Tekmazter

Let me try and explain this ... when you're using your HDMI input on your TV, your TV is going to be taking audio from the HDMI interface only. Since you're using DVI which doesn't carry audio and running that to the TV you're not going to get anything out of any other audio ports while you have the input of HDMI selected.

What you need to do is get a receiver and wire the audio out from your PC to that. Then hook that to your speakers

In my case I have a Windows Media Center box with an HDMI out on the video card. I run that directly to my TV. HOWEVER, I wanted to leverage my high end creative labs card for audio out. So, I disabled the audio driver on my HDMI out on the PC and instead use my Creative Labs card. Out from my PC all audio goes to a Sony receiver which I have some decent mid range speakers and a sub hanging off of.