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Darel Higgs Posted on Dec 23, 2011
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My headphones will work but my desktop speakers will not why?

  • Anonymous Dec 23, 2011

    Are you plugging your desktop speakers in to the exact same audio socket as used for the headphones?If so, do you have power to the speakers, is it turned on, and any volume control turned high enough to hear any audio output?Have you tried any other speakers in the same audio socket?Do you have any front panel audio sockets - have you tried these in addition to trying any on the rear panel?

  • Darel Higgs Dec 23, 2011

    my speakers are plugged into the right port,i can hear some sound but no music,this is the built in port on the back panel.i can plug them into my headphone jack in the front and the will work.

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If your speakers work fine when plugged into the headphones socket on the front of the system, then there is no fault with them.
If the sound through the speakers is very low when plugged into the rear panel socket, that would suggest that you may be plugged into the line out socket rather than the speaker socket and that there is a mismatch of the impedence between the socket and speakers.
If you have three audio sockets on the rear panel, try the speakers in the second output socket (but not in the microphone socket) and see if it makes a difference.
You could try the same test using the headphones - do you still get good sound levels with the headphones when plugged in to the rear panel socket?
If neither the speakers nor headphones give good sound when plugged in to the rear panel, then you may have a problem with either the sound card if the sockets are on a separate PCI card, or with a poor connection on the cable to the socket header bracket from the motherboard pins for audio for integrated adapters.

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