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December 9th, 2011 11:00
Adding Audio Components to Inspiron 1525
Greetings Friends,
Recently my Dimension 4600 hard drive (I suppose) has failed; it will not initialize any files/programs. As a temporary replacement I have moved my Inspiron 1525 to the office in which I relied heavily on the PC for various computing purposes. Now I find I very miss the music I often played as I worked and relaxed at the Dimension.
The speakers were the stock set; the only nomenclature is a small tag at the bottom of one of them, marked "YZ3CB" ; I added at time of purchase a Dell sub-woofer. The setup sounds great for my needs.
I find that when I conncet the single green plug to one the audio connection holes on the fromt of the Inspiron, it will not drive the sound system. I think I may have read that I would need to added a powered amp to get the stock system and subwoofer up and running. Does that sound about right? And ~ can anyone suggest the unit I might need and how it connects?
I thank you sincerely for any time and consideration you may be able to give this matter.
Respectfully,
Russ
DELL-Terry B
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December 9th, 2011 12:00
Russ
Powered speakers certainly wouldn't hurt. Before purchasing anything I would simply test with a normal set of headphones and see if sounds are alright. Once that you verified that sound is working at all on the notebook then you can consider upgrading your speakers.
Do you get sounds from the notebook's internal speakers? Play and audio file and see if they work will be another method to verify if the sound card works.
If you get no sound at all regardless what speakers you use, I suggest running diagnostics. Start the system holding down FN or tap F12 and choose diagnostics. Allow the basic tests to complete then select hardware diagnostics, then custom tests and then audio diagnostics. Do you get any sound running the audio test?
If diagnostics failed then you can try uninstalling and then reinstall the audio drivers. They may be downloaded from the following link
www.dell.com/.../DriverFileFormats
Please let me know what you find out.
TB
TB
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December 9th, 2011 13:00
I hope that I helped a little. I am personally not familiar with amps for PC speakers but they may be some models available out there. Powered speakers though aren't that expensive and some have very good sound quality so it may be easier for you to get a set of powered speakers.
TB
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December 9th, 2011 13:00
Thank you very much, Terry. Sound card is fine, on-board speakers and headphones working perfectly. If I contiune using the Inspiron 1525 as the main computer here - Dimension 4600 has broken down - I'll likley add powered speakers. I'd gathered the impression one could add a separate amp to supplement the stock system, but from your response it seems I was wrong on that.
Best Regarrds, Russ