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low sound from dell 4600

by Tony
(Paramus NJ)

I will gladly give a kudo to solve this. I have a 2003 dell inspiron 4600. I added a vidio card and a soundblaster audio card. It worked beautifully for years. Last week I tried to transfer vinyl to digital by hooking my samsung amped record player to the line in of the sound blaster. I added and deleted an old CD Dell Jukebox Musicmatch. I accidentally deleted Dell jukebox explorer also and lost my media audio control. I was able to reinstall that. My sound is extremely low even though all of the volume controls that I have been able to locate are set at high. I play through media monkey or windows media player. I have visited Dell site and downloaded driver updates from there. Help.

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Apr 10, 2009
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Audio Card
by: Support

Hello Tony,

I think you blew up the amp on the Sound Blaster "samsung amped record player to the line in of the sound blaster".

The reason I say this the line in can only take milliamps of input such as a mircophone or the sound out from a radio using a pass through cable from the headset port to the line in port.

The only test I can think of would be to either take the sound card to another computer or barrow a sound card from another computer and see what happens.

My opinion is your sound blaster is not blasting anymore.

I have an old SoundBlaster PCI 512 that will not amplify anymore either so I use is for my VOIP, works good for recording and talking with a mic...

Hope this helps...

Apr 11, 2009
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thank you for input
by: Anonymous

Thank you Support for your input. The windows checker tells me that the audio card is working properly, but I will head down to micro center to pick up a card and try it. Thanks again for trying to help me with this problem. I will let you know what happens. Tony

Apr 11, 2009
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Thank You, Thank you verry much. (Elvis)
by: Tony

First of all Kudos all around to Support, Monte and DYI. My sound is back. In less than one day after finding this site I am now sitting here listening to The Dells take me back to 1959 by hearing "Oh What A Night". Donna is next up. I installed an inland 6 channel PCI Sound Card. I still did not have any sound from any port on the card. Just by chance I plugged the speakers into my old unused onboard speaker port. It played. Not thru the card but thru the unused system. I am not trying anything else. Thank you Very Much. If you have any suggestions about transferring vinyl to digital I would appreciate it. I am going to ask DYI to submit that one next. Look for it. Thanx. Tony from Paramus.