Re: Help! Rom3 goes silent.

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5d1bpf$hjk@gandalf.Advent.COM>,
Stephen McGrogan <smcgroga@gandalf.Advent.COM> wrote:
>While inserting a mono remote speaker plug into my son's new
>(to us) IIgs Rom3, the sound was permanently reduced in volume.
>I suspect that the mono plug shorted out one of the two stereo
>rings in the jack, which must have caused some damage in the
>audio driver circuitry.

   One TV I was using seemed to have the same problem-- after plugging
in a set of headphones and removing them, the TV's speakers seem to
have cut out permanently. This was because the headphone jack has a
small physical cutoff switch that got stuck in the 'kill internal
speaker' setting. A little poking around with a paperclip fixed that.
Alternatively, inserting and removing a headphones jack a few times
may loosen the switch to the point where it works again.

   You may want to try an little experimentation with that jack
before hitting the motherboard a few times.

Nathan Mates


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