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I have a set of stereo speakers (Creative Inspire T7900) that I would like to use with my laptop. I've connected all the smaller speakers to the main speaker (excuse my lack of speaker terminology) but now I can't connect the main one to my laptop. It has a 4 audio jacks! (Each jack is for a different set of speakers – front, rear, side, and center subwoofer.) How do I connect that with my laptop's 1 audio jack? Do I need an external sound card? Or will a splitter do?
Also, I've tried connecting just one of the jacks to my laptop, but the sound won't work. When I plug it in, any sound that was playing from my laptop speakers is muted, but I can't hear anything from the connected speakers.
Connecting just the green cable makes no sound at all – Rolodophone – 2018-12-28T15:20:49.923
It should. Can you plug in headphones into that same plug and verify that you have sound on the headphones? – LPChip – 2018-12-28T15:30:44.907
Yep, the headphones worked fine, but connecting any of the speaker cables made no sound at all. However, the laptop did mute the inbuilt speakers so it must think something is connected. – Rolodophone – 2018-12-28T15:36:57.190
Yes, but it does that only due to a cable being plugged in. It has a sensor that knows a cable is being present regardless of whether it works or not. – LPChip – 2018-12-28T15:39:57.287
See my edit though, you should be able to use the line-in too. – LPChip – 2018-12-28T15:40:33.780
Do you mean the "auxillary line in" on the volume control unit? – Rolodophone – 2018-12-28T15:55:34.233
Yes, that one. :) – LPChip – 2018-12-28T16:00:33.163
What input selector? I can't find any. – Rolodophone – 2018-12-28T17:02:13.487
On another note, I've found out that the speaker cables are TRS connectors, whereas my headphones' connector is TRRS. Could that be the difference that makes the headphones work but the speakerset not work? – Rolodophone – 2018-12-28T17:17:07.163
Not unless the plug does not go in far enough. Normally TRS is what you need. And for input selector, not all speakers have them, but some do. If yours doesn't then you don't need to switch to set it for aux input. – LPChip – 2018-12-28T18:42:56.947
Should it work with the coloured speakercables? Because after connecting my laptop to the line-in using them, the sound still didn't work. – Rolodophone – 2018-12-28T20:31:29.183
Nevermind, the vol control cable wasn't in far enough :). It works! Many thanks – Rolodophone – 2018-12-29T12:52:22.983