Hi all, I'm hoping for some help setting this up. I could probably do it if I faffed around long enough with trial and error, but I am hoping other people might have done this recently and might be able to save me a lot of hassle.
I have an HTPC set up under my HDTV. Graphics card is a HD3470 and for sound I am using the on board sound chip on an "Abit A-S78H, AMD 780G" motherboard. TV is a Sony Bravia KDL-40W4000.
I was hoping the graphics card would have an HDMI socket on it, but it didn't, so I went out and got a DVI to HDMI lead. I took that in to HDMI 2 on the back of my TV. (I have cable TV in HDMI). I got a picture straight away when I switched to HDMI 2, but sometimes I find that when I switch away and then back again, the picture on the HTPC doesn't come back up, and I'm stuck not being able to control the HTPC.
As for sound, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. I took a lead from the little jack on the back of the PC, and the other end of the lead was little red and white jacks, and I put them in to composite. Sound came out when I changed the TV to Composite, but I couldn't figure out how to get the picture to display HDMI2 and for it to use Composite at the same time. So far I can only get it to do one or the other.
It is really hard to trial and error this because I keep losing the picture every time I switch away from HDMI2 on the TV. It goes to a black screen and I can't get it back (except one time when it came back when I turned the volume knob).
Anyway as you can see I haven't got much clue what I'm doing so any help will really be useful to me. Thanks![]()


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