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Help connecting speakers please

post #1 of 9
2/27/05 at 10:29pm
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I received free Bose Companion 3 speakers through work, but cannot get them to work on my Dell Inspiron XPS notebook. Can anyone help me or refer me to a link that can help me get them to work? Thank you.
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post #2 of 9
3/5/05 at 12:33pm
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This should be easy for many of you, not one person can help me out here? A link... anything? I thought this would be easiier than sitting on hold with Dell.
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post #3 of 9
3/5/05 at 4:57pm
Well fom what I understand you should just plug them into the headphone port, and then give them power and voila. You do need to give us a little more info like what you have done so far, what exactly isn't working whether the internal laptop speakers work etc. people havn't responded beucase what you gave us was to vauge.
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post #4 of 9
3/6/05 at 1:15am
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Be honest, you are really Jimmy Fallon from SNL aren't you, doing your computer geek skit.

I wish I knew what more to say. I plugged them in, I've heard an initial pop, then nothing. I have done that a few times. I'm sure I am missing some simple step, but I don't know what it is. I thought if somehow there were typical steps to connnecting speakers someone could post I would figure it out. I followed the illustrated diagrams that came with the speakers, but nothing.

I was joking above, but you mocked me first. I am decidedly not a Computer Geek. I wish I were more of one.
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post #5 of 9
3/6/05 at 11:15am
Maybe its your soundcard drivers? Do you get sound with all your other sound output devices?
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post #6 of 9
3/6/05 at 4:34pm
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I do. I get sound through the laptop speaker and when I listen with headphones.
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post #7 of 9
3/6/05 at 4:55pm
why don't you tell us how you have wired it:

didn't the bose come with instructions?
check the volume level on the bose control module, plug in the bose ac cord
make sure you haven't plugged the cable from lappie to headphone on bose control module. from my understanding you can connect to the subwoofer or to the bose control module in the aux input

the manual is supposed to be very clear with diagrams...also tap the control module to see if it was muted
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post #8 of 9
3/6/05 at 5:15pm


does the bose thing work on someting other than the lappie? if not, maybe you blew the fuse in the subwoofer
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post #9 of 9
3/6/05 at 7:01pm
plug some headphones on your laptop. See if they work. If they do, you need to do something with the bose speakers.
After that, take a walman or mini disc or something like that and plug it to the bose speakers, do they work with the walkman?
Also check the simplest things, they are usually the ones that you miss checking up cause you think you have done right. For example, check if you have plugged them to the microphone.
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