Enable soundcard?

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14.12 Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 10:24, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> > Success! I found a set of amped speakers with subwoofer. Connecting them
> > to the back Line Out socket using Analog Stereo Out works with a sound
> > quality and volume good enough for me. Except that the speakers keep
> > giving this ticking sound, even when not plugged into pc. Is that just
> > because it's some old crap I found? It's probably 15-20 years old or
> > more. (Altech Lansing?)
> Great!
> 
> So maybe the mobo-maker's labelling is poor. A headphone socket should
> be amplified, normally, whereas "line out" uses line-level,
> unamplified, signalling and needs speakers with active amplification.
> It sounds like that is what you've got.

Looks like it

> Nothing wrong with Altec Lansings, by the way! My gorgeous 2015 Retina
> iMac has a 1980s Apple mechanical keyboard and a 1990s set of Altecs
> with subwoofer plugged in to the headphone socket.

So you don't go for the latest fad either? ;)

> > I looked in the bios, but the only thing I could find was:
> It is unlikely to help the sound issue, but a BIOS upgrade is always a
> good idea anyway. While you're in there, check the version, and see if
> it is the latest on the maker's website.

You're absolutely right.  Embarrassingly it would be a first time for me. 
One of the issues I just don't think about.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards

Thomas Tanghus

A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q: Why is top posting bad?
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