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CzarTim
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Posted: 17th Jun 2006 21:43
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Hey guys,

I have a headphone jack in the front on my pc that I use a lot. Mostly I switch it between my headphones and speakers. However all of the sudden last night as I pluged in my headphones the right side doesnt produce any sound. I've tried other headphones and speakers and get the same results, no right speaker. I've also tried diffrent audio programs (itunes, wmp, real) and gone through all my sound settings. Any ideas?

-czar

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CzarTim
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 03:20
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rly? i wouldnt have thought pluging in headphoneds would call for a reset... oh well i have another plug in the back, and i can get some1 to replace it.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 04:44 Edited at: 18th Jun 2006 04:44
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My headphone jack has never worked in 10 years of different computers. You are lucky. I have to plug headphones into my rear speaker socket.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 05:28
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Pincho, that's because the plugs from the Case's Jacks aren't plugged into your MoBo/Sound Card

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Wandering Swordsman
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 05:45
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Quote: "always turn off your pc before plugging in or unpluging anything besides USB"

Oh, damn...
I'll keep that in mind from now on.

I didn't realize swapping out my speakers for head phones could cause that! Eek!

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CzarTim
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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 06:44
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kool ty guys! I bought an extender so i do have to behind my pc everytime i want to change it, do i need to shut off for this too?

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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 16:43 Edited at: 20th Jun 2006 16:45
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you can plug/unplug speakers/headphones while the pc is on just mute the in/out channels in the audio settings beforehand, and in the case of connecting/disconnecting speakers, make sure the speakers are powered down first

-mute
-power down
-disconnect

-reconnect
-power up
-un mute

Quote: "Pincho, that's because the plugs from the Case's Jacks aren't plugged into your MoBo/Sound Card "

LMAO

I have front panel headphone and mic connectors on my pc case but the wires inside wont reach the mobo/audio card

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mm0zct
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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 17:36
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try moving the jack plug slightly in the connector, it's possibly a bad contact between the plug and socket so pulling the plug out a little or pushing it in harder might do the trick.

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EddieB
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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 18:14
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Quote: "I have front panel headphone and mic connectors on my pc case but the wires inside wont reach the mobo/audio card "


haha! Same here
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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 20:01
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[lol] I did something like that at school. i stuck a house key into some USB ports. The usb ports dont work now. [\lol]

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Neofish
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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 20:20
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[quote]try moving the jack plug slightly in the connector, it's possibly a bad contact between the plug and socket so pulling the plug out a little or pushing it in harder might do the trick.[quote]
i think thats more likely, i mean whats the point of even allowing plug n play (ie dont reboot) if you have to!!!

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 02:29
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No, my case doesn't have a headphone socket, I meant my CD player has a head phone socket. I have had 3 CD players but the headphone socket has never worked.

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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 03:36
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is the cdrom capable of playing audio cds thru the system speakers?
have you ever connected the audio cable from the sound card to the cdrom drive?

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Les Horribres
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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 05:35 Edited at: 21st Jun 2006 05:35
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Quote: "I did something like that at school. i stuck a house key into some USB ports. The usb ports dont work now."

OMM... can we not talk about breaking public property.


CR, I happen to excessivly plug in and out stuff... but have low volume all the time.

Is that still bad?

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CzarTim
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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 06:11
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Quote: "you can plug/unplug speakers/headphones while the pc is on just mute the in/out channels in the audio settings beforehand, and in the case of connecting/disconnecting speakers, make sure the speakers are powered down first

-mute
-power down
-disconnect

-reconnect
-power up
-un mute"


and by mute i assume u just mean hitting the mute button on the system audio tray?

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 14:01
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The only thing you can damage is your speakers through a sound surge. So all you have to do is stop sound from reaching the speakers.

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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 15:36
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Quote: "and by mute i assume u just mean hitting the mute button on the system audio tray?"


yes, or in the audio settings app, either one will do.
when you mute you are stopping the hardware from sending the audio signals to the speaker's amplifier. Amping is the root of potential disaster so by muting you are avoiding disaster, as it were.

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mm0zct
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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 21:25
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beware of ampilfiers supplyign a voltage on the line-in, it fried one of my friend's sound cards (and gave my arm a fair tingle)

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