Help, no sound when linking tower to lcd tv!

[WeeOddBall]

I bought a dell 4500 tower to link to my technika lcd19/907 tv i bought the monitor cable and a sound cable to link it through the head phone sockets, the tower links fine but i cant get any sound through the tv from the tower. i know the sound on the tv is working as it also has freeview which works fine, can anyone shed any light on where i am going wrong?

 

dell processor is windows xp service pack 3

 

thanks

 

Margaret

[zinglebarb]

what have you connected the audio to?

 

I can not find an audio input on the TV

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Which connector on the TV have you attached the sound cable to Margaret?

[WeeOddBall]

i have the audio cable plugged into the headphone socket at the side of the tv and the other end plugged into the headphone socket on the tower. thanks

[zinglebarb]

headphone sockets are outputs not inputs you would need a pc audio input to get this to work with the VGA

[WeeOddBall]

i shall try this, thanks for your help. x

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Does this TV have a SCART socket?

 

If so you'll need something like this.

 

10m PC to TV Cable Kit Only 17.12 at TVCables

[zinglebarb]

you are relying on the gfx having tv output

[Guest Wolfeymole]

She seems to have hooked to the TV ok Zingy.

[zinglebarb]

I was assuming she did that via VGA ?

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Well obviously, but if a TV has the ability to receive a PC connection then it should have the ability to obtain sound from that source.

[Jelly Bean]

Hence an update of drivers and configuring software may help?

 

Such as NVIDIA control panel and windows display?

 

Now play nice I will get you both a football each.

 

:D

[zinglebarb]

Well obviously, but if a TV has the ability to receive a PC connection then it should have the ability to obtain sound from that source.

 

My Sony Bravia has VGA input but no PC audio in. It also does not have RCA input either so you can not assign audio for use when the screen is on that input. To use audio going into a scart you needs to connect the pc to the TV via svideo or composite.

[zinglebarb]

Hence an update of drivers and configuring software may help?

 

Such as NVIDIA control panel and windows display?

 

Now play nice I will get you both a football each.

 

:D

 

This machine is AGP 2/4 speed there is no way on the face of the earth you are going to get audio through it.

 

The only GFX cards that carry Audio natively are the newer ATI pci e graphics cards.

 

The TV WILL need PC Audio input to have audio and VGA together through the TV

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Let us discontinue discussion on this until OddBall has returned.

[mat777]

can you not adapt somwehow via a variety of connectors the screen signal from the computer into the yellow component of an rca, and the headphone socket into the red and white components. then stick them into the rca input.

 

use one of these for the picture, leaving the red and white cables unplugged

3M HD15M (VGA) to 3 RCA/PHONO (RGB) 26-1543 - PC World Business Online Store UK - Buy The Best Deals Online.

 

then one of these to take the headphone output of the pc to the sound rca input

StarTech.com - Audio cable - Female RCA to M ini-phone stereo 3.5 mm

 

messy, but it should work

[zinglebarb]

can you not adapt somwehow via a variety of connectors the screen signal from the computer into the yellow component of an rca, and the headphone socket into the red and white components. then stick them into the rca input.

 

use one of these for the picture, leaving the red and white cables unplugged

3M HD15M (VGA) to 3 RCA/PHONO (RGB) 26-1543 - PC World Business Online Store UK - Buy The Best Deals Online.

 

then one of these to take the headphone output of the pc to the sound rca input

StarTech.com - Audio cable - Female RCA to M ini-phone stereo 3.5 mm

 

messy, but it should work

 

 

If the gFX card has svideo or composite output then we will not have a problem sovling it by goint into scart lead

[Plastic Nev]

The simple way is to buy an adapter that will plug into the scart socket.

 

The adapter I have myself is an RCA and S Video type, there are two input sockets on that for left and right sound in to the TV. (plus a video RCA input as well as the S Video one)

 

All you need after that to get the sound from your PC is a lead with the corresponding left and right RCA plugs on one end and a 3.5mm Jack plug on the other to connect to the standard audio socket on your PC,

 

The video connection, of whatever type you are using, if it is still working OK leave it as it is.