Hi, I recently had a friend over who connected his xbox 360 via an adapter to my pc to use the sound as well as the lcd screen, I believe the adapter was a vga type which he plugged into the 9mm audio plug on the back of my pc then plugged the speakers into the adapter - I'm not entirely positive of the set-up as that I didn't watch him do it (he says he does it at home on his own pc all the time with no problems) in any case, after he left I went to use my pc to play some music and I get no sound, I have checked the volume - both on the speakers as well as on the volume icon in the startup tray, I have checked to make sure that nothing is muted and I have checked to make sure my drivers are working properly (as well as the speakers themselves) everything I have checked indicates that everything is working properly and that I shouldn't be having any problems. I have also updated my drivers as a precaution and used the "go-back" feature on my pc - the first thing I did. But I still get no sound, well actually if I put one of the speakers right up to my ear I can very very faintly hear some sound - I don't think that there is a problem with my speakers as that I have hooked up some earplugs (proper word is escaping me right now) and there is still no sound. I've researched this as much as possible on the web and done everything that was suggested to anything that was remotely close to my problem, but nothing has worked so far, and I haven't come across anything that was exactly the same problem as that I seem to be having. Also, I don't have a sound card, the plug connects directly to the motherboard. I am running windows xp on a pentium 4 - 2.4 gig. The only thing I can assume at this point is that the plug has somehow gone bad? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance - Chris K.

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P.S. I forgot to mention - I am not especially computer saavy so if you could please be very specific with your suggestions. Thanks again - Chris K.

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Your friend probably blew out the preamp out on the motherboard.  Your options now 
are replacing the motherboard or better, installing a sound card into an open slot. 
 Your description of the connectors/adaptors is confusing so can't be sure of how 
it was connected, but I would bet that the outputs are damaged.  I would suggest 
posting to a hardware forum as this one is for software/Windows, and/or having a 
trusted shop diagnose it to see if it is hardware damage or software issues.






On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 4:39 pm, chris wrote:

>P.S. I forgot to mention - I am not especially computer saavy so if you could please 

>be very specific with your suggestions. Thanks again - Chris K. 

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I thought that I might have to get a soundcard, but I figured I'd see if there was something I was missing beforehand. Picked up a soundcard today, all is in audio harmony again. Thanks for the help. 8^)

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