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post #21 of 33
1/18/05 at 4:17pm
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Originally Posted by skifiend
Nothing about the audio connection in the S-video in the Manual or any documentation that I could find on the 8600.
Are you sure? I bought my 8600 (with all the ports) for my office last february and remember that the manual did mentioned it in the section that explained how to connect the laptop to the TV. In fact, that s-video converter came with my 8600 but I did not order it explicitly.
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post #22 of 33
1/18/05 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
Are you sure? I bought my 8600 (with all the ports) for my office last february and remember that the manual did mentioned it in the section that explained how to connect the laptop to the TV. In fact, that s-video converter came with my 8600 but I did not order it explicitly.
The manual is here .

In the section that you are referring to, they talk about connecting the S-Video to an S-video jack, and the S-Video to Composite video. In each instance, they explicity say that the audio has to come from the headphone out. Take a look.
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post #23 of 33
1/18/05 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
In fact, that s-video converter came with my 8600 but I did not order it explicitly.
They stopped providing that with every laptop, and now they charge for it.
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post #24 of 33
1/18/05 at 7:20pm
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Originally Posted by skifiend
The manual is here .

In the section that you are referring to, they talk about connecting the S-Video to an S-video jack, and the S-Video to Composite video. In each instance, they explicity say that the audio has to come from the headphone out. Take a look.
Ahh..so they re-wrote the manual as well for the newer 8600. The manual for the older 8600 that mentions SPDIF and the converter is here:
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/i8600-om.pdf

The question now is whether the SPDIF output will work on the newer 8600's. By the way, the 600m manual doesn't mention it eaither but has a 7-pin port. I tried the RCA out (yellow) and the s-video out on that converter but never the audio out.
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post #25 of 33
1/18/05 at 7:40pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
Ahh..so they re-wrote the manual as well for the newer 8600. The manual for the older 8600 that mentions SPDIF and the converter is here:
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/i8600-om.pdf

The question now is whether the SPDIF output will work on the newer 8600's. By the way, the 600m manual doesn't mention it eaither but has a 7-pin port. I tried the RCA out (yellow) and the s-video out on that converter but never the audio out.
Thanks for the link. Now I see what you were talking about. My guess would be that the SPDIF does not work in the new one. Otherwise, why go through the trouble of editing the manual? The reason couldn't be that they wanted to hide the capability just because they aren't sending the cable adapter any more.

I'm willing to let someone else go ahead and try this out & let us know. I already did the experiment with whether the Spare Parts 8X DVD+RW was the NEC ND-6500a (it was). Someone else's turn.
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post #26 of 33
1/23/05 at 11:33am

No SPDIF on new 8600

I bought an 8600 in 2/04. DHL lost it when I sent it in for service. Dell sent me one of these newer ones to replace it. The SPDIF does NOT work. I'm not very happy with Dell in general, and this really pisses me off. The laptop was my DVD player. Is there any usb->SPDIF out there. I already need to by a USB->serial, cause they took that off too. Of course, with only 2 usb ports, I'm going to run out of space quick. Maybe I should just hawk the ne one on ebay...
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post #27 of 33
1/23/05 at 12:24pm
Mmm, just a thought : I don't think that SPDIF out will be what you want, since it's a digital output and you are looking for a line out analog output. I suppose that your need for a line out jack is for connecting your 8600 audio to some external equipment that saturates and distorts when you use the headphones jack. If this is the case, then i think that your best option would be to buy a extension cord for the jack with an inline attenuator (a volume control) i suppose that if you can put 20 or 40dB of attenuation in the line, your eternal equipment will stop distorting...
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post #28 of 33
1/23/05 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by hazelton
I bought an 8600 in 2/04. DHL lost it when I sent it in for service. Dell sent me one of these newer ones to replace it. The SPDIF does NOT work.
Interesting. Did you connect the 7-pin mini-DIN adapter (mentioned in earlier posts in this thread) to S-video and try to connect the audio to that?
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post #29 of 33
1/23/05 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by skifiend
Interesting. Did you connect the 7-pin mini-DIN adapter (mentioned in earlier posts in this thread) to S-video and try to connect the audio to that?
Yes, I still had the adaptor from the original 8600: 7-pin to S/PDIF, composite, s-video. The connector on the back if the new 8600 is still 7-pin. The s-video works, but the S/PDIF does nothing.
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post #30 of 33
1/23/05 at 4:27pm
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Originally Posted by hazelton
Yes, I still had the adaptor from the original 8600: 7-pin to S/PDIF, composite, s-video. The connector on the back if the new 8600 is still 7-pin. The s-video works, but the S/PDIF does nothing.
Dang! That's too bad. It explains why they changed the i8600 manual. Thanks for the info, hazelton. Saves me from buying the adapter for nothing.
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post #31 of 33
1/23/05 at 7:05pm
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Originally Posted by hazelton
Yes, I still had the adaptor from the original 8600: 7-pin to S/PDIF, composite, s-video. The connector on the back if the new 8600 is still 7-pin. The s-video works, but the S/PDIF does nothing.
When you double click on the speaker icon in the taskbar and go to advanced is the SPDIF box checked? Even if it is it probably means nothing. Anyway, I hear that you need a docking station to get it to work.
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post #32 of 33
1/23/05 at 10:42pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
When you double click on the speaker icon in the taskbar and go to advanced is the SPDIF box checked? Even if it is it probably means nothing. Anyway, I hear that you need a docking station to get it to work.
Yeah, they didn't bother to get rid of S/PDIF in the driver. If you go to advanced in the volume control you can check to enable it. Of course, PowerDVD lets you select it too, in the options. I can't believe Dell was so cheap as to get rid of the wire/trace to from the CODEC to the port. I just ordered a SIIG Soundwave USB 5.1 from buy.com for $30. It's supposed to give me an optical S/PDIF out. We'll see...
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post #33 of 33
1/23/05 at 10:50pm
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Originally Posted by hazelton
Yeah, they didn't bother to get rid of S/PDIF in the driver. If you go to advanced in the volume control you can check to enable it. Of course, PowerDVD lets you select it too, in the options. I can't believe Dell was so cheap as to get rid of the wire/trace to from the CODEC to the port. I just ordered a SIIG Soundwave USB 5.1 from buy.com for $30. It's supposed to give me an optical S/PDIF out. We'll see...
I can believe it. I have the Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA card which has a S/PDIF out. So that's another option for those who want S/PDIF and better than on-board sound in a small-form mobile solution.
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