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[khyber]

The strangest thing..suddenly my computer makes NO sound at all.
I used external speakers at home. no problem.
sound could come from the onboard (laptop) speakers.
everything cool

I take it to school and plug in some externals for our "dance party". nothing comes out.
unplug the speakers, nothing comes out from onboard.

So now i can't even imagine where the problem starts.
Well, i have one stupid guess that doesn't even make sense.
Since my externals at home are pretty good and have a woofer, methinks that MAYBE it eats up enough electricity that nothing really gets to my computer (oh my computer is from back home and uses the 110V).
But with the school externals it's just the two smalls that plug into the wall.

The only guess i have is based on a couple things.

1) the problem has anything at all to do with the school's speakers
2) electricity from speakers to some extent does travel up the chords and into the computer...(non)

I think that maybe my sound card got friend by the school's speakers.

Is this even possible?
Does anyone have more reasonable suggestions?
I'm hoping to bring it to the local computer market and have them have a looksy.
but i'm stumped...(though i don't know much about computers...)

help please

[Giant]

What I would do if I were you is plug another device into the speakers at the school and see what happens. (not something of yours, ie an mp3 player)

Power (110 or 220) has got nothing to do with it. Since the speakers are more than likely Korean they are probably 220v anyway. But again, its got nothing to do with power rating. (unless the speakers are broken and in some way the put 220v into the mini-jack connection that went into your laptop.

Also, when you say externals, what do you mean exactly? Are they just some ordinary PC speakers?

Your point no. 2 is not correct. Power would not travel through the audio cable. (unless there was a major fault with the speakers)

Finally, one thing you can do is check your "Device Manager". Do you have any yellow question marks there?

[khyber]

So it took me that long to get off my phataz and get all this stuff sorted out....and boy oh boy...

So i took it into the busan computer market in myeonyoung dong in busan (not a bad place i figger). I thought i'd be easy enough to figure out what needed to be done. Unfortunately, my lack of korean was a big pain in the butt, until a dude directed me towards the proper store :oops: .
a laptop service centre.

I was told.
That the problem was INDEED that my soundcard got fried.
Now, i don't consider myself a computer expert by ANY means but i was surprised to find out i was RIGHT on this score. I still am figuring it happenned when i plugged those crappy a$3 school external speakers but i can't prove it (though the timing seems to speak for itself...).

The VERY bad news is that my sound card was "incorporated" into my motherboad (i don't know the proper technogeek word...). So that really sucks.

BUT, the good news PAST that is that the guy has a used external soundcard to sell us. SWEET!!!! The whole reason we bought a laptop is so that we could bring music from home to korea.

WARNING TO ALL!!!! If something looks shifty, that's reason enough NOT to plug your computer into it. :wink: :roll: stupid me...

[jazblanc77]

The reason why your sound was incorporated into your motherboard is because you were just using it's onboard sound capabilities instead of actually having/using a true sound card.