Good evening,
I finally tracked down a loss of sound from my Gateway SX2803 to the amplifier for regular size speakers. It was the rear audio plug. After years of use it is worn to the point of not making a good connection. It would work with headphones and that confused the trouble shooting a bit. I am using the front audio out plug now. It works fine.
Has anyone out there ever repaired or replaced a 3.5mm audio jack on a PC? There's nothing special or unique about the old Gateway or its MOBO. It's just a common small format ( Acer MB DIG43L Eup Motherboard MB.SED01.001 + Pentium E5800 3.2GHz CPU + HSF) piece. I am thinking of taking one out of the junk collection, but it would probably be better to buy a new jack. (Please forgive me for using jack and plug for the same thing. I am referring to the female part.)
I'd appreciate any advice on the topic. I'm always afraid I'm going to fry some delicate bit of electronic junk on the circuit if I solder any solid state circuitry regardless of elaborate heat sinks.
I like to listen to a variety of background music in the office. I run cables from the office to my studio/bedroom. When I'm painting and drawing I listen to jazz, audio books and OTR, I love Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Billie Holiday, Gershwin, old Boogie Woogie and a lot of obscure stuff. Well I better close, shut down everything and hit the sack.
Best wishes and goodnight,
Phredtx
I finally tracked down a loss of sound from my Gateway SX2803 to the amplifier for regular size speakers. It was the rear audio plug. After years of use it is worn to the point of not making a good connection. It would work with headphones and that confused the trouble shooting a bit. I am using the front audio out plug now. It works fine.
Has anyone out there ever repaired or replaced a 3.5mm audio jack on a PC? There's nothing special or unique about the old Gateway or its MOBO. It's just a common small format ( Acer MB DIG43L Eup Motherboard MB.SED01.001 + Pentium E5800 3.2GHz CPU + HSF) piece. I am thinking of taking one out of the junk collection, but it would probably be better to buy a new jack. (Please forgive me for using jack and plug for the same thing. I am referring to the female part.)
I'd appreciate any advice on the topic. I'm always afraid I'm going to fry some delicate bit of electronic junk on the circuit if I solder any solid state circuitry regardless of elaborate heat sinks.
I like to listen to a variety of background music in the office. I run cables from the office to my studio/bedroom. When I'm painting and drawing I listen to jazz, audio books and OTR, I love Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Billie Holiday, Gershwin, old Boogie Woogie and a lot of obscure stuff. Well I better close, shut down everything and hit the sack.
Best wishes and goodnight,
Phredtx
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Gateway SX2803
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Service Pack 1
- CPU
- Pentium Dual-Core E5800 @ 3.20GHz 3.20GHz
- Memory
- 6.00 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel G45/G43 Express Chipset
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell E207WFP
- Internet Speed
- 1.0 GB
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- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model Number
- eMachine T3095
- OS
- XP SP3
- CPU
- AMD Athlon Clock Rate 1191MHz
- Motherboard
- C255346807
- Memory
- 704 MB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeoForce4 MX In GPU VMem 65344KB
- Sound Card
- nForce 6-Channel/Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- DELL 174FPC
- Screen Resolution
- 1024 by 768
- Hard Drives
- Disk C: NTFS 70.7 GB
Disk D: NTFS 37.25 GB
