25 August 2006 08:00
tonyrogerson
A laugh at my expense on a Friday
I've spent this week building two new machines, a new server for me here at my office and also a Windows Media Centre machine that I can hook up to my Samsung plasma panel so my wife can check her emails and my 3 year son can start learning SQL.
I've had a problem that was driving me mad - I couldn't get the sound from the computer to play back through the TV, I tried everything - uninstalling / reinstalling the sound card drivers, hours of searching google etc... I even bought an adapter so the audio optic cable from the sound card could go into the back of the TV - I thought at the time it was an unusual connector.
Last night I realised what was wrong, the connector into the back of the TV wasn't optic afterall, it was a simple stereo phono socket - what a div! I'd been trying to put the optical cable into a analogue phono socket.
The machine and audio now work a treat; moral of the story - RTFM before you start!
Filed under: Chewing the fat