- Oct 18, 2004
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Here is my whole situation.
I HAD a dell insprion 9300 with no sound. I bought it a 1.3 years ago and so i'm out of warranty. Its not a software issue at all. I know for a FACT that it is hardware related. My audio port solder points became loose and was wiggleing around. I took the laptop apart and attempted to resolder. Now i have aleast some sound if i have headphones connected to it. its either mono or just right side. At this point i figured i was on the right track. I did about 2 more trial and error attempts to resolder and same results. Well its better then nothing. But now i want sound!! I called up dell and asked if they sold the port seperate and attempted to solder it on. The answer is no, only the motherboard is aviable for $299. Ebay prices are $299 as well.
Here are my thoughts now. I could pick up one of these PCMCIA cards and get a cheap 2.1 speaker combo.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...844957?ie=UTF8
i can get one for roughly $50 and i assume a decent creative/logitech 2.1 is $50. --- so for a total of 100$ i have audio back. Possibly a lot better then what i had before, just lost of portablilty but i don't mind.
Now my questions would this be the MOST reasonable solution for this? I normally overlook the simple other solutions here and there, this is mainly why i'm asking you guys.
edit/// oh yea if this is the reasonable solution can someone find me some fairly decent $50 speakers? I bought a 2.1 creative speakers, More of a budget setup for $43 and they rather stink. I'm not a big audio buff person but those really stink.