A few days ago, I was trying to install drivers for OGG and WMA audio formats for a game. OGG worked, WMA did not (no support for Intel, yet). I played the game, and occasionally the sound turned to shrill noise. Software upgrades, time passes. And now I have a strange problem:
AAAAAAarargh!
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Are your external speakers powered, i.e do they incorporate an amplifier?
The signal from most Line Out terminals are at a level too low to run a speaker. They may run an old crystal earpiece but that’s about all. Try sending the Line Out signal thru an amplifier or pre-amplifier and I’m certain you will get the result you are after.
The reason the internal speaker cuts out is simply because the int spkr circuit is disconnected as soon as you plug anything into the socket.
Good luck
– Paul Turvey 2006-07-09 14:54 UTC
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Heh, thanks for your comment. I have speakers that include an amplifier. They worked before! So it was strange that they stopped working. I thought that maybe one of the packages I had installed for ogg or wma drivers. Anyway. The strange thing is that they started working again. Now, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a hardware problem because I plugged and unplugged them a dozen times, tried the speakers on other devices, verified that the Line Out terminal did not work with headphones either, etc. So currently I’m thinking: a. perhaps one of the software updates fixed the issue, and b. no precipitous installation of packages...
– Alex Schroeder 2006-07-10 17:43 UTC