatever device I just need than.
So when I unplugged the Coax, the sound was here and everything worked, es I plugged the Coax back in ---> it was still working!

So just a glitch I guess and it works now

thanks