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Is it Possible: To Use Mic Jack as Headphone Jack?
I have a laptop on which the headphone jack is messed up. So I'm wondering, since it's one sound card, and headphone and mic jacks are identical, is it possible to alter the drivers, to switch the output/inputs and use the mic jack as the headp...
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Problem with Audio
Hey for some reason my sound just quit working... it was working earlier tonight then i just came on and...nothing the jacks in the right plug, my speakers are plugged in, the computer volume is way up...just no sound...i tried plugging headpho...
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no sound
xp home.
I had built computer about 7 yrs ago for my wife. the sound was working fine but i installed some special hardware related to a viking sewing machine.
the hardware was a dongle. the software works fine related to the dongle but i l...
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Please advise :P
Hi guys,
I'm having a problem with one of my speakers. I noticed that the left one wasn't working when I was listening to Jimi and the guitar solo faded out instead of fading to the left side haha.
Anyway, I know it isn't a prob...
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No sound
Hi. Occasionally the sound just disapears from my pc. Usually when it has been left or switched off. Ive checked for loose wires etc but everything is fine. I've also been through the microsoft troubleshoot but that doesn't help. Any ideas???
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Songs Skipping?
June 13, I bumped this instead of making a whole new post about the same issue, please read last post newest update/issue
Ok I took my digital camera and recorder what it sounds like. You hear the skipping sound very well, now when you hear i...
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where to insert audio wire?
I accidentaly pulled out the audio wire from my mobo and im not sure where it goes
i have 2 choices, on is a blue 9 pin connection thingie and the other is a black 19 pin BUT the wire that i pulled out only has 4 slots with 3 wires
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How do you hookup the sound from the TV to the Computer?
I am buying this tv: ($660)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16889022011
I am also looking to buy a sound card and speakers (both 7.1 hopefully) for under $150 to hook up to this TV when I get it.
Looking at all of the inputs I ...
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problem with laptop speakers
i just recieved a laptop from my mom, its not new, i think it is like 3 or 4 years old, it has the service pack 1a disk with it, so its somewhat older. anyways, my problem is, when i close the monitor, or when it hibernates, and then i wake the...
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Driver Removal
hey, ive removed my sound card recently as i want to run of my onboard sound, and i want to make sure i have got rid off any drivers left over, as my mic does not seem to work, so does anyone know any good driver removal to download! thanks
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X-ram?
what is x-ram?
will it make a noticable difference?
i'm looking at a new X-fi, should i fork out the extra $ and get a card with the 64Mb X-ram?
thanks guys,
Paul
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Help with new surround sound speakers?
Recently I have become interested in getting a nicer sound system for my computer, and have already talked to my parents about getting something nice for Christmas (luckily still get presents like that.) So I have been researching all sorts of...
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Buying a sound card
I've been thinking about investing in a sound card for some time now, and finally I have the money to do so. After reading the sticky, I didn't find too much information that would help me pick one out so I started a thread.
I pretty much us...
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5.1 not working sometimes
I am running Z-5500's through an X-Fi Elite Pro.
I can't get 5.1 sound to work with TF2... Windows is set to 5.1, Creative Audio Console is set to 5.1, and TF2 audio settings are set to 5.1 but I am still not getting 5.1 surround sound with ...
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Led bulbs to headset output
Is it possible to connect few coloured led bulbs to headset output at integrated sound card, to get small "light show" ?
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Blster XtremeGamer sound trouble trouble
Hello All
I'm using the creative sound blaster xtrememGamer card and I'm having a little trouble with the sound card and my sound system. I'm using logitech 5.1 x540z surround sound system. I noticed that when I'm using the windows media pla...
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sound card recommendations
Hi all. I have an altec lansing VS4121 2.1 channel speakers. Any recommendations of a good sound card suitable for the above speakers?
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pc speakers for laptop? =/
i brought a pair of speakers for my laptop, a 5.1 surround system thing. I have green, black & orange plugs, which then go into a box which comes out with red & white, is there anyway to connect from here to my laptop? my laptop has a ...
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Sound Blaster X-FI driver problems
I just recieved my X-FI Fatality sound card. I installed it and everything went smoothly. However, after i restarted my computer, i went into device manager only to find that my driver didnt install. I had Windows try to install it and i tried ...
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New sound card problems
I have been having problems for a while regarding sound files in general and many different things. Recently I found out that there was a problem with my driver for my stock sound card. I tried to fix it and couldn't figure it out so I just bou...
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car subwoofers
Today i was in walmart and saw car subwoofers and i saw for $20 300watt roadmaster something subwoofers and they were either 10 or 12", perhaps i gt them what are the other things i would need to buy and how do they connect to the cars a...
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Help me pick out some speakers
Can someone recommend a good/decent set of PC speakers that I can plug directly into a TV without needing a separate audio receiver? I'm trying to save some space in our guest house so I dont want to hook up an entire home audio system, but I ...
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klipsch 2.1 promedia into tv
hey, i just bought myself the klipsch 2.1 promedia speaker set, and currently use it with my computer through the headphone jack and it works perfectly - i was just wondering, because my new tv - (sanyo dp26647) has some pretty weak speakers, ...
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2 Subwoofers on one computer?
Is it possible to hook 2 subwoofers up to one computer?
I have a dell 5650 5.1 system now and it sounds good, but I want some more bass.
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Magnetic fields?
Ive had a dell desktop for a while with a nice sound setup,i had some Hard-Drive issues,& i never really figured out what made them start to work poorly,then i just wondered if it had anything to do with my giant bass speaker which sits rig...
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new audio driver
Ok, well noone replyed in desktops, everyones probbally just doing somthing else, but anyways..
i just built my new computer, gigabyte s-series mobo and everything working fine expect my audio, ive tried to get the driver from the cd that my...
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NEED HELP! Sound Card, Hardware problem?
I have a problem with my sound card as the microphone kind of half works. If you open the sound recorder and scream into the microphone you can hear it very quietly and distorted. I have a suspicion this is a hardware issue but my local compute...
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Sound card needed? Which one?
First of all, I'm new here. Hello all.
Secondly, I did search, but they all come shy of what I'm asking. All sound card recommendation threads I found are for gamers. If not hardcore, then they're part time PC gamers.
Anyways...
I'm curre...
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