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HP500 mini tower
Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

Hi All,

 

I have an older mini-tower (HP500, Win7x64) that is primarily used to play music, via green line out, to a Bose Wave's aux input. It just quit playing sounds of any type after years of flawless operation. I can open "sounds" in the CP and watch the db output meters moving, yet no sound. The Bose is fine, at least the radio input. I plan on further testing with another speaker system as soon as I find one, but I have a gut feeling the internal sound chip is dead.

 

Assuming it is dead, what card is recommended and do they just "plug and play" after finding the drivers?

 

TIA!

 

Russ

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It was the Bose, after further testing it seems the aux port circuitry is dead. Replaced the Bose with an (old) Klipsch subwoofer/satellite speaker I had up in the attic and it plays fine again.

 

Russ

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