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Audio Ports
Inspiron E1705 Are the 1/4" mini mic and headphone ports integral to the mobo, or are they on a replaceable card?
I can not record from a device using a cable to the mic port. I can not get sound to an external speaker from the headphone port.
Audacity shows no input signal when I record from the system or from the built in mics.
I do get sound from the speakers when I play a CD from the drive, and from the Internet.
How can I trouble shhot this problem?
Jim Coates
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April 14th, 2017 05:00
If it produced audio when XP was installed, then I would think a Sigmatel driver must have been installed, because the Sigmatel hardware was the HD type, but the XP native audio driver was only for the AC97 type of audio hardware. So the audio driver had to be installed anytime there was a re-installation of XP.
XP was already fully developed by the time manufacturers started putting HD on the motherboards, and that's why there was no native driver for HD. All later versions of Windows have a native HD driver, and usually the audio will work off of it until a vendor driver can be installed.