HDMI problem, no more analog signal from the soundcard?

well this is different.
where a million users have trouble getting their HD Audio interface working that way that it may offer sound at their display device in extraordinary great quality, i face a totally different problem, since my HDMI (only) equipped TFT does not have sound capabilities at all.
So i want to use my legendary old Speakers or my headphones in the analog output at the soundcards rear end.

But for some reason Windows XP concluded that HDMI is the one and only device, and shuts down everything else the very moment the windows welcome sound is played for a short moment on the analog jacks... nice

I checked everything, got newest drivers, even installed Windows multiple times and put an extraordinary old crappysoundcard™ into my PC just to figure that XP kind of hijacked my Audio in order to put it to an incapable device.

I would love to have an answer from someone with some insight what's going on here, since i run out of ideas

2008-04-06T13:58:42Z

sigh
so obviously it is like noone wants to talk about
The Audio signal is encrypted all the way up from its source to the display ... and you can have it there and thats it.
This might render my headphones useless .. .thanks again world for a standard noone needs like that

d3v10u5b0y2008-04-06T15:41:44Z

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Try opening the control panel and going to Sounds and Audio Devices and open the Audio tab. Under the Default Device section, drop-down the box and select the output your speakers are using as the default sound device.