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#1 2017-10-05 02:57:32
- aarch
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Possible to damage hardware with incorrect hdajackretasker settings?
Kind of a follow on to an earlier subject I'd posted here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=229296
I'd been messing with hdajackretasker and hda-analyzer tool to try and get a heaphone port working and now the internal speakers on my laptop no longer work. I mean *at all* even if I boot into windows. Headphone socket/line out still work fine but the internal speakers are dead. Could it have been as a result of config changes?
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#2 2017-10-05 03:02:37
- ewaller
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Re: Possible to damage hardware with incorrect hdajackretasker settings?
Unlikely.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature -- Michael Faraday
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#3 2017-10-05 03:42:42
- aarch
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Re: Possible to damage hardware with incorrect hdajackretasker settings?
That's what I would have thought too but this was a brand new laptop, only 4 weeks old and the speakers died within days of me having messed around with the settings. I know the specific sound hardware has a DAC/Amp which wasn't properly being engaged by the driver so it doesn't seem 'impossible' I guess the only way to know would be to get the speakers replaced then try it again and see if it blows them again O.o
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#4 2017-10-05 14:42:40
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Re: Possible to damage hardware with incorrect hdajackretasker settings?
Does your hardware setup menu (often [wrongly] called your BIOS set up menu) have the option to return to factory defaults? If so, give that a try. Or if you system has a battery for a CMOS memory, try removing that (most modern systems use EEROM, so a battery may not exist)
Remove your battery and AC power sources for a couple minutes so that the machine has no power source. Then reconnect them, boot, and see what happens.
Pull up a tool such as alsamixer and ensure everything is un-muted and that the volumes are up. Check all sound cards; you likely have pulseaudio, an analog one, and you may have an HDMI one. Make sure the system is not trying to use HDMI instead of the internal speakers.
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