<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org" target="_blank">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Philip Isaacs <<a href="mailto:showcasefloyd@gmail.com">showcasefloyd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Okay, so this is slightly off subject, but I've hooked up my Myth PC to my<br>
> LCD TV via a DVI to HDMI adapter. I then ran a single audio cable from the<br>
> sound card on the PC into the audio port in the back of the TV. The picture<br>
> looks great but there's a annoying hum coming from the TV now. It's pretty<br>
> loud too. I tried switching out the cables but I'm having no luck. Any<br>
> suggestions on how to fix this? I know it's not exactly Myth related but I'm<br>
> guessing maybe others have run into this issue.<br>
<br>
</div>You've touched off a small firestorm.<br>
<br>
Noise-free analog audio can be difficult to achieve. This is the sort<br>
of thing that digital audio was invented to solve. The simplest<br>
solution is to switch to a digital audio connection, either using hdmi<br>
or some form of spdif.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Eric<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Okay, these are great suggestions. I think it's a ground loop as well. I'm going to try putting the TV and PC on the same power strip and see if that helps. Thanks so much for the advice.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The reason I'm using a separate audio cable is because (as others pointed out) I don't have a video card that supports DVI with Audio.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks so much for the advice,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Floyd</div></div></div></div>