Once you ve plugged the hdmi cable into the videocard open the windows xp control panel switch to classic view if that s not your default double click sounds and audio devices click the.
Audio cable from laptop to sound system.
Plug the 1 8 inch stereo plug into your sound card s speaker jack.
Optical cables will usually work with high end modern speakers.
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Variety to connect to a sound system if you are unable to buy an audio interface at this time.
Buy a cable that will allow you to use your laptops primary headphone output of the 1 8 in.
The first method that you can apply to connect laptop to surround sound system is the use of hdmi cable.
If you have a cable satellite box blu ray dvd player or another external source device and you have an external audio system such as soundbar home theater in a box system or home theater receiver it is best to connect the audio output of those source devices directly to your external audio system.
Locate your computer s audio out port.
Optical a pentagonal port.
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If using a home theater receiver see if your pc has multi channel outputs typically used for a powered pc surround sound speaker system.
Some common audio out methods include the following.
On desktop pcs this port is typically on the back of the cpu box while imacs have a 3 5 millimeter headphone jack on the back of the monitor.
If your laptop is having the dvi output you can use the dvi to hdmi adapter.
My computer has the 3 plugs blue green and pink and i read the manuel and found out that the sound cards is a 6 channel sound card but i need to find.
If it doesn t you have to open the sound card s manual.
Hopefully your sound card has all its jacks labeled so that you know which hole does what.
Then run the extension cord between your computer and your stereo system.
Connect one end of the hdmi cable with the hdmi port equipped on your laptop.
If so connect your pc to that hdmi input via vga or dvi to hdmi adapter to access video and then connect the audio output s of your pc to the analog audio input paired with that hdmi input.