So now when I got the sound working properly, I would like to see a picture too! My intention is to get the video (DVD) picture on TV screen when the CCC is on "Cloned" mode. Now the Windows desktop and programs show all right on the TV screen too, but when I start a video (on what ever vi...

PCMCIA card with 4 x USB ports cost allmost nothing...
Easy sollution if nothing else helps...

Hi! I have a D1845 too. As old as yours... I see that you have allready tried the "final sollution" and reinstalled the OS, which I see didn't help. If the service got the USB ports working by updating the BIOS, try going in to the BIOS and "Load optimal defaults" and then "...

In case somebody wrestles with this problem, I found the sollution:

http://ac3filter.net/

Download, install and configure it (ac3filter) and you have multichannel PCM, DD and DTS sound in S/PDIF!

Getting desperate here... I installed the latest Realtek driver (WDM_A398) just in case it was the driver. It didn't solve anything, the problem persists with no changes. I'm becoming more and more sure, that the soundcard of this notebook/ these notebooks don't support DD or DTS sound from the digi...

I was so sure my VERY OLD D1845 is supporting 2GB of memory, that I ordered 2x1GB of PC3200 chips about one week ago. I'm expecting for them to arrive any day now... Interesting to see if they work. At least the chipset is supporting them for what I know, allthough Fujitsu says only 2x512 of PC2700 ...

OK...
I have tried with Windows MP11 and Nero showtime (DD plugin).
Not working... I get only 2 channel sound.

What on earth could work?

So that's about the question. How do I get surround sound out from the SPDIF connector? I have the correct OPTICAL cable. It's connected to the home theater correctly, but all I can get from it is stereo sound. No dolby digital, just pure two channel stereo! AC97 is configured for 4 speakers as far ...

Thanks for the link!
I see now...

OK... My point was, that the band width of the CPU front side bus was 6,4GB/s (800MHz). So what is the great idea to exeed that with the memory and gain nothing because of the higher latencies? Isn't the fastest alternative the nr. 2, where the bandwidth of the FSB and memory are the same (FSB: 800M...

OK... Nobody seems to approach this matter from this point of view, so here goes. Let's assume we have a computer with a 800 MHz FSB . We shall try tree different memory configurations, which are: 1. DDR2- 800 MHz 1GB memory in single channel. 2. DDR2- 400 MHz 2x512MB memory in dual channel. 3. DDR2...

Li-Ion batteries go dead like this: "snap".
U R sure your battery is in good fully working condition...?

If your battery is working, then it's once again the motherboard issue.

I had quite an interesting moment, when I installed the XP-pro on this machine. During the installation prosedure when it asked if I wanted to activate on line now, I clicked "sure yes", allthough I was 100% sure I was NOT connected to Internet. After that the installation program just rep...

Cris2d2 you just got mail...

Bluehair wrote:Thanks for clearing that up, indeed I haven't thought about this kind of "semi-shared" memory

Even though, I don't think the "Intel Extreme Graphics 2", as an integrated chip, features such a memory technology.

There you are correct!