On 01/03/2013 08:37 AM, Dale Snell wrote: > Open up your box again, only this time boot it up and try playing > some music. Use a cardboard tube (say, from a roll of waxed > paper) to one ear to determine where the "phantom" sound is coming > from. I've used this technique to find the source of odd sounds > before -- it's surprising how well it works. I'd be willing to > bet that there's some odd, non-speaker-looking component on the > motherboard that's acting as the speaker.
Interesting technique. It might have been more effective if there weren't so many big shiny fins all over the place. Actually, the closest I've come to finding what sounds like a real speaker is that with the cover off, and using the cardboard tube, the sound seems to be coming from "under" the motherboard. That would be on one of the sides of the tower. It looks like there's room for a modest speaker in there. There are too many other things I'd likely mess up if I were required to find the culprit, so I'm just going to sigh and say, "Hey. I've got a speaker inside my computer." > As for the rear sound connectors, since everything worked before > you installed your new DVD, it's most likely a loose connection. > Try wiggling and pushing on the cable connectors while you're > playing music. Double check the connections to make sure that one > of the cables isn't plugged in wrong (i.e., offset by one, turned > around backwards). Checked wire that went from someplace to someplace else, where I could find at least one end. Every connector I found was seated firmly. The only connectors I messed with when I installed the new DVD drive were the old ISA cable from the old drive, and the power connector from that drive, and the new SATA data cable and the Molex to SATA style power cables. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
