Inspiron 620 how to connect to 5.1 surround ?

Hi Thorsten,

It appears the integrated sound on that system only supports stereo, not surround. You would need to add a sound card with optical or digital out in order to send a surround signal to your receiver. What you need depends on the capability of your receiver.

it seems so, but why is dell telling, that the Inspiron 620 has 5.1 HD sound ?

this was the invoice.......

Where did you see "5.1 HD sound"?   I looked at the Dell sales site and several other sites with a google search and none say anything about surround or 5.1 sound.

210-37962 Inspiron 620 MT BTS : CPU Core i5-2310 / 1.5TB / 6GB / NV GT 530 / DVDRW

/ No WLAN (59)

1 390,32 390,32 SR

200-96995 D116244 1 SR

213-14448 Processor : Intel Core i5-2310 Processor (2.90GHz, 6MB) 1 SR

340-27034 Ship Accessory : Documentation 1 SR

340-27035 Resource DVD : Inspiron 620 Diagnostics and Drivers 1 SR

370-21704 Memory : 6144MB (1x4096 + 1X2048) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel 1 SR

385-11203 Integrated 8-in-1 Media Card Reader 1 SR

400-23722 Hard Drive : 1.5TB Serial ATA (7200RPM) 1 SR

429-16119 Optical Drive : 16X DVD+/-RW Drive 1 SR

490-13227 Graphics : 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 1 SR

510-10420 Sound : Integrated 5.1 High Definition Audio 1 SR

555-14074 Wireless : No Wireless 1 SR

619-35710 Operating System : W.European MUI Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64 Bit) -

(Eng, Ger, Fre, Dut, Ita)

1 SR

630-14825 Software : MS Office 2010 Starter 1 SR

650-14031 Antivirus : McAfee Security Centre 15 Month Subscription (with Recovery CD) 1 SR

754-76771 Standard Service - 1 year of coverage included with your PC 1 SR

754-76772 No Warranty Upgrade 1 SR

755-10533 No Accidental Damage Support 1 SR

759-11367 DataSafe Online Backup 2GB ? 1 year licence (BTS) 1 SR

799-17916 Inspiron Desktop 620 BTS Order 1 SR

817-10126 Mouse Included in Wireless Keyboard and Mouse option

I have what appears to be the same problem. Mine was advertised as having 5.1 surround HD, even called them to ask where the sockets were as in the photo they are not there. Was told all 3 audio sockets on the back would give 5.1, For Mic, you could use the one on the front. But now that my PC has arrived, it does not seem to want to work in 5.1???

I'm going to ask around. That does not seem right to me.

Dell Has a way of doing it with specific speaker sets.

YH784 - New Dell 5650 Multimedia 5.1 100 Watt Speaker System

Dell 5650 Speaker System - Documentation

://support.dell.com/support/edocs/acc/p62507/

support.dell.com/.../p62507