Hi all
Hopefully someone might be able to shed some light on a little problem I'm facing
I have a brandname PC (NEC, Packard Bell...same thing) which I'm setting up basically as an entertainment PC (ok, dont roll your eyes). It is an MSI mainboard produced specifically for the brand and MSI website has little to no useful info on the board.
Natrually I have no information as to the connectors on the mainboard of this PC but have concluded that the onboard SPDIF output connector comprise a 3 pin header GND, signal & +5V. I made an assumption that the output level would be a standard. When connected to my amp (all sheilded / coax cable) I do get all the right indications as to DD, DTS, PCM etc. and the audio all comes from the correct speakers (and sounds a damn side better than using the 6 analogue outputs from the shitty onboard amps through the 6CH input on the amp). However I do get faint clicks & pops...certainly not normal, and when I played back a recording I had made from my camcorder (in DD 5.1) there was at one point an audio dropout of a couple of seconds.
I havent dragged a CRO home yet to look at the signal, but am beginning to wonder as to whether the output is TTL instead of the typical SPDIF level. Anyone have any ideas? Maybe TTL to be connected to a toslink module?
Thanks in advance James