Is it possible to use this system in conjunction with a laptop? I was previously using with my desktop but don't find a connection for exterior speakers on my Compaq Presario.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated!
Shelley
I managed to connect them to my Dell Latitude without any splitter cables. At first I was getting no sound output from any of the speakers, and to try and determine if it was a hardware error, I connected a pair of headphones to the volume control. After unplugging the headphones I was suprised to hear my speakers playing out of every channel.
To be honest I am unsure how this remedy worked, or if it will work for others. All I had connected to the laptop was the green plug from the audio input cable going to my headphone jack.
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Re: Connection to Laptop
You can also move the switch on the back of the sub unit to 2.1 and use it without the 5.1 surround feature. I'm guessing the laptop isn't outputting 5.1 anyway so you're not really missing any audio quality in just using the 2 front speakers and the sub.
Since the majority of laptops do not have multiple sound outputs you will need to buy a couple of headphone splitters.
Plug the first Y splitter into the laptop headphone port and plug one of the input cables going to the speakers in one arm of the Y. Next, plug another Y splitter in the remaining arm of the first Y. This will provide you with the other two inputs that you need. Plug the remaining speaker cables into the other Y arms.
From there it is simply controlling the speakers using the laptop volume and/or the speakers volume. You will not have fader control on a 3.1 or 5.1 speaker system but it will give you what you are looking for.
I have this same configuration at my office using an IBM laptop and a 5.1 surround sound system.
Good luck.
JC
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If you have the current password, use it to access the bios password screen in your BIOS menu and leave the new password blank. Assuming you don't have the BIOS password, there is generally a white jumper connecting two pins on the system board. With this removed, the BIOS password will not lock out changes to the BIOS. This is especially useful if you've purchased a used system that the previous owner locked out.
If you can't see anything - even the text from BIOS when it boots, I would suspect that it is probably the monitor. If the PC USED to boot fine, then suddenly started behaving this way it is very possibly either the monitor or the signal to the monitor.
You didn't say if the PC is a desktop or a laptop. If it is a laptop, try to find an external monitor to connect to. Of course, in most cases laptops require that you switch them to a dual monitor mode, which will be difficult if you don't see anything on the main monitor.
Is the a Windows machine? What version of the OS are you running? Have you made any changes to the system?
Also: be sure that if you are using an external monitor, the cable is seated fully and tightened down.
LOL, not much you can do about the glare unless you buy some type of cover that goes over the screen.
Have you tried darkening the screen by using your keyboard keys that controls the brightness and darkness? Usually they work in conjunction with the FN function key.
if you have a recovery option you can try that. that option allows you to reload the previously known good start up operating system before you added any new updates. you should have an option to choose a previous date.
It is possible, although unlikely if it was installed correctly. It would be much more likely in a desktop system, but I don't know what kind of computer you are using.
If you are using a desktop computer, opening the case to the system is usually simple and it wouldn't take more than a glance around the components to see if the card has fallen out.
A laptop would be a more difficult situation, but still do-able if you know what you are doing. I, myself, would not mess around with a laptop's interior, however.
So if there is not a vga input connection on your lcd tv which most do. You can get a vga to dvi cable adapter in conjunction with a dvi to hdmi conversion cable. Note that you may have to change your resolution settings in order to veiw computer images on your lcd t.v. If your laptop has an svideo output you can also connect this way but the image quality will be greatly reduced.
it appears that a song is playing, but no sound is coming out.
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