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First post, by tomexplodes

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Well, one main issue anyway. The speaker out jack is getting very loose, and to get sound to work I have to move my speaker wire around and then wrap it on something. So, my question is basically, can I somehow use the mic or line in jacks in place of the speaker out? I know this is probably stupid, I'm just hoping there's a jumper setting or something I'm not aware of.
Alternatively, I have a Vibra 16 CT2260, I'm just not sure how much I'll love the sound in comparison. I also have an Opti card of some kind which I believe is also a 16 clone. Chip says "Opti 82C931 119703 11CW", on the board itself there's a random "2097" and there's "1547000020 REV:B" and an FCC ID: E5X1817. I haven't looked up the opti card yet as I'm unsure it's worth a darn.

At any rate. Short of replacing the SBPro entirely or resoldering the speaker output (I'm not even thinking the solder is a problem, might be the pins themselves) and also considering the age of the card and that it hasn't been used in god knows how many years until very recently, it's dirty and I'm sure the jacks are dirty internally, enormous run on sentence, is either of those cards a decent substitute?

Whew. Okay. Thank you for your time.

1.) MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium-S 90mhz, 32mb RAM, S3 Trio64, Vibra 16
2.) Windows 98 SE, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1ghz, 512mb RAM, Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb, Sound Blaster Live! Value

Reply 1 of 3, by tomexplodes

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I've opted for the Vibra 16 for now, even though I don't think? it suits my ears as well as the SBPro 2.0? Could be my imagination, my mind isn't what it used to be.

1.) MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium-S 90mhz, 32mb RAM, S3 Trio64, Vibra 16
2.) Windows 98 SE, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1ghz, 512mb RAM, Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb, Sound Blaster Live! Value

Reply 2 of 3, by Thermalwrong

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One of my soundblaster 16 cards is exactly the same, have to wiggle it around to get audio from both speakers. These old cards have no way to route audio through the Mic port, that's probably not a good idea electrically. You can buy modern replacements though, they're easy enough to desolder and put a fresh one on.

Reply 3 of 3, by tomexplodes

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Unfortunately, soldering is not an option for me, but thank you!

1.) MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium-S 90mhz, 32mb RAM, S3 Trio64, Vibra 16
2.) Windows 98 SE, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1ghz, 512mb RAM, Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb, Sound Blaster Live! Value