Any computer whizzes out there??
trailspirit
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Inherited a PC from my sister - Dell XPS 210 circa 2006 - XP o/s
Can't get any sound and I think one of her kids has broken a headphone jack in the line out socket. I cannot get to the offending article or the line out as it's really, really, really ( you get the picture? ) buried in the innards of the machine.
Is there any way I can disable the line out / headphone socket so the sound card thinks it's not there or not in use, 'cause that's the only way I can think of to get sound again???
Cheers!!!
Can't get any sound and I think one of her kids has broken a headphone jack in the line out socket. I cannot get to the offending article or the line out as it's really, really, really ( you get the picture? ) buried in the innards of the machine.
Is there any way I can disable the line out / headphone socket so the sound card thinks it's not there or not in use, 'cause that's the only way I can think of to get sound again???
Cheers!!!
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short of clearing it, which will probably end up fudging it well and truely.....would you conside desoldering the mini transistor controlling the individual port on the board? :twisted:
the 3 jacks work in series, so only other thing i can think of is adding a new sound card device or bypassing to another set of ports for example
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=soundblaster&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
crikey, most of the cards are top notch creative stuff going for pennies. Those Audigy cards were the equivalent of high end graphics cards in years gone by. Any idea what software you need to take advantage of the DSP? Or are modern CPUs so powerful that it wouldn't do alot for you anyway?
Creative drivers suck major balls. Best thing to do is just install the bare minimum driver to get it to work, and sod the rest of their software package, which loads countless popups when windows loads, and brings your machine to a bleeding crawl. And adds no useful functionality.
However you may just want your computer to go 'bing' when an email arrives. Horses for courses..
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Been disappointed with the sample quality you get from on board audio too. If you're into turning your vinyl into MP3 then invest in a sound card.
That one conclusion was drawn from an intel chipsetted mobo vs. some cheapy soundblaster I got for £5 off the bay - the latter was _much_ better quality.
Cheap mobo = cheap sound chip IME
And it does it all with a sytem throughput from input to output in less than 6 milliseconds.
We also have DSP-based systems for recording multitrack, so we can get I/O latencies down to 128 samples, so that drummers, and musicians don't hear any delay in their headphones.
DSP is not needed for pretty much any consumer use. In fact, games stopped using soundcard DSP quite a while ago, instead relying on CPU-based methods.
And, if I remember rightly, Vista onwards don't even support the use of creative's DSP anymore.
And another thing, all the Audigys ran at 48Khz sampling rate. They resampled everything else to that, even if your system sampling frequency was set to 44.1, or even 96Khz.
And one more thing, mixing sample rates is a very rare scenario that just wasn;t supported on Windows until recently, although i think apple's core-audio had the ability.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mab_YNmX9Ao
When I played it through my laptop I could hear it for what it is, dub; but another friend played it through his speaker system connected to his pc and couldn't pick up the bass at all.
I used to work in radio and it really irks me when people negelct sound quality, it can make such a huge difference to your experinece of all things webby.
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