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Problems after new sigmatel driver

post #1 of 7
3/8/04 at 1:32pm
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I have my I8600 hooked up to the docking station. I have my speakers plugged in to the speaker/headphone jack on the left side of the docking station.

Before the new sigmatel driver I installed last night the music and sound worked fine through the speakers. Now I can't even hear audio files over the speakers. I unplug the speakers and it plays fine through the laptop speakers.

Could the new download driver be causing this?

How do I uninstall the new download and revert back to the old one that works?

I have noticed on previous occasions before the new driver was downloaded that at times it didn't come through the speakers. Could it be something else?
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post #2 of 7
3/8/04 at 6:40pm
In control panel check all your volume settings to make sure one didn't get muted for some reason. That happened to me before when I updated a driver.
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post #3 of 7
3/9/04 at 2:05am
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I checked all that but still no luck.
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post #4 of 7
3/9/04 at 9:01am
have u noticed in the control panel's sigma options the text is crap?
they couldn't even spell it correctly.
it's cut on the right by the bracket text.
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post #5 of 7
3/9/04 at 12:15pm
i dont know about this but doesnt the docking station have its own line out jack, have you try to plug the speakers to that jack?
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post #6 of 7
3/10/04 at 1:23am
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It only has an audio connector on the left side. That's the only plug available for the speakers...at least the speakers I have.
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post #7 of 7
3/10/04 at 2:46am
Let me see if I got this right ..
So you have your speakers plugged into the speaker jack (#3) on the left side of the docking station and your not getting any sound



When you unplug the speakers it plays fine out of the laptops speakers??? If so it sounds like you either have a set of bad external speakers or the actual speaker jack on the docking station is faulty ..

Do headphones work when plugged into the docking station headphone port? If so bad speakers if not then possible bad jack on docking station ..

Normally software doesn't have much of a function on the speaker/headphone jack .. Its more hardware operated .. when the plug is inserted it electrically cuts off the internal speakers causing sound to emit thru the external speakers/headphones ..
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