Laptop sound issues

gameman733 · July 27th, 2005

Finally got the screen to fix my laptop today (yay) and got windows 2k installed on it. Found out i dont have any sound though. I wasnt expecting sound through the speakers because i kinda broke the plug, but expected something from the headphones jack. Well, i just noticed it kicked on some time while web surfing. so i thought to myself, ok no big deal. its just gonna do that every so often. Then I found out I could push down on an area of the keyboard and it kicks on and off. I also noticed an odd side effect, my laptop turns into a huge microphone. Im talking i can tap on the laptop keyboard and it comes through the headphones, loud and clear.

The area thats affecting it is about where the memory goes on the bottom, except this is the top of the bottom if you understand that. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas. Its a thinkpad 600

Edit: ok its the mic port thats causing the noise and windows was set to echo the mic port. duh, thought i had checked that. But i still need to press down to turn the sound on, so any thoughts on that would be apreciated.

**General Plot** · July 27th, 2005

My old Dell Inspiron 8000 (P3 700) had the same issue with the onboard sound card. The only fix for mine was a motherboard replacement. This sounds like the same thing that was causing mine to do that, which was a short in the jack.

gameman733 · July 27th, 2005

Im not even pushing down on the jack, im pushing down on the motherboard. maybe i should take the mobo out and see whats underneith where im pushing

**General Plot** · July 27th, 2005

Is the jack on the same side of the laptop as where you're pushing it down at?

gameman733 · July 28th, 2005

yeah, ive been working all day so i havent gotten a chance to look at whats under where im pushing

July 27th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
gameman733 Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: no where Posts: 338	Laptop sound issues Finally got the screen to fix my laptop today (yay) and got windows 2k installed on it. Found out i dont have any sound though. I wasnt expecting sound through the speakers because i kinda broke the plug, but expected something from the headphones jack. Well, i just noticed it kicked on some time while web surfing. so i thought to myself, ok no big deal. its just gonna do that every so often. Then I found out I could push down on an area of the keyboard and it kicks on and off. I also noticed an odd side effect, my laptop turns into a huge microphone. Im talking i can tap on the laptop keyboard and it comes through the headphones, loud and clear. The area thats affecting it is about where the memory goes on the bottom, except this is the top of the bottom if you understand that. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas. Its a thinkpad 600 Edit: ok its the mic port thats causing the noise and windows was set to echo the mic port. duh, thought i had checked that. But i still need to press down to turn the sound on, so any thoughts on that would be apreciated. __________________ Desktop: CPU:Athlon XP 2400+ Mobo:Shuttle AK32VN Memory:256MB PC2100 DDR-RAM + 512 PC2700 DDR-RAM Video Card:Apollo Geforce 6600GT + HDTV out Hard Drives: Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM + Maxtor 120GB 5400 RPM + Maxtor 20GB DVD+RW: Lite-on LDW-401S 4x Running XP Pro SP2 Linbox (R.I.P, Dead Motherboard)(server): CPU: 1.4ghz Athlon Mobo: ECS K7S5A Memory: 2x64MB SDRAM Video Card: ATI Rage something Drives: hda: 6 GB HD hdc: DVD-rom Drive Running Debian Sarge Last edited by gameman733; July 27th, 2005 at 06:04.

July 27th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
General Plot Britchie Crazy Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Plymouth, UK Posts: 4,793	My old Dell Inspiron 8000 (P3 700) had the same issue with the onboard sound card. The only fix for mine was a motherboard replacement. This sounds like the same thing that was causing mine to do that, which was a short in the jack. __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2 GB PC6400 DDR2 RAM \| GeForce 7900 GTX 2.5 TB Hard Drive Space \| Windows XP Pro SP2 Check out my site: http://generalplot.atspace.com Official betatester of PCSX2 and Co-owner of General Emulation

July 27th, 2005	#3 (permalink)
gameman733 Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: no where Posts: 338	Im not even pushing down on the jack, im pushing down on the motherboard. maybe i should take the mobo out and see whats underneith where im pushing __________________ Desktop: CPU:Athlon XP 2400+ Mobo:Shuttle AK32VN Memory:256MB PC2100 DDR-RAM + 512 PC2700 DDR-RAM Video Card:Apollo Geforce 6600GT + HDTV out Hard Drives: Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM + Maxtor 120GB 5400 RPM + Maxtor 20GB DVD+RW: Lite-on LDW-401S 4x Running XP Pro SP2 Linbox (R.I.P, Dead Motherboard)(server): CPU: 1.4ghz Athlon Mobo: ECS K7S5A Memory: 2x64MB SDRAM Video Card: ATI Rage something Drives: hda: 6 GB HD hdc: DVD-rom Drive Running Debian Sarge

July 27th, 2005	#4 (permalink)
General Plot Britchie Crazy Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Plymouth, UK Posts: 4,793	Is the jack on the same side of the laptop as where you're pushing it down at? __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 \| 2 GB PC6400 DDR2 RAM \| GeForce 7900 GTX 2.5 TB Hard Drive Space \| Windows XP Pro SP2 Check out my site: http://generalplot.atspace.com Official betatester of PCSX2 and Co-owner of General Emulation

July 28th, 2005	#5 (permalink)
gameman733 Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: no where Posts: 338	yeah, ive been working all day so i havent gotten a chance to look at whats under where im pushing __________________ Desktop: CPU:Athlon XP 2400+ Mobo:Shuttle AK32VN Memory:256MB PC2100 DDR-RAM + 512 PC2700 DDR-RAM Video Card:Apollo Geforce 6600GT + HDTV out Hard Drives: Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM + Maxtor 120GB 5400 RPM + Maxtor 20GB DVD+RW: Lite-on LDW-401S 4x Running XP Pro SP2 Linbox (R.I.P, Dead Motherboard)(server): CPU: 1.4ghz Athlon Mobo: ECS K7S5A Memory: 2x64MB SDRAM Video Card: ATI Rage something Drives: hda: 6 GB HD hdc: DVD-rom Drive Running Debian Sarge

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