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This will probably disgust you or at least make you shake your head. I have a 600E with no sound (that way when I got it), I've changed Every thing except the Mobo (litterly). So my question ; Can I put a PCMIA sound card in this to get sound that's independant of the sys. audio??? If so what kind/brand ?
This is a cherry little 600E and some how I've Got to get Audio working.Dont want to chg. mobo.
Some reply's would be nice, jimmy

Is there sound through the headphone outlet?

Have you opened the unit and reseated everything?

What, specifically, have you changed?

Regards,

James

Should work. Below some links to check out.

http://www.computergate.com/products/pr ... seq=C3EX01

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Creative ... sound+card

http://www.zzounds.com/cat--2422

One thing I forgot to add, make sure the headphone jack makes contact. Headphone jacks unplug the internal sound when the headphones are plugged in. If the contacts on the jack aren't working good, you can lose internal sound - although you should still get sound through the headphones.

James,
I changed the Modem, the Keyboard, the Cable to the Video Adapter, then the Video adapter card. There is no sound at the Audio Out port. All the function's in The Device Mgr. show all sound& video Driver's installed & functioning properly, no Conflict's shown. All the Audio function's show Resource's being used & again no conflict's.
jimmy

P.S I did the same Device Mgr. check's With 98 installed, 2K installed, XP-Pro installed (with & without SP2)

P.P.S. Would it be worthwhile to Remove all Audio Driver's and re-load them?????

I know this sounds stupid but have you checked to see if the sound is turned down or off in the Sound Control Panel? It could be as simple as this...often overlooked by my students who think their laptops are broken.

Tried Fn + PgUP - the shortcut key for volume up?

How about running the DirectX diagnostic check.
Open the Run box and enter:

dxdiag

Look at the Audio tab.
See any problems? - try running the tests.

warwound.

Thank's for the input's, Control Panel ckd. many times, will try the directx, test this AM.
Again than you all. jimmy

As suggested above, press Fn+PgUp many times. There are 8 volume levels on the 600E, so press it a lot.

Check the skinny ribbon cord on the bottom of the keyboard for tears, make sure the plugs are clean. and the connectors. take a pencel eraser to the the plug and clean it, if that dosen't work, try replaceing the cord itself, if that dosen't work replace the speakers. if not that replace the subcard. go to the easy setup and run a motherboard test, if an X apperas with some numbers below it give me those numbers. do this first.
I had a customer with the same problem. i noticed some sort of gunk on the plug, cleaned it off, all was fine.

I'm a rank newbie here, but I have to agree with "warwound"...I was just complaining about the sound level being so low even after I went in and tweaked everything on the Master Control panel....

Then I hit FN and PgUp several times and bingo----it ain't Dolby 7.1, but jumpin' jehosaphat, it's LOUD.

Fn and Backspace is mute...if that has been hit somewhere it could be the answer to all of your problems.

It work's , after all this the Fn+PgUp ( 8/9times) and Ihave audio. Even though I'm embarrased to Post this ,I'm relieved and happy it work's.
Thank all of you for your suggestion's and support. jimmy

No worries, I've BEEN there! Just glad that it works now!

I thought my sound was bad too -- could barely hear it with volume control all the way up! Reboot doesn't help either. Then I tried the keyboard (fn) volume control...

My other laptop (an HP PIII 700) has a default mid level setting. The 600 series stays wherever you left it last! That's a bit unusual. As told hear, has bitten several of us!

Glad my suggestion lead to a solution. Sometimes it's easy to make things more difficult than they really are