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Trouble with connecting speakers to pc - help!
Charlton_King
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Can anyone help?
For years I've done my internet surfing minus all the audio shlok - bliss! However, now we're in the era of iplayer and being able to catch up with progs online, I'm trying to connect this pair of old speakers to my new pc... to no avail.
The speakers both have battery compartments and seem to be linked by a cable 'in sequence'. My computer has been delivered by Dell (an Inspiron 531), very helpfully, without any kind of user handbook. There appears to be a bunch of 6 colour coded jack sockets in the pc's back panel.
Nothing I do seems to get a reaction out of the pc bar a little information window saying that a 'jack has been plugged in/out', certainly no sound.
I'm at a loss.
For years I've done my internet surfing minus all the audio shlok - bliss! However, now we're in the era of iplayer and being able to catch up with progs online, I'm trying to connect this pair of old speakers to my new pc... to no avail.
The speakers both have battery compartments and seem to be linked by a cable 'in sequence'. My computer has been delivered by Dell (an Inspiron 531), very helpfully, without any kind of user handbook. There appears to be a bunch of 6 colour coded jack sockets in the pc's back panel.
Nothing I do seems to get a reaction out of the pc bar a little information window saying that a 'jack has been plugged in/out', certainly no sound.
I'm at a loss.
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Please confirm the colour or the cable connectors on both the speakers and the ones in the back of the PC. Did you pay for any upgrades of any description just so I can get a summary of the spec. Particuarly the sound card.Live for what tomorrow has to bring, not what yesterday has taken away0
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The pc came as standard - no upgrades. The cabling attached to the speakers appears to be perfectly standard dual stuff. The two are run off one jack plug.
The jack sockets in the rear of the Dell are a group of 6, coloured: white, black, orange, pink, green and blue.0 -
I've found the speakers on this ebay sale, if it's of any help:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sound-Blaster-Computer-Speakers-SBS38_W0QQitemZ370031003799QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0803100936a330350 -
The colour coding isn't standardised, but typically the front output is colour coded green, and has a symbol with concentric circles and an arrow pointing outward from the centre.
It may also be labelled L/R or Front.
As you suggest, the speakers are typically chained together and (obviously) either need a power supply or batteries.
If you get no sound out, first go into System, Device Manager and check that the sound card has the correct drivers installed (i.e. no exclamation mark by it). Then go into the Volume Control and check that the relevant inputs and outputs are not muted.0
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