HDMI kills audio

Hey folks. I have an Asus laptop running windows 7 Home Premium. It has an HDMI out that works perfectly, however, after using the HDMI with my flatscreen, if I disconnect it, I have to restart the laptop in order to get the laptop audio to work again. It kills both the laptops speakers, and it's headphone jack. I checked through the audio settings after using the HDMI, and I didn't see anything that suggested the audio was disabled. Again, if I restart the computer everything works fine again.

 

The HDMI sound is an audio device and as such when you use the HDMI cable it disables your computer's other sound device. Rebooting w/o the HDMI cable connected defaults back to the computer's regular audio device.

My computer has onboard sound using a RealTek audio chip but as I also have an AMD/ATI HD5850 video card with HDMI connections I also show an AMD High Def Audio Device in my Win 7 Device manager in the Control Panel along with the Realtek High Def Audio Device.

Sam

 

Yes, what you are seeing is normal behavior.

 

So is there any way I can revert it back to my regular audio without rebooting the computer?

 

Right click the volume icon in the task bar and select playback devices and choose your onboard audio, should revert it without rebooting.

 

Bought lenovo 780 17.3" laptop for karaoke. hdmi to hdtv disables headphone to mixer/amp. Want video on tv, music to beringer mixer. How to do?

 

You need to start a new thread, but you use be able to specify your music output separately in your audio program.

 

Solution: I bought a video converter. VideoSecu, about $30. Picture to HDTV, sound to mixer/amp!

 

Coulda done it for free, but ok!