Headphone jack?

[Kees]

Quick question: My mother wants to use a headset for Skype on her
computer, which has a C-Media AC97 "sound device", which I assume is
the sound card; other than the mic jack it has two other jacks, one of
which works, and the other which does not, regardless of whether
speakers or headphones are plugged into it. I'm wondering if this jack
(the middle one) is damaged. Can anybody in this group confirm this?
Headphones do work in the upper jack, but I'm assuming that it doesn't
have an amplifier, as the volume is very very low. I'm not exactly a
neophyte to computers, but don't know what else to think if there
appears to be no signal from the mysterious middle jack. Thanks in
advance for your reply.

 

[Pennywise]

Quick question: My mother wants to use a headset for Skype on her
computer, which has a C-Media AC97 "sound device", which I assume is
the sound card; other than the mic jack it has two other jacks, one of
which works, and the other which does not, regardless of whether
speakers or headphones are plugged into it. I'm wondering if this jack
(the middle one) is damaged. Can anybody in this group confirm this?
Headphones do work in the upper jack, but I'm assuming that it doesn't
have an amplifier, as the volume is very very low. I'm not exactly a
neophyte to computers, but don't know what else to think if there
appears to be no signal from the mysterious middle jack. Thanks in
advance for your reply.

Most likely an input jack, microphone, audio input, whatever.

Look real close to the ports usually they have small icons above as to
their purpose.

 

[smlunatick]

These "on-board" sound card have three jacks. They are used as:

Mic.
Audio out (Speakers)
Line-In

You need to connect a standard headset to Audio Out and Mic jacks. If
you want to keep the speaker connected, you can locate a audio out
switch, which would allow you to switch between speaker or headset.

 

[Poprivet]

And of course, those jacks have to be enabled in the Play/record controls.
Often input jacks are OFF in order to minimize noise in playbacks if nothing
is connected to them.

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