HP dx2310 manual Solving Audio Problems

			Troubleshooting Without Diagnostics
Solving Audio Problems (Continued)
Problem	Cause	Solution
Noise or no sound comes		1.	If using digital speakers that
out of the speakers or			have a stereo jack and want the
headphones.			system to auto-switch to digital,
			use a stereo-to-mono adapter
			to properly engage the auto-
			sense feature or use the
			multimedia device properties
			to manually switch the audio
			signal from analog to digital.
		2.	If the headphones have a mono
			jack, use the multimedia device
			properties to switch the system
			to analog out.

✎If you set digital as the Output Mode, the internal speaker and external analog speakers will no longer output audio until you switch back to an auto-sense or analog mode.

If you set analog as the Output Mode, external digital speakers will not function until you change the output mode back to an auto-sense or digital mode.

Sound cuts in and out.	Processor resources are	Shut down all open processor-
	being used by other	intensive applications.
	open applications.
Computer appears to be	The hard disk may be	1.	Before recording, make sure
locked up while recording	full.		there is enough free space on
audio.			the hard disk.
		2.	Try recording the audio file in a
			compressed format.

Service Reference Guide 490778-001 D–11