Laptop external speaker problem

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Clownfetus

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I just bought a set of klipsch promedia 2.1 speakers for my laptop - if i plug the green computer speaker cable into my headphone jack (I have an hp tx1000, theres no speaker jack, just two headphone and a microphone jack) should i get sound from the speakers and sub? if so, vista wont recognize that i have speakers plugged in and i dont know how to change my speaker setup (i know on xp you would just pick from a list ex. 2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, etc)

any suggestions?
 
Headphone jacks don't detect speakers(well some do but it's very sketchy at best) And the "green" plug is only two channels. The sub is basically the combination of the two.
 
so i should be able to just plug that green plug into the headphone jack and sound should come from all three speakers?

thanks
 
Clownfetus said:
so i should be able to just plug that green plug into the headphone jack and sound should come from all three speakers?

thanks
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I'd try to look and see if you have any sound programs on your computer. I know most of my computers have realtek built in and there is usually a program where you can turn your headphone jack into lots of things, also open up your volume control and check that it's not muted.

PS: I hope you didn't pay the full $150+ retail of those Klipsch speakers, I got them on sale at Best Buy for a killer deal of $100, and I absolutely hated them(If you turned the bass level past half the sub broke up), I ended up getting the Logitech Z2300, and they are much better.
 
I can't see there being any different regardless of the setup on the computer. If the speakers only use one plug, the audio will most likely be fed into the sub then "divided" up as I mentioned above. Unless you have some special port that handles more than two channels(which I kind of doubt) there's really no other way to do it.

Now of course if the sub and satellites are somehow independent and require two inputs from the computer, then yes; you would have a problem :P But I can't think of any 2.1 speakers available that use anything more than the green "front-out"/primary plug...or whatever you wish to call it.
 
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