I want to use my speaker's headphone jack instead of my computer's.

[Riley Lungmus]

I have an Altec Lansing desktop set of computer speakers, and would like to use the 3.5mm jack to hook my headphones to my computer so that the sound plays through the headphones instead of the speakers plugged in.

The front 3.5mm jack on my rig has been damaged and cannot be used, so I was hoping for some easily accessible alternative other than running the headphone cord into the back of the computer.

Thoughts?

Is that actually an output jack?

Am I really an idiot?

Thanks,

Riley Lungmus

 

[ssddx]

the 3.5mm jack typically found on the front of some pc speakers is typically meant for headphone use so should work as intended.

 

[Essdub8]

Probably best answered by plugging your headset in and checking to see if it works.

 

[ewok93]

Won't know until you try it, and it can't hurt. If it does hurt, something is way wrong.

 

[ADAMMOHD]

Make sure you plugged in correctly, speaker is green i think. And open your side panel and check if the HD audio connector from your case (the front panel is included from the casing tower) is connected correctly on your mobo. If black doesnt match the pins is okay because black wires do nothing and called ground wires.

You might aswell want to consider getting a usb soundcard

 

[ewok93]

Black is generally NEGATIVE, red is generally positive. Yellow is ground.

 

[ADAMMOHD]

Theres no such thing as negative charges, if you want to believe me or not its your choice. The black wire is called negative charge because all the extra volt that is supplied by red are going to flow through the black wire and gonna waste it and thats what ground wires do all the time. Note tht this is computer wiring not the wiring you do somewhere else.

 

[ewok93]

There are negative charges, but I was misinformed, the yellow is +12v, and the red is +5v, which is odd, considering it's normally red is positive, black is negative, and yellow is ground. Would make more sense if it were universal.

http/www.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-negative-charge.htm This explains negative charges pretty well.

 

[ADAMMOHD]

Yellow was never ground. And btw you just got misinformed again. In the case of computers, blacks are grounds.

http/www.answers.com/Q/Is_the_black_wire_in_a_computer_the_hot_wire

"Note tht this is computer wiring not the wiring you do somewhere else." I said before in last reply

 

[ewok93]

I was actually agreeing with you there, and saying that I was misinformed. I was talking about in non computer usage, where yellow IS usually ground.

 

[ADAMMOHD]

I was actually agreeing with you there, and saying that I was misinformed. I was talking about in non computer usage, where yellow IS usually ground.

xD I dint know that since Im only expert in computers

 

[ewok93]

Yeah, exactly, people who just know about computers could kill themselves by touching a black wire thinking it's a ground, non computer people could destroy electronics thinking yellow is just a ground.