Acer8I945AE. What's the loose Mike/Aux jacks on front panel for?

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abrogard

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I have this acer8I945AE board and at the bottom of the front panel there's a little circuit board with many leads coming away from it.

those wires plug into such as HDD light and two USB ports, reset switch, stuff like that.

The front of that little circuit board has two USB ports and a 'headphone' marked socket at one side and a 'mic' marked socket at the other.

Neither of which appear to work.

Now the things is that amongst the wires that come off this board there's two that end in like 3mm stereo jacks. Not sockets. Jacks. Male endings.

And they are marked 'AUX' and 'MIC'.

I can't make much sense of that.

Can anyone?
 
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They plug into the motherboard's onboard connections for the sound on the back. "MIC" plugging into the microphone port, and "AUX" plugging into the speaker output.

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There's nowhere on the board for that to happen.
Do you mean the cable is to be taken outside the computer case and then turn back and plug into the external ports at the back? Surely not?

 
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Yep, you're right. Haven't checked out a mic yet but the headphone thing works. I said it says 'AUX' on there and it does, but plugging it into a speaker port at the back enables the front socket to function as a headphone socket - which is what it is imprinted as.
I guess the mic is going to work just as well.
What a strange carry on. Last minute fix to a design blunder I'd say...
I'll click your post as the 'solution'.
And thanks for that.
:)
 
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