GX600 digital sound output

So i have a gx600 notebook it works great and i love it, but recently I got tritton ax360 5.1 surround sound headset. They can plug into the three audio jacks and work okay although I dont have the use of the microphone on the headset or the surround sound processor that came with. Supposedly the headset works really well with a digital soundput, better than with most soundcards processing it. The audio processor box has 2 different digital inputs, one plug for optical and the other plug coaxial. The realtek audio manager and the details of the gx600 indicate that it has a sp/dif output, a digital output yet I dont know where it is on the laptop how to use it and so forth.
Can someone tell me how I would convert whatever digital output on this laptop is to digital rca coax or optical?

I'm not 100% sure about this but I think it needs a special optical S/PDIF cable or adapter that plugs into the haedphone jack. The manual is pretty poor on that subject.
I have a portable DVD player that has optical S/PDIF output that requires such a cable.
Your best bet would be to contact MSI about that.
http://ocss.msi.com.tw/
Edit:There are TOSLINK to 3.5mm mini-jack adapters for that purpose, see >> here <<

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Generally that means your headphones' plug is not exactly to dimensional stands and has jammed the internal connector in the jack to the "mute" position. The plug's tip-to-shoulder distance seems to be the variable.
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Presumably someone else has seen this already, but I could not find any such info in the FAQ or here.
I recently connected the SPDIF output to the stereo.
The sound output there, while good, is slightly offset from the analog output. When running with both analog and digital output active, the digital works as an "echo".
More annoying, when playing video, this means lips and voice are not in sync.
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Hook,
All this is using the SPDIF output:
I just checked and the delay is greater (and is probably what you are noticing) when you enable the Dolby Digital encoding. If you output Stereo, that is PCM, it will be much smaller. The DD encoding/decoding process takes time.
Sill, you will notice some delay anyway WRT the analog, as your receiver has to process the PCM signal a little, but not as much as the DD signal.
If your problem is lip-sync, set your DVD player to output directly to SPDIF and not to 6 channel audio. Just think about it:
DD track ->SoftDecode to 6 channel->MCP encode to DD->SPDIF->Receiver decode to 6 channel
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Short sounds (email notifications, system sounds, etc) usually don't make it through the digital output (mini-toslink optical cable) that connects my new MacBook Pro to my stereo.
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It seems that the digital-out goes into a sort of "sleep" mode after a minute or two of silence, and then requires about 2 seconds to wake back up after a new sound is played. For instance, if I hit PLAY on a song, it will chop off the first 2 seconds of the song.
Not a big deal for music listening. But shorter sounds like email notifications are completely silenced by this 2-second delay.
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Has anyone found a solution to this problem? Of course the obvious solution would be to simply hook the system up with analog cables, but I love the digital cable for its clarity and immunity to interference (my office has lots of electrical hum).
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Smacker,
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OK, sorry it was that I had to switch audio device under plackback.
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