BenBOMB

Hey guys,

I was bored one day and I was just not feeling the sound quality of my speakers. So I went and grabber my stereo speakers and connect them into the back of my Dell speakers. It gave it some good sound and bass now since the speakers have mini subwoofers in them. After this I was like, I can take this to the next level. I connect an old amp of my dads to the speakers I connect to the Dell speakers. Now my music has some dang good bass and everything. Everything is still working properly at this point, sound from the computer and everything. I had another two extra speakers so I connect them into the back of the amp (the amp has four slots for four speakers). Everything is still going well, and i'm actually enjoying my computer for once because i'm huge into music and i'm loving the sound i'm getting. After a few weeks of having this, I remember the amp came with a CD player. Remember all this stuff is pretty old, brand is JVS and from when my dad was younger. He is now 50 lol. Anyways I connect the CD player to the amp, and everything is working fine, music still came out of my computer. When I went to play the CD player with some CDs to test, it worked fine. Then I went back to my computer music and now there is no song coming from the computer. The speakers work fine just no sound from the computer. I was told from a friend at school I probably blew my sound card, any suggestions?

Just to add in I don't want to hear complaints about my "ghetto" rigging of my stuff because I was just having fun haha. Just tell me what i have to do to get my sound back.

Thanks for the help if I get any.

-Ben

Dogg

Start by disconnecting everything, and connecting the original speakers back to the sound card. That will bypass all of your "ghetto" work and see if the sound card is still working. You could also try a set of headphones in the sound card output, but it will be very faint. If it works, then you simply need to verify all of your connections. If it doesn't, then the sound card has likely failed.

BenBOMB

Alright well I disconnected all of my ghetto rigging and disconnect my speakers. Then I downloaded the SoundMAX driver for my computer. I restarted and my speakers still didn't work. I went to try the headphones and the headphones work. So how do I verify all of my connections or whatever your talking about.

Dogg

If the headphones are working in the Line Out connector, then you sound card is still good. The problem is with your cabling, connections, speakers, or anything else you have connected.

BenBOMB

Well all of my rigging is disconnected and the speakers still work fine with the other rigging when it was connected. Ill just try my parent's dell speakers connecters and see if those work.

Thanks for the help.