And honestly, if you actually bother to look through those local grocery stores—I mean, really check the shelves—Walmart isn't always 100% accurate anyway. Personally, I haven't seen them listed in any of their current stock.
It doesn't actually have a dedicated headphone jack—so you won't find one there—but you can just hook up the first three top connectors to your sound card using two cables. Then, the 4th and 5th connectors are meant for plugging into a console, a PlayStation, or whatever else you're running, while those five bottom connectors are where you plug in your satellite speakers.
Are you plugging those headphones into the speaker jack or the front panel?
"when I plug my headphones into that speaker port, nothing sounds right, and if I use the headphones, there's no sound at all" — what is that even supposed to mean? Your headphones aren't going to work through the line-out channel because it lacks the necessary juice—the headphone jack has its own dedicated amp specifically for that reason. So, where exactly did you plug them in?
It’s an ATI Radeon HD 3650, obviously—we're talking about a gap of several whole generations here—and while your CPU is definitely a bit too weak to keep up with it, at least you aren't stuck with that 6800 which is absolute garbage.
Christian Morris2 said:Has anyone else run into weirdness with their speakers on Windows 7? I just finished installing Windows 7 yesterday and I've got this 5.1 setup running—brand new Intel drivers too. Everything sounds perfect when I run the driver test, but the second I pull up a YouTube clip or play a song from my hard drive, everything goes haywire. Only the two main speakers and the subwoofer actually work; the center channel and the rear two just make this low, pathetic crackling sound where there should be audio. It’s driving me nuts. To make things even more annoying, if I plug headphones into the jack for the dead speaker, I get absolutely nothing there either. Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? Thanks!
Did you try toggling the speaker fill option in the Intel Manager?
- It doesn't even have an 80+ certification - It’s packed with cheap, bottom-tier capacitors - There's only one single regulator handling all the rails—which basically means you're looking at terrible voltage regulation and way too much fluctuation - It only comes with one PCIe cable
Paul Wright7 said:http://217.14.221.177/StartEU.ashx?_...ymTqERUI2MKNFg
Issus, man, what kind of joke is this website? It looks like a corner store run by a toddler. 🤣 They clearly messed up their web certificate—somebody got confused and grabbed someone else's instead. 😬
I’m pretty sure those 57xx cards weren't even built with a 256-bit memory bus to begin with—but hey, maybe double-check some retailer sites just to be safe. I was browsing Best Buy earlier and spotted that EVGA model listed, though it’s nowhere to be found on AMD's official price list. It shows up in a PC Magazine listing too, but you'd have to check if they can actually source it. A few other shops I checked don't even carry the card, so while Best Buy is a decent starting point, their inventory database is clearly a bit of a mess. As for your power supply—honestly, I don't think it's going to cut it for a 5830. We're looking at a 175W TDP here, so you really need to check how much juice that PSU actually pushes through the 12V rail (it should be labeled right on the unit).
Look, you're talking about a server power supply here—if it's only putting out 350W, I've already told you, I wouldn't mess around with that... the 5830 should be significantly more expensive than what you're seeing, so you might want to double-check what clock speeds those cards are actually running at.
Donna Martin4 didn't even ask for a repair shop address—look, if someone asks where they can take their PC to get it fixed, feel free to drop a link. I’ve got nothing against that specific shop, it’s just that you seem to be dropping a link to them in basically every single post you make.
Regarding those "ads" you're accusing me of—I don't work for Best Buy, so I'm obviously not out here shilling for them. If someone asks where to pick up a specific component, of course I'm going to provide a link to the store selling it; that isn't advertising, it's being helpful. And hey, if someone asks for a repair service, go ahead and post your own shop's link—nobody is stopping you from doing that.
As for batteries... honestly, I can't think of a single computer hardware retailer (and I mean a physical store, not some online-only shop) that doesn't carry them.
Honestly, you can find these at any local tech shop, a dedicated battery outlet, or even most jewelry stores—they usually carry them too. Just a bit of advice: bring the old battery with you to be safe.
So, you're having trouble getting this thing to boot—what you're describing sounds like the fans are spinning up just fine, but you aren't getting a POST. You’re stuck staring at that BIOS checksum error screen, unable to move past the initial startup, and the system clock keeps resetting itself in the BIOS... honestly, just try swapping out the CMOS battery first. It's a total long shot, but it's basically $3.25, and if that happens to be the culprit, it won't cost you anything to fix. Also, there's a chance your motherboard has an onboard speaker, which would explain where those beeps are coming from—if that's the case, it shouldn't matter whether you have a separate speaker plugged into that tiny header or not. Is the speaker connector actually attached to the case along with the rest of the front panel wires, or are you using one of those standalone little buzzers?
