Lime green jack on the back of my monitor?

[cyberman1]

I have 3 ports on my monitor; VGA, DVI, and then this other lime green one that looks like a headphone jack. What is it?

 

[Mousemonkey]

Audio line in probably, does your monitor have built in speakers?

 

[jasont78]

audio out from hdmi input?

 

[Mousemonkey]

audio out from hdmi input?

And which one of the three ports mentioned would that one be?

 

[cyberman1]

don't think the monitor has built in speakers, sorry im a noob at this, what does audio line in do?

 

[Mousemonkey]

It sends the audio from your PC to the monitor.

 

[cyberman1]

So what cable would I need and would I be able to put my headphones in them. Sorry for my probably stupid questions

 

[Mousemonkey]

Have you at any point tried reading the manual for your monitor?

 

[cyberman1]

I got it second hand so it only came with the power cable.

 

[Mousemonkey]

So there is no manufactures name or model number on it that you could type into google?

 

[cyberman1]

it gets detected as the X19W which I guess is the Advent X19W, I cannot find anything about it on google

 

[Mousemonkey]

When I google it I get info about built in speakers so you couldn't have looked very hard but that is what the green jack is for, audio input.

 

[cyberman1]

May I ask where you got that information from?

 

[Mousemonkey]

From the first page of results from google.

 

[cyberman1]

when i plug my headphones in the moniter i cannot hear sound, am i missing something

 

[sam_p_lay]

It sends the audio from your PC to the monitor.

Yes you are. You're not paying attention. This ^ is what the line-in does. Audio IN to monitor, not OUT to your headphones.

 

[cyberman1]

ahhh, so if I get a cable i could wire it up to the pc and the sound would come out of the monitor so I would not need external speakers?

 

[sam_p_lay]

ahhh, so if I get a cable i could wire it up to the pc and the sound would come out of the monitor so I would not need external speakers?

Exactly. Just a basic jack-to-jack lead is all you need.

 

[cyberman1]

is there a cable that links the two but also has a line out jack to plug my headphones into?

 

[cyberman1]

or i could get a splitter and get 1 jack to jack lead to plug into the monitor and then plug my headphones into the other hole in the splitter, would that work?

 

[sam_p_lay]

You could get a headphone splitter cable. Probably not the best solution for getting decent audio through both, though if you're using built-in monitor speakers then you're probably not too bothered about that 🙂 Headphone splitters are dead cheap - take a look on Amazon.

 

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