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| Thread ID: 46234 | 2004-06-17 11:22:00 | Speakers with headphone socket | supergran (108) | Press F1 |
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| 245447 | 2004-06-17 11:22:00 | When I purchased my S5020AN Presario puter a few months ago, I could plug headphones into the speakers while playing cd's, and hear the music. I reformatted back to factory settings, now the headphones will not play from the speakers. Sounds dumb I know, but with the puter in the lounge, and hubby likes watching tele, it is normal for me to just plug into speakers, and is very frustrating that it won't work now. I know I can ring compaq, but thought I would try here first. I have NOT changed any plugs etc, just reformatted, and checked all sound settings, and can't find anything muted. Speakers work fine, just not the headphone hole. | supergran (108) | ||
| 245448 | 2004-06-17 11:44:00 | Try plugging in to the headphone socket on the front of the CD/DVD player. Did you load all the motherboard drivers, assuming onboard sound, or sound card driver if it's got a dedicated sound card. Could be just running off the standard windows drivers at the moment although I imagine they everthing you needed would be on the Compaq CD. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 245449 | 2004-06-17 21:43:00 | If the headphone jack is in the speakers, then surely this would be a hardware issue? After all, the speakers just plug into a 3.5mm audio jack on the computer, so if the speakers are working but the headphone jack is not, then the drivers etc. would be irrelevant. If my understanding is correct, then it might be a good idea to take apart the master speaker and check the internal wiring. |
Alasta (1420) | ||
| 245450 | 2004-06-17 23:01:00 | whoa,before anyone goes taking apart the speakers,test the headphones on another device first,they will be the weakest link. | metla (154) | ||
| 245451 | 2004-06-18 02:30:00 | The socket will have a switch in it so that plugging the headphones in disconnects the speakers. No software involved. The weakest point is the wire to the headphones (especially just where it leaves the plug). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 245452 | 2004-06-18 02:49:00 | Which is why I suggested, first off, plugging the headphones in to the CD jack . if that doesn't work, suspect the headphones . Supergran, can you get your mits on anothe rset of headphone you know work ok? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 245453 | 2004-06-18 09:33:00 | Just another thing, "Hi-Fi" stereo headphones with a 1/4" jack plug reduced down with a 3.5mm adapter to suit the speaker socket will give infinitely better sound quality than the tinnier "computer" headphones. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 245454 | 2004-06-18 09:41:00 | I have the same sort of setup, and I was wondering if anyone knows, would it effect the sound quality if it was plugged into the socket on the speaker? Would plugging directly into the sound card gain any quality? Not trying to hijack the thread, just one question and I'm gone . . . I promise :p |
promethius (1998) | ||
| 245455 | 2004-06-18 09:51:00 | promethius, It can, but in any case, the quality change would be so little that you would not notice it at all. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 245456 | 2004-06-18 10:04:00 | > If my understanding is correct, then it might be a > good idea to take apart the master speaker and check > the internal wiring. LOL LOL - don't think reformatting would have any effect on the internals of the speakers |
Baldy (26) | ||
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