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HDMI Sound Problems

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Problem Overview You connect your HDMI cable and the sound still plays from your laptop. You try disconnecting and reconnecting but the problem persists If you are like me and still rely a lot on your HDMI cable for movie watching on your tv, then probably you have run into this issue If you are used to this set up then for some reason it fails, it becomes really frustrating. Recently, my windows 8 PC started misbehaving for no particular reason. Hours later and frustration mounting by the minute, I decided to look into this problem for everyone out there Solution Number 1 Head over to the "Control Panel"-"Hardware and Sound", Under Sound, Go to "Manage audio Devices". You should see the above window with your active audio devices, if your TV brand is listed, highlight it and choose the "Set default" option. Audio should start streaming to your TV Solution Number 2 If you are like me and the above solution did not work for yo