How to connect built-in speakers from dual monitors via DVI and VGA?

[freshmango90]

I have two monitors (Acer GF276 Abmipx) that has built-in speakers.

The back of the monitors have:
- 3.5mm jack for line-in
- 3.5mm jack for headphones

I have an audio splitter.

How to I make this work? I tried:
- connect aux cords from headphone jack on monitors to splitter
- connect splitter to headphones jack on computer

Before you ask me to use HDMI - I don't have HDMI port on my computer.

 

[canadianvice]

Make sure you've selected the right audio output, but what you should have set up is:
3.5mm HEADPHONE OUT on the back of your computer, in to the splitter
3.5mm AUXILIARY M<->M Cable x2; One going from the splitter into the AUDIO IN on a monitor, and then the other for the same.

DVI, VGA, etc. shouldn't have much to do with it. Is your software side audio configured properly?

 

[canadianvice]

Make sure you've selected the right audio output, but what you should have set up is:
3.5mm HEADPHONE OUT on the back of your computer, in to the splitter
3.5mm AUXILIARY M<->M Cable x2; One going from the splitter into the AUDIO IN on a monitor, and then the other for the same.

DVI, VGA, etc. shouldn't have much to do with it. Is your software side audio configured properly?

 

[freshmango90]

Make sure you've selected the right audio output, but what you should have set up is:
3.5mm HEADPHONE OUT on the back of your computer, in to the splitter
3.5mm AUXILIARY M<->M Cable x2; One going from the splitter into the AUDIO IN on a monitor, and then the other for the same.

DVI, VGA, etc. shouldn't have much to do with it. Is your software side audio configured properly?

Thank you for your response. This works for one monitor. I just realized something else. The other monitor is connected to DVI using HDMI/DVI adapter, as the monitor does not accept DVI. So does this mean that the audio is being outputted via HDMI, thus ignoring the "AUDIO IN"?

I checked the settings on the monitor. It says source is HDMI, and the only settings on audio is volume, can't choose where the sounds coming from...

 

[canadianvice]

Make sure you've selected the right audio output, but what you should have set up is:
3.5mm HEADPHONE OUT on the back of your computer, in to the splitter
3.5mm AUXILIARY M<->M Cable x2; One going from the splitter into the AUDIO IN on a monitor, and then the other for the same.

DVI, VGA, etc. shouldn't have much to do with it. Is your software side audio configured properly?

Thank you for your response. This works for one monitor. I just realized something else. The other monitor is connected to DVI using HDMI/DVI adapter, as the monitor does not accept DVI. So does this mean that the audio is being outputted via HDMI, thus ignoring the "AUDIO IN"?

I checked the settings on the monitor. It says source is HDMI, and the only settings on audio is volume, can't choose where the sounds coming from...

I sadly don't have a capacity to check with my own setup, but this would sound logical to me. I've always just pumped it through one monitor, myself.

 

[freshmango90]

Make sure you've selected the right audio output, but what you should have set up is:
3.5mm HEADPHONE OUT on the back of your computer, in to the splitter
3.5mm AUXILIARY M<->M Cable x2; One going from the splitter into the AUDIO IN on a monitor, and then the other for the same.

DVI, VGA, etc. shouldn't have much to do with it. Is your software side audio configured properly?

Thank you for your response. This works for one monitor. I just realized something else. The other monitor is connected to DVI using HDMI/DVI adapter, as the monitor does not accept DVI. So does this mean that the audio is being outputted via HDMI, thus ignoring the "AUDIO IN"?

I checked the settings on the monitor. It says source is HDMI, and the only settings on audio is volume, can't choose where the sounds coming from...

I sadly don't have a capacity to check with my own setup, but this would sound logical to me. I've always just pumped it through one monitor, myself.

I'm going to mark your first reply as an answer, and open a new thread about using the 3.5mm audio in jack instead of using HDMI on the monitor.