My sound card on my laptop is fried, so no sound. Its a Dell latitude with the sound card attached to the motherboard wich I am not going to replace. A friend mentioned about getting a USB sound card, attaching it to speakers, will this take care of my loss of sound?
It should do yes, there's nothing in common hardware-wise. As long as the USB ports still work fine, you'll be alright. However, onboard sound not working is usually the first sign of a motherboard chipset failure, in which case the USB ports, and finally the whole motherboard may soon follow. I use this sound card, and it's great. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102174&Tpk=sound+blaster+external Most of the reviews moan about it not having Optical support for 5.1 which it doesn't, but it's a reliable card with loads of features, and it'll be much better than your onboard sound. Just don't lose the CD, Creative don't post drivers on their website!
I was just looking for a cheap way to get some sound, I see they have some small almost like a thumb drive with speaker out and mic in for a couple of bucks http://cgi.ebay.com/Virtual-5-1-Cha...yZ74957QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem.
If all you want is some sound and you don't care about quality etc, then something like that would work fine, just obviously heed my caveat about the USB ports...
I know my USB port is working, just wanted to be able to hear some sounds off a few games, not worried about quality
