Connecting Digital Audio - HP Getting Getting Started Manual

Connecting Digital Audio

(Select models only)
If you have a sound card and you are connecting
your home stereo AV receiver via digital out, plug
the 3.5 mm stereo plug into the Digital Out
connector on the sound card. Connect the red RCA
stereo plug on the 3.5 mm Y cable to the AV
receiver's digital input connector. If the red RCA
stereo plug does not work, try the white stereo plug.
One of the connectors is not used.
To connect digital audio speakers:
1
Turn off the PC.
2
Connect the Digital Out connector on the back
panel of your PC to the digital input (S/PDIF)
on digital speakers or a digital audio system.
DIGITAL DIGITAL
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3
AUDIO OUT AUDIO OUT
3
Turn on the PC.
4
Plug in the speaker system power.
5
Turn on the speaker system.
To connect digital audio, your PC must include
a digital out connector on the sound card or on
the back panel. You do not need to connect
multichannel speaker outputs if you connect the
digital output.
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After the speakers are connected to the PC,
configure the audio software for sound output
for your PC model:
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S
■
■
Audio card with digital output and type
3 connectors: See "Configuring Audio
Output with Multi-channel Sound
Manager" on page 42. Follow the
instructions to enable digital audio output.
Audio card with digital output and type
6 connectors: See "Configuring Audio
Output with Sound Effect Manager" on
page 44. Digital audio output is already
enabled as the default.
Sound card: See "Configuring Audio
Output with a Sound Card" on page 47.
Follow the instructions to enable digital
audio output.
Configuring Speaker and Sound Options
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Type 3 is three
connectors
Type 6 is six
connectors
Type S is sound card
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