How do I get surround sound to go from my pc out from my Sony hometheater 5.1 surround system

[lucadem1313]

So I've been using a Sony DAV-TZ130 DVD home theater system for a few years in our basement. I had it hooked up to an xbox 360 E and was getting 5.1 surround perfectly for gaming and movies and such. I recently got a mid level PC and wanted to hook it up, but all I can get is stereo with the RF and LF speakers. I was hoping I could get surround sound so if anyone can help anything is appreciated. Thank you!

 

[getochkn]

https://esupport.sony.com/CA/p/model-home.pl?mdl=DAVTZ130&template_id=1&region_id=3&tab=manuals#

That's the manual. There is no way to input 5.1 sound in it. It only has a stereo L/R input, and thus would only ever input.



"Press SURROUND repeatedly during
playback to select a surround audio output
mode. The selected mode appears in the
front panel display.
 “MULTI” (A.F.D. MULTI): When the
source is 2 channel, sound is output from
all speakers.
 “STANDARD” (A.F.D. STANDARD): The
system discriminates the sound format of
the source and presents sound as it was
recorded/encoded.
 “DOLBY PL”(PRO LOGIC): Performs
Dolby Pro Logic decoding.
 “2CH ST” (2CH STEREO): All formats are
downmixed to 2 channels."


You were probably in MULTI mode before and now you're in 2Ch. Switch to MULTI mode for fake surround. It's all the device will ever do with an input.