When you plug into the jack do you see on the screen a popup box asking whether you plugged in a mic or line-in device? If not, go to Start/Control Panel/ Sigmatel and check the 'allow popups' box. Then plug in the mic again and select 'line-in'.
If you are running Vista or 7 operating system, be sure the Sigmatel driver is installed and that the audio driver is not the generic one in Windows.
I don't know of any way to manually set the jack to be mono, so if the above does not help it might be a fault in the jack.
"When you plug into the jack do you see on the screen a popup box asking whether you plugged in a mic or line-in device?"
Yes, and Line In is the option I select.
"If you are running Vista or 7 operating system, be sure the Sigmatel driver is installed and that the audio driver is not the generic one in Windows."
The system says the Line In device is the SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC. Driver version 6.10.0.5614.
" if the above does not help it might be a fault in the jack."
I really don't want to hear that. The combination of this computer and Windows Vista has been a real pain in the posterior from day one and this would be the last straw for me.
Try using the generic audio driver in Vista and see if you get a different result. I am not sure how the jack circuit is configured when using the generic driver.
I suppose you have have verified that the souce material is sterro, and that the cable is stereo and is not itself faulty?
"I suppose you have have verified that the souce material is sterro, and that the cable is stereo and is not itself faulty?"
Yea. My first thought was that there was a problem with the cable (most likely suspect) so I switched the positions of the RCA connectors on the back of my receiver. If the cable was bad, the out put (I hate not having live monitoring on this dang thing) would have switched speakers (right to left). It didn't so the source and the cable are putting out a good stereo signal. The issue is definitely inside the computer.
I'll try the generic thing but I'm not very hopeful.
Jim Coates
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February 17th, 2011 19:00
When you plug into the jack do you see on the screen a popup box asking whether you plugged in a mic or line-in device? If not, go to Start/Control Panel/ Sigmatel and check the 'allow popups' box. Then plug in the mic again and select 'line-in'.
If you are running Vista or 7 operating system, be sure the Sigmatel driver is installed and that the audio driver is not the generic one in Windows.
I don't know of any way to manually set the jack to be mono, so if the above does not help it might be a fault in the jack.
LDMartin1959
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February 17th, 2011 21:00
"When you plug into the jack do you see on the screen a popup box asking whether you plugged in a mic or line-in device?"
Yes, and Line In is the option I select.
"If you are running Vista or 7 operating system, be sure the Sigmatel driver is installed and that the audio driver is not the generic one in Windows."
The system says the Line In device is the SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC. Driver version 6.10.0.5614.
" if the above does not help it might be a fault in the jack."
I really don't want to hear that. The combination of this computer and Windows Vista has been a real pain in the posterior from day one and this would be the last straw for me.
Jim Coates
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February 18th, 2011 04:00
Try using the generic audio driver in Vista and see if you get a different result. I am not sure how the jack circuit is configured when using the generic driver.
I suppose you have have verified that the souce material is sterro, and that the cable is stereo and is not itself faulty?
LDMartin1959
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February 18th, 2011 07:00
"I suppose you have have verified that the souce material is sterro, and that the cable is stereo and is not itself faulty?"
Yea. My first thought was that there was a problem with the cable (most likely suspect) so I switched the positions of the RCA connectors on the back of my receiver. If the cable was bad, the out put (I hate not having live monitoring on this dang thing) would have switched speakers (right to left). It didn't so the source and the cable are putting out a good stereo signal. The issue is definitely inside the computer.
I'll try the generic thing but I'm not very hopeful.