ok so when 10 days ago my dad said that he's changing his home theater setup i thought i could have his current one, philips HTS 8100 and use it setup a new surround audio setup for myself. i already had nice logitech's X-540 5.1 PC speakers but when you're playing battlefield 3 regularly you know can always use more audio-splosions :biggrin: to make it sound even better than it already is.
anyways so i started working on it. and here's the setup i came up with. i'll try to make this as brief as possible. (P.S.- i'll try.
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1. i connected both front and rear RIGHT speakers of the X-540 to the REAR RIGHT output of the X-540 subwoofer using RCA splitters. and did the same for left too. the center speaker i left untouched as it is.
after this i only had rear channel 3.5 mm of the sub woofer connected to the rear output of my onboard audio card on my PC. and of course, the center channel was also left connected.
i chose to have this setup because i wanted all 4 of my X-540 speakers handling the rear surround sound- 2 speakers for 1 side and 2 for the other.
2. i connected the philips hts8100( it's a sound bar home theater) to the pc using 3.5 mm to rca converter cable. the RCA end of this cable went into the auxilary outputs of the HTS8100 woofer and the 3.5 mm end went into the front output of my onboard audio card.
i wanted the bass-heavy and theater like effects and all the other stuff that forms the main bulk of any particular media content, which come from front speaker channel, to be played by the HTS 8100 so chose this way to set it up.
now when i had been 'calibrating' the system to play in the best way possible, i noticed this one strange humming-buzzing sound from the front hts8100 which i could hear whenever i was not playing game, music or anything. and it used to especially increase a bit whenever moved my mouse. i had noticed such case before a couple of times when either speakers were too old or things were to congested in one place around a pc system. the former couldn't be because the home theater system had been working fine when my dad was using it, it didn't produce any sounds like that then. and latter also is ruled out because i have totally separate table on which the PC sits with the APC 865 watt UPS that are at a distance of half to quarter feet from each other and the rest of the stuff the keyborad, mouse hts8100 with the(X-540) center speaker on another table. the display is mounted on wall. and surround speakers are far behind from the listening position meaning no-where near.
i googled the issue, saw some posts telling that there could a lot of factors but the one i thing i thought that might work was changing the 3.5mm-RCA converter cable. so i bought a new one(http://www.flipkart.com/belkin-f3y116bf5m-data-cable/p/itmdacchyvweyghn?pid=ACCDACCCWFHUPGV5) to replace it. after using that one the humming went away.
but i don't know what happened that just the day before yesterday my pc was working fine and then the next day it wouldn't even start and reach the asus motherboard logo screen.
as soon as i'd start the pc it'd power on for 4-5 secs secs and shuts down again for 4-5 secs. then again by itself it'd power back up again for 4-5 secs then shuts down again..... power on 4-5 secs.... shuts down 4-5 secs.....
this would go on if i don't switch off the PSU. so my first doubt went to my PSU only because out of everything i've that one thing is most questionable in my system. but i jump-started it and it was fine. i asked my friend to use it for awhile and his system ran fine even while playing games. i even had checked my other components in other systems to identify which could be causing the problem. in the end after one whole day of trouble shooting i found that it was in the motherboard and specifically the CPU 8-pin socket has taken damage somehow. why i'm saying that particular socket is damaged because when i'm only keeping the 24-pins from the PSU connected to the motherboard (from which i had disconnected, uninstalled and unloaded everything including the processor) and the cpu socket disconnected from the power then even the board is powering on fine. but as soon as i connect the CPU socket to PSU the same power-on, power-off issue returns.
so if anyone can let me know what possibly could have caused the problem then i'd really appreciate it so i can take care of it next time.
i'm already planning to change the PSU ASAP. but i also suspect the following:
1 for as long as the i used the original 3.5 mm to RCA cable, the board got damaged by it.
2. the philips hts8100 somehow supernaturally damaged it.
3. Bad-effing-luck.
anyways so i started working on it. and here's the setup i came up with. i'll try to make this as brief as possible. (P.S.- i'll try.
)1. i connected both front and rear RIGHT speakers of the X-540 to the REAR RIGHT output of the X-540 subwoofer using RCA splitters. and did the same for left too. the center speaker i left untouched as it is.
after this i only had rear channel 3.5 mm of the sub woofer connected to the rear output of my onboard audio card on my PC. and of course, the center channel was also left connected.
i chose to have this setup because i wanted all 4 of my X-540 speakers handling the rear surround sound- 2 speakers for 1 side and 2 for the other.
2. i connected the philips hts8100( it's a sound bar home theater) to the pc using 3.5 mm to rca converter cable. the RCA end of this cable went into the auxilary outputs of the HTS8100 woofer and the 3.5 mm end went into the front output of my onboard audio card.
i wanted the bass-heavy and theater like effects and all the other stuff that forms the main bulk of any particular media content, which come from front speaker channel, to be played by the HTS 8100 so chose this way to set it up.
now when i had been 'calibrating' the system to play in the best way possible, i noticed this one strange humming-buzzing sound from the front hts8100 which i could hear whenever i was not playing game, music or anything. and it used to especially increase a bit whenever moved my mouse. i had noticed such case before a couple of times when either speakers were too old or things were to congested in one place around a pc system. the former couldn't be because the home theater system had been working fine when my dad was using it, it didn't produce any sounds like that then. and latter also is ruled out because i have totally separate table on which the PC sits with the APC 865 watt UPS that are at a distance of half to quarter feet from each other and the rest of the stuff the keyborad, mouse hts8100 with the(X-540) center speaker on another table. the display is mounted on wall. and surround speakers are far behind from the listening position meaning no-where near.
i googled the issue, saw some posts telling that there could a lot of factors but the one i thing i thought that might work was changing the 3.5mm-RCA converter cable. so i bought a new one(http://www.flipkart.com/belkin-f3y116bf5m-data-cable/p/itmdacchyvweyghn?pid=ACCDACCCWFHUPGV5) to replace it. after using that one the humming went away.
but i don't know what happened that just the day before yesterday my pc was working fine and then the next day it wouldn't even start and reach the asus motherboard logo screen.
as soon as i'd start the pc it'd power on for 4-5 secs secs and shuts down again for 4-5 secs. then again by itself it'd power back up again for 4-5 secs then shuts down again..... power on 4-5 secs.... shuts down 4-5 secs.....
this would go on if i don't switch off the PSU. so my first doubt went to my PSU only because out of everything i've that one thing is most questionable in my system. but i jump-started it and it was fine. i asked my friend to use it for awhile and his system ran fine even while playing games. i even had checked my other components in other systems to identify which could be causing the problem. in the end after one whole day of trouble shooting i found that it was in the motherboard and specifically the CPU 8-pin socket has taken damage somehow. why i'm saying that particular socket is damaged because when i'm only keeping the 24-pins from the PSU connected to the motherboard (from which i had disconnected, uninstalled and unloaded everything including the processor) and the cpu socket disconnected from the power then even the board is powering on fine. but as soon as i connect the CPU socket to PSU the same power-on, power-off issue returns.
so if anyone can let me know what possibly could have caused the problem then i'd really appreciate it so i can take care of it next time.
i'm already planning to change the PSU ASAP. but i also suspect the following:
1 for as long as the i used the original 3.5 mm to RCA cable, the board got damaged by it.
2. the philips hts8100 somehow supernaturally
damaged it.3. Bad-effing-luck.
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