Quick Setup Question for New Desktop
 

OK, there are many tech experts here... new HP desktop connected to a 22 inch monitor via HDMI cable. There are built in speakers on the monitor and so far, I haven't gotten a sound out of them. Originally connected to the computer with the green speaker cable that came with the monitor. Then I figured that maybe with a HDMI cable, I didn't need separate speaker cable to enable the monitor speakers.

But still no joy! Any ideas?

Make sure that:

1. YOur HP is sending audio along the HDMI cable.
2. Your TV has its speakers enabled while using the HDMI input.

although did not ask, run decrapifier to get rid of most of that free stuff.

then run tuneUp utilities to get rid of almost all the rest.

tuneUp utilities can probably install the speakers. it's free for a month.

I wonder what the documentation with the computer said about the speaker connections, and/or the monitor documentation. Also, if the monitor is capable of handling audio on the hdmi cable, what type of audio stream it's capable of decoding.

Depending on the graphics device, and how they wired it internally, there may or may not be audio available on the hdmi cable.

The green audio cable should have worked, but you may have needed to configure the speakers on the PC to get the right output turned on. I think it's usually done through the "sound and audio" control panel. You should probably take a look at that, as that's where any audio-related options would be anyway.

-David

The other thing that's worth trying is that if you have any known working computer speakers, perhaps on another system, maybe you can try them with the green cable also, on the new system. Headphones would work also for this, just to prove that the audio device is working.

-David