OT: PC speaker issues.

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

Static in audio typically comes from a bad contact.  Motherboard audio (or anything else solid state) is unlikely to fail as
compared to contacts.  If your system switches over to sending the motherboard audio to the pc speaker upon disconnection of the
external speakers, it is likely that a contact switches over as you plug in the externals.  Insert/remove the plug a few times and
see if that cleans off the contacts enough to fix things (the switching contact for such an arrangement is usually inside the jack
itself).

Al 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Smith [mailto:smithma7@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 5:54 PM
> To: Verboten1; car
> Subject: Re: OT: PC speaker issues.
> 
> They are powered, but as I mentioned, I also get the sound 
> from the PC's internal speaker when I unplug the external 
> ones from the PC (green audio cable).  Which is why I'm 
> wondering is it a virus issue, like someone mentioned to me 
> in the middle of a PKA game (fast furious action, so hard to 
> read chat stuff), or if the in-line MB sound is fooked.
> 
> On the speaker end of things, sometimes the static would go 
> away when I "nudged" the sub-woofer with my foot.  Doesn't 
> work that way anymore.
> 
> Today, I plugged in some brand new Altec-Lansings.  Love them for PCs.
> Anyway, the static was there as soon as I plugged them in.  
> It was while changing speakers from old to new that I 
> discovered the static coming out of the PC's internal 
> speaker.  The weird thing is that the static went away soon 
> after sending my initial post to the list.
> Sounds great now. But I have no idea why.  To be on the safe 
> side, I'll turn these off when not in use (like the monitor). 
>  Always left them on before.
> 
> On 10/11/06, Verboten1 <verboten1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > if they are powered, and with no signal you get the noise, the amp 
> > could be fried on input side, or if it has a volume knob, the knob 
> > could be dirty, any number of things
> >
> >
> > On 10/11/06, Mike Smith <smithma7@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Lately, I've been getting some static from my right 
> channel.  For a 
> > > while it was negligable and it came and went.  Currently, 
> it's been 
> > > getting really bad and the right channel has been going 
> out entirely.
> > > I thought it was a speaker issue as I had the same 
> problem years ago.
> > > I switched my speakers with the old system and got same 
> problem.  I 
> > > assumed it was speakers as these were the ones I 
> originally had the 
> > > problem with way back when.
> > >
> > > So I got a new set.  Same problem as soon as I plug them 
> in.  Hmmm, 
> > > maybe it's the KVM switch?  So I bypass that and plug 
> directly into 
> > > the sound output on back of computer.  Same problem.  In 
> fact, when 
> > > it's not plugged in, I can hear the static coming out of 
> the speaker 
> > > in the computer.
> > >
> > > Bad sound card?  A friend mentioned something about a virus doing 
> > > this.  Seems odd tho since I'm having the same problem 
> that I had 8 
> > > or
> > > 9 years ago.  I never solved it then, just dealt with it as I 
> > > figured the speakers were going south (plus, at one point 
> I kind of 
> > > messed them up myself).  Different computer, different speakers, 
> > > same problem.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike
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