HDMI audio behaving strangely

[Vashwsa]

I just swapped from a dell micro atx to an asrock full atx board. Clean install of windows.
GTX 1050ti
i5 4460
Asrock H97 Board
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157511

The audio through HDMI on 3 different cables cuts out almost immediately after playback begins sometimes. Sometimes streaming video from the web the audio will work until I open a new tab. Any ideas?

 

[Wulffz]

Strange, try reinstalling the audio drivers.

I personally use seperate speakers, connected with the audio jack on the back of the motherboard. Always works without an issue. That and audio quality is soooo much better than the one from my monitor. Maybe that's another option for you.

 

[Vashwsa]

@wulffz I have a strange setup. My PC is connected to my TV and my TV is what pushes the audio to my surround sound. But my other pc and this pc before upgrading worked fine as well.

 

[Wulffz]

Then you'd have a bigger chance of solving this by looking into the drivers or settings of your TV.

Or as I do, can't you connect the surround sound to your computer instead of your TV? Then you'll send the video from your PC to your TV and the audio from your PC straight to your surround sound. Maybe this workaround will solve it.

 

[Vashwsa]

It's not just the surround though. It's an old cheap surround sound with no easy way to connect it to computer. But the issue happens through the tv speakers or the surround sound anyway

 

[Wulffz]

Might be because of the onboard sound of your new motherboard then. It's the only think that you recently changed in your setup. If drivers don't solve it, then I'd say looking into a seperate soundcard could do the trick.

 

[Vashwsa]

I've never thought that deep into it. So does the onboard sound of the motherboard feed the sound through the GPU?

 

[Wulffz]

Yes the GPU is purely for graphics but when using sound over HDMI then it comes from the onboard audio first. If that audio chip is worse than on your previous motherboard then that might be the problem.

 

[Vashwsa]

Man I hope that's not the case. May just send all this back and go back stock.

 

[Wulffz]

If your stereo system would've been easier to connect to your pc then you could've gotten away with buying a new soundcard..
But certainly try looking into settings before returning stuff. You might stumble upon one silly setting that ruines the audio. I'm not an expert but trying doesn't cost you anything!

 

[Vashwsa]

I'm not giving up yet haha. Just seeing if I was overlooking something simple.

 

[Vashwsa]

Okay I have noticed that whenever the problem occurs videos are extremely laggy but the system itself isn't slowed. Just the video playback.

 

[Vashwsa]

Okay the problem was ram in the wrong slots.