Never found a working combo ended up going dvi to vga to HDMI as many vga adapters have a 3.5mm aux jack that integrates to HDMI on the other end. It looks ridiculous but everything works.

Have you tried setting the Nvidia audio as the default playback device? I can't that's the whole problem it exists only in hardware not as a playback device. I've uninstalled every audio driver except the Nvidia one to demonstrate. Can you confirm your audio works through a Displayport connection …

Is there a reason you want audio from the video card so much? Is this a situation where the only speakers are on the TV? Is there no stereo-in or optical available? It's a situation where I'd really like to be able to switch between my 3 desktops by changing inputs on my monitor only. My monitor …

If I used a displayport to HDMI cable would that let XP detect it as a displayport? That might solve the issue of it not looking for audio.

Ok I appreciate the help.

Don't use HDMI on XP with the 980. Use DVI or displayport. If you insist on HDMI then IIRC max is 1920x1080 @60hz , anything past that results in the issue you mentioned and I believe a color issue. You always won't have working scaling..... If you want HDMI then you'll need to use an earlier …

I'm using 355.98 display driver and as that seemed to be the most recommended. I modified the inf for the 980ti and it installed fine. My problem is I don't have audio and it won't let me choose Nvidia high definition audio as my audio device even though it is visible in device manager and says it …

Thanks guys, but now I’m facing this problem on AFUDOS "CMOS layout difference between system ROM and ROM file has been detected. AFU recommend adding /B, /C commands of your original input commands." Then there is the option of accept, force or quit, don’t know what to do at this point, I had …

Award has universal flasher utility for Windows. This helped a lot I googled that tool and it brought me to https://soggi.org/motherboards/bios-update-flash-utilities.htm. However, I ended up using AMI AFUWIN 4.48 because the stock bios updater when you pull bios off asrock's official website are …

I have some questions about updating my bios. I have the beta bios 2.20a as a .rom file and I have gathered I can update it with a floppy disk using the flash tool bundled with original asrock bios Dos installation available on asrocks site. However I don't have a floppy drive or floppy disks. …

https://soggi.org/motherboards/asrock.htm 2.20a Beta bios is the modified one