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How do I get the headphone jack on the front of my computer to work when I have a Philips sound card?

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KingNothing

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I just bought a Dell Dimension 8250. It comes with integrated SoundMax audio and a headphone jack on the front of the case. The wire from that jack goes to what looks like a custom plug on the motherboard. I have a Philips 5.1 sound card that I installed and use for my speakers. The integrated sound is enabled in the BIOS.

If I go into Audio Properties and set the default playback device to SoundMax, my headphones work but my speakers do not. If I set it to Philips, my speakers work but the headphones don't. Is there anything I can do here?
 
unplug the headphone jack from the mobo and look for a similar sized socket at the top of your sound card (TAD or Aux In maybe?). Fr is correct, you are essentially using 2 standard sound devices, which I wouldn't recommend. If that works disable onboard sound in your BIOS.

Chiz
 
The headphone jack is part of a custom circuit board that has the frontside USB ports on it. There is an IDE-like ribbon cable and a custom 8-pin plug from the circuit board to the motherboard. I'm thinking the 8-pin plug is for the headphone jack because it's next to the integrated sound's 4-pin audio-in plugs.

The problem is that headphones are an output, not an input. What good would plugging them into TAD-in or AUX-in do, even if the plug fit, which it doesn't? There is a 4-pin connector on the circuit board labeled "Ext Spkr" and a 5-pin plug labeled "Intruder" but I don't have a 4-pin output on my soundcard so I'm at a loss.

I have a Philips PSC705, Seismic Edge 5.1 sound card.
 
disable the onboard sound, you dont need it.

Buy a Y adapter, 3x female 1/8" stereo if you want to be able to have both the speakers and headphones on at the same time. or buy a switch which allows you to switch which gets the sound. frankly, i just use speakers which have a headphone jack... now, if you want to keep that front headphone jack, you can attach a cable to it (splicing) which is fed to the Y adaper or switch.

while it is possible to have 2 sound cards coexisting, it is not possible to have both being active with respect to an application which calls for sound due to directX calls and such. of course it is possible to have 2 applications use both cards, i dont see why that is useful unless you work with audio.
 
Originally posted by: Mday
disable the onboard sound, you dont need it.

Buy a Y adapter, 3x female 1/8" stereo if you want to be able to have both the speakers and headphones on at the same time. or buy a switch which allows you to switch which gets the sound. frankly, i just use speakers which have a headphone jack... now, if you want to keep that front headphone jack, you can attach a cable to it (splicing) which is fed to the Y adaper or switch.

while it is possible to have 2 sound cards coexisting, it is not possible to have both being active with respect to an application which calls for sound due to directX calls and such. of course it is possible to have 2 applications use both cards, i dont see why that is useful unless you work with audio.
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yup. you're not going to be able to use the front panel jacks.
 
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