Yes, I have an ATI All-In-Wonder video card, it has TV and other such stuff, and once when I was having trouble getting the sound to channel through the mother board, I used wires like the CD-Rom cables to go from the line out on the video card to the line-in on the card. Which is a sound blaster live. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 8:22 PM Subject: on-board sound internal conection question -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I have a machine here which has on-board sound. There is only one internal audio connector on the motherboard, for connecting the audio cable from a cd-rom drive. A couple of days ago, I got a card that requires an internal connection in order for one to hear the audio produced by the card. Since I only have one internal audio connector on my motherboard, I want to unplug the audio cable from the cd-rom drive, and plug in the new card's audio cable to where the cd-rom drive's cable was plugged in. My question is, if anyone knows if it's ok to use these internal audio connectors for things other then cd-rom drives? The audio that I'm getting from the new card now is very faint and quiet, and I want to eliminate incorrect use of the on-board audio connector, before I start to investigate possible issues with the new card itself. One theory that I came up with for the quiet audio is that the sound produced by cd-rom drives maybe very strong, so it doesn't need to be amplified, whereas the sound produced by the card may not be as strong as that produced by the cd-rom drive, which would mean that the card would have to be plugged into one of the other internal audio connectors on a standard sound card. Does anyone know if this theory is in fact correct or not? Is the volume going out from a cd-rom drive to the sound card louder then volume produced by other cards that could have their audio outputs internally attached to a sound card? I'm probably not phrasing this question very well, but I hope what I'm asking will make sense to those in the know. As to why I can't simply put in a regular sound card with more internal audio connectors, and disable the on-board sound, the answer is that I'm out of pci/isa slots, and don't want to permanently pull out any of the cards I have in the machine now. Thanks in advance. Greg - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBQ6S77s9z/XlyUyARAh4qAJ9r2rnlwDZflcH3/TolpmoiKP1CRwCgohm7 tRVJIWa/J14/HXD2v1+V+lE= =I0r6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
