Front Panel Audio...?

[<ABX]

I drag my machine around quite a bit... at home i have Logitech Z-640 (5.1) speakers and at work I often am stuck using headphones because I like my music a little too loud..

My problem is for some reason my motherboard only supports rear or front panel, I cant use both w/o changing jumpers.



I was wondering if i could make a little "adapter" out of a old jumper and use it safely?

[szlamany]

Are you suggesting a little dip-switch that toggles the jumper setting while the PC is up and running? Or simply doing that before power-up?

I've seen all kinds of cheesy little "speaker-like-headphone toys around" - surely you could mock up something from the back of the PC before you expost the motherboard to the outside world...

[<ABX]

I wanted to add a pin on top of the jumper so I could plug the front panel audio connector on to it and both would be functional at any time.

[szlamany]

I wanted to add a pin on top of the jumper so I could plug the front panel audio connector on to it and both would be functional at any time.

This is not my area of expertise, but I'm not so sure that the jumper block is anything more than a "switch" area for the board. Not necessarily an output port for your headphones. The +5VA pin kind of suggests to me it's just a switch block...