I suggest you open the box, identify the board that the speakers plug into or the cable from the speaker jacks back to the board then press that connection firmly down, lift it up and press it down a few times to shift the pins a little. sometimes a little corrosion forms on the pins and this usually breaks it up or at least reseats the plug. The little vibration you produce in jiggling the cable may be achieving a similar thing.
While there, I like to firmly press any of the chips down into their sockets. You must support the opposite side of the board when doing that but often a chip or two will emit a little squeak as it too reseats and this can also restore a doubtful connection. You should probably unplug the machine and a cautious person would also clip a ground from you to the chassis of the computer. I have never done this and not had a problem but it could be a problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] sound card problem Tom, I like you are stumped. When it is talking the sound comes through both speakers. When it is not talking the music still plays through both speakers. It did it again and I just tapped the cable and it started talking. As the late Joe Labrini, an old Burroughs field engineer, use to say he did not get paid for hitting it but he got paid for knowing where to hit it. I am ready to purchase a pci sound card but first plan to check the sales for a new machine. This one was purchased near the end of 2000. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fowle" <fo...@ski.org> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] sound card problem Lenny, Notice carefully if JAWS talks only out of one chanel or the other. I'd bet it talks only through either right or left sides and that the music is either a real stereo file or comes through both chanels. if this is the case, then the problem is that one connection on either the plug or the jack is intermittent and since the music comes from both chanels, you hear it. If jaws talks through both chanels, I'm stumpped, However get a can of spray contact cleaner and squirt a very small amount on the speaker plug, then shove it in the jack and wiggle it about a bit. I'll bet that solves it. Probably corosion in the join between jack and plug. Tom Fowle ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: blindhandyman-ow...@yahoogroups.com To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: blindhandyman-h...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links __________ NOD32 3690 (20081214) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
