New Laptop/Old Speakers

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I recently bought at new laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). Although the machine has
built-in speakers I was interested in hooking up my "old" speaker from my
previous desktop - a nice pair of Bose Cube speakers. I believe I've
connected everything correctly, but I'm not getting any sound. I assume I
need to install a driver or change a setting, but I'm not sure where to
start. Any help would be appreaciated. Thanks in advance.
 
I followed the same wiring pattern as I had on my old Gateway desktop -
plugging the color-coded green cable connector into the green color-coded
"line out" port on the back of the docking station to which the laptop is
connected.

This cable is connected to the "digital in" on the sub-woofer. Another
cable connects the "digital out" port on the sub-woofer to the two cubes. A
third port on the sub-woofer is connected to the power supply.
 
David said:
I recently bought at new laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). Although the machine has
built-in speakers I was interested in hooking up my "old" speaker from my
previous desktop - a nice pair of Bose Cube speakers. I believe I've
connected everything correctly, but I'm not getting any sound. I assume I
need to install a driver or change a setting, but I'm not sure where to
start. Any help would be appreaciated. Thanks in advance.
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Click Start >> Control Panel>> Double click Sound, Speech, and Auto Devices.
Click on Sound and Audio Devices, on the Sound and Audio Devices properties
click on Audio Tab, under:
Sound Playback select your speaker from the drop down list:
[ Speaker device here ][v]
Also under Volume tab, under Speaker settings click on Advanced button and
make sure your Speaker is selected.
Or unplug it then plug it in and use the wizard to detect and configure the
speakers for you and test.
HTH.
nass
 
Nass: I tried both of your suggestions, but I wasn't able to get either to
work. As for the second suggestion (using the wizard) I got no popup Wizard
window.
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David


nass said:
David said:
I recently bought at new laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). Although the machine has
built-in speakers I was interested in hooking up my "old" speaker from my
previous desktop - a nice pair of Bose Cube speakers. I believe I've
connected everything correctly, but I'm not getting any sound. I assume I
need to install a driver or change a setting, but I'm not sure where to
start. Any help would be appreaciated. Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

Click Start >> Control Panel>> Double click Sound, Speech, and Auto Devices.
Click on Sound and Audio Devices, on the Sound and Audio Devices properties
click on Audio Tab, under:
Sound Playback select your speaker from the drop down list:
[ Speaker device here ][v]
Also under Volume tab, under Speaker settings click on Advanced button and
make sure your Speaker is selected.
Or unplug it then plug it in and use the wizard to detect and configure the
speakers for you and test.
HTH.
nass
Click to expand...
 
David said:
I followed the same wiring pattern as I had on my old Gateway desktop -
plugging the color-coded green cable connector into the green color-coded
"line out" port on the back of the docking station to which the laptop is
connected.

This cable is connected to the "digital in" on the sub-woofer. Another
cable connects the "digital out" port on the sub-woofer to the two cubes.
A
third port on the sub-woofer is connected to the power supply.
Click to expand...
Isn;t the "line out" socket an analog signal?
If so, why are you connecting to a "digital in" socket?
Jim
 
Try this, but it's from memory (and worse, from mine):

- Right click the volume icon in the system tray
- Open Volume Control
- You should get a window with volume controls for things like
"Wave", "CD Player". If you get "Line out" try that.
- If you don't get "Line Out" try the "Options" menu item; "Line Out"
may be hiding in there. My soundcard doesn't have a Line Out volume
control, so this window doesn't contain "Line Out" at all, hence the
guesswork, but I've seen it on other PC's.
- Try plugging headphones into the socket, to verify if there is signal
 
well, since it is a new
machine, i wouldn't spend
too much time on this issue.

instead you might pass it on
to the tech support for the
laptop since it is still under
warranty.

it might very well be that
the external speaker system
is defective or there is a
setting unique to your laptop
and havn't found where to
access it.

i suppose you havn't check out
the website for your laptop
and check out the faq's,
patches,
updates, etc...

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db ·´¯`·.¸. , .


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