Installing Frontal Audio Plugs

[Gabriel Torres]

There has been a new article posted.

Title: Installing Frontal Audio Plugs
URL: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/artic...at=audio&id=93

Here's a snippet:
The most sophisticated cases, besides having frontal USB ports as we saw last week, also have plugs for microphone (mic in) and loudspeakers (or ear phones), a feature makes installing a microphone or...

Comments on this article are welcome.

[Grantly]

Liked the article, thought you may be able to help with my question above...

I just upgraded my pc and one thing I didn't ask for and thus overlooked wsa front audio plug. Thus I was hoping to mod my box slightly with some plugs that I bought if that is possible.

Thanks for any help...

[Gabriel Torres]

Hi there,

Yes, this can be done if you master a soldering iron. You will need to buy:

- one 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack for headphones

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/sto...oductId=297035

- one 3.5 mm mono mini-jack for mic in

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/sto...oductId=281834

- Wires. For better audio quality I suggest you to use coaxial cables. If you go for coax, you will need 2 feet of stereo and 2 feet of mono. If you go for regular wires, you will need 4 feet of black wire (for ground), 2 feet of pink wire (for mic), 2 feet of yellow wire (headphone right channel) and 2 feet of green wire (headphone left channel).

- Pins:

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/sto...oductId=100765

Then just follow the tutorial to connect them on the motherboard.

Good luck!

PS: Actually you gave us a great idea for a how-to tutorial.

Cheers,
Gabriel.

[Grantly]

Whoa... we are getting serious... actually building it from scratch... I will use this as a last option, prefer to just buy pre-made ones if they can be purchased and then install... I will keep an eye on your site for the tutorial and thaks for the swift reply.

Regards Grantly