Nope the back sockets are mounted directly on the mother board :-(
Of course I could have broken a track, but somehow it successfully detects
when the jack plug is inserted (little pop-up 'a plug has been inserted')
thanks anyway,
jez
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I assume that your rear panel sockets are connected to the motherboard
> via cable and a multi-pin connector of some sort. I suspect that this
> cable or connector have come loose somehow... possibly by accidentally
> jostling them while installing the PCI parallel card. I would check the
> condition of the wire connections and pull and re-seat the motherboard
> connector. Presumably the front speaker connections emanate from the
> same connector so check to see what's the difference if any.
>
> I considered (briefly) that there might be IRQ or other interference
> with the audio from the new PCI card but I don't know how that could
> occur and, given that you have audio out the front, that can't be the
> problem. As I said, both front and rear audio wiring should emanate
> from the same motherboard connector so the wiring or connector would
> seem the likely candidates. My bet is just a loose connector... and
> it's probably close to that new PCI card.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Jez Cunningham wrote:
> > Forgive me for hijacking the list to ask a PC question, but I've lost the
> > speaker audio from the rear sockets on my Dell PC. The front headphone
> > socket is ok, and the rear mic socket ok, and the PC detects when I plug
> a
> > jack into any of the rear sockets, but there's no audio coming out the
> rear
> > at all. What have I just done? Well I installed a new C: hard-disk,
> > reinstalled WinXP and all the updates, and installed a PCI -> parallel
> > printer card and of course I installed all the peripheral drivers. And
> > audio _is_ working ok out the front sockets so I think the driver is ok.
> I
> > reinstalled just to be sure anyway. Any brilliant ideas what I might
> have
> > done wrong?
> > Apologies again for the non-OM content - maybe you want to see a photo of
> > the rear sockets?
> > cheers
> > jez
> >
> > BTW (on-topic-ish) - you recently all gave me great suggestions for
> scenic
> > routes around Lake Ontario - well I have to cull the >500 pictures before
> I
> > show them, but they were GREAT suggestions and we had a wonderful time.
> > Thanks!
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