Topic: Motherboard Audio connections ?

[Tony]

Sean

You know I'm only ribbing, and I know you would have come charging in like the Cavalry is you could help audio wise.

Cheers Mate

[Sandra]

Well it will either work or it wont Tony
It cant do any damage as far as I can tell doing it that way.
Are the headphone/speaker sockets not mounted into a plastic bit at the front ?
If they are then they wouldnt be earthed,unless they were connected to an earthing tag nearby  

[Adept]

You know I'm only ribbing

Of course Tony - wouldn't have it any other way

[Tony]

Well it will either work or it wont Tony
It cant do any damage as far as I can tell doing it that way.
Are the headphone/speaker sockets not mounted into a plastic bit at the front ?
If they are then they wouldnt be earthed,unless they were connected to an earthing tag nearby  

Piccy coming up, as my batteries are recharged, that should get Simon salavating.

back shortly  

[Adept]

Simon salavating

You really are serving up some disgusting images today Tony

[Tony]

out of focus but you can see that they are just normal mic/speaker connectors

http://www.tonysugrue.co.uk/frontaudiousb.jpg

[Sandra]

I cant see either being earthed on that set up Tony as its a plastic case and the sockets would pull away with the front cover I should think.
Have you got a multi meter so that you can check to see if theres a circuit between the 2 sockets so that we can be sure if they have a common earth going somewhere  

[Tony]

Nar, now't like that Sandra, but I keep meaning to get one.

Mind you I ain't even got a set of headphones, because I work on the logic, that if its good enough for me to listen too, every bugger can listen a well, I'm not mean you know.   I once had a microphone but I give that away.

Just the other week I gave a plastic Heron away, see what I mean  

[Sandra]

Have you got a torch bulb and a battery and a piece of wire?
Disconnect the sockets from the mobo and just see if it will make a circuit using the outside of the 2 sockets as a switch :doggie:

[Tony]

Bloody hell Sandra were you in the girl guides, I'll borrow some headphones from a neighbour tomorrow. and I'll borrow that mic back as well.

[Tony]

Well I tried a mic and headphones in the sockets and they both worked.

Thanks everybody for your assistance and input.

Tony

[Simon]

I'm reluctant to say this, because I know it's a stupid question, and someone's bound to take the pi$$, but if your Motherboard has 'on board' sound, you don't need a sound card do you?

The reason I'm asking is all this talk of sound leads, etc, which I haven't bothered with, as my Asus A7V8X-X has onboard 6.1 sound, the software being on the CD that came with the motherboard.  

[Sandra]

Some people arent happy with the onboard sound Simon so they disable it in BIOS and add a soundcard.
If you/your friend are happy with the sound then leave it as it is,if not add a soundcard