On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 02:24:37 GMT, Teear <BigFat.RemoveThis@Frelling.Chan.ce> wrote:
>John Laird <nospam.RemoveThis@laird-towers.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>Well, I have just been down the same road as many others and discovered that
>>not only does the SN41G2 lack a line input, the mic input is mono (although
>>appearing to be a stereo jack, it is actually carrying voltage out on the
>>ring/middle connector, so plugging in any stereo line out lead is not
>>recommended). The SPDIF connector is no good to me, so my only options left
>>in order to get stereo in are to buy a cheap PCI sound card or to explore
>>the option to use the rear speaker output in its claimed "other" mode.
>>Which means I may well have to flash the BIOS, and sacrifice a goat or two,
>>if Google'd posts are anything to go by.
>>
>http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvswap_1.0.html
Interesting link
I may have a go with this later...
>You could also try using the internal Audio CD_IN Connector, CN6 as a
>line in and run a connector to the outside of the box if you don't
>have to use CN6 for your CD Audio. Most more recent drives don't need
>it.
What I have succeeded in doing is using the line-in pins on J6 by rewiring
the leads, so that the microphone socket is now acting as line-in. At the
J6 end, I moved a red wire from 1 to 7, and a yellow wire from 3 to 4. This
has now given me a line-level stereo input, but obviously I have lost the
ability to have mic-in. If NVSWAP will successfully let me swap the
functions of line-in and rear-out, say, I will wire the front connector back
the way it was and use the rear speaker connector instead.
[While pondering all this, I have been sitting at my "office" PC not
noticing the fact it does possess a line input, and a 100Mb link to my
Shuttle box, and is nearer my hi-fi...]
>>I have two dim-bulb questions at this point:
>>
>>a) Erm, how does one determine the current BIOS version ? The splash
>>screens go by so quickly, and the actual BIOS menus do not seem to reveal
>>anything. Is it the bottom line of the main starting screen (EPA logo,
>>memory test, ide detects, etc) - I reckon with about 5 or 6 reboots I may
>>just about be able to write down the whole string...
>>
>The "Pause" key will stop the boot process and allow you to see what
>version the BIOS is. "Enter" will resume the boot.
So they do !
>The BIOS Flashed
>version is at the beginning the 4th line of text in parens
>1 Phoenix...
>2 Copyright...
>3
>4 (FN41S021) nVidia...
I have S013 apparently, as supplied.
>>b) I only have one ancient floppy drive which may or may not work (previous
>>attempts to hook it up with the case apart have failed, but that may have
>>been me failing to try all 2^^n ways of connecting the lead). How difficult
>>is it to burn a bootable CD with DOS on it, and boot from that ? Pointers
>>to step-by-step instructions particularly welcome. My kids will not thank
>>me if I smoke their homework PC !
>>
>>TIA.
>I use WinISO to make my bootable CD's
>http://www.winiso.com/
Another useful link, thanks. Thanks to the others who replied, too. It is
all a bit moot currently as I discovered my (ahem) copy of Audio Cleaning
Lab was not copied well enough to avoid copy protection problems, so I am
awaiting an Ebay purchase of a more up-to-date version arriving in the post.
Many thanks again.
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