Can the Dell D630 Record without a soundcard

dx052

I am looking to record a source into my laptop without an external soundcard but I am not sure its possible with this laptop, can anyone confirm this? My source is okay coming and I have a good audio editor but I am not sure the internal souncard allows me to.

asbokid

Sounds like a driver problem...

From http://www.vivekpohre.com/tips-tricks/dell-latitude-d630-sound-problems-solved/

Woooof!! … I have a Dell Latitude D630. This laptop is having numerous always happening problems with its device drivers. One of them is the sound input problem and stereo mix problem.

When you try to plug-in some sound source to the external mic jack, it doesn’t recognize the input. I was like “sweat-bathing” in googling some solution for this. But after I reached the 10th page, I came to know that recently Dell has released a patch for this problem. It can be downloaded from the following path.

ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R171789.exe

It works pretty well and I am more than satisfied, because now the device driver not only works, but they have also developed a UI for managing the input controls.

Once you jack your input source, the auto-detect connection event fires and it asks you for the type of input you desire to have.
This is really very satisfactory after so much of frustration.

Thanks Dell

geordieracer

All depends what it is your plugging in really.

dx052

I am plugging in an audio signal from my tuner.

Hammyman

As a Dell D630 has a mic socket, yes it can record.

geordieracer

dx052 wrote: »

I am plugging in an audio signal from my tuner.

Should be fine then. What are you using to record it too? And have you got it set right to record the incoming channel or even 'what im listening to' if audacity?

dx052

I am using Audacity, not my favorite program but as its free it'l work. I don't rememember seeing that setting that you have mentioned though. But its working fine to my surprise.