Sigmatel Audio - Will it work?

[Eric_C]

I am looking at the local stores and cannot find any of the Creative external sound cards available for purchase.

I was doing a search and saw someone else was using the built in Sigmatel sound card in their laptop. I have a Dell D620 with selectabe as Line In or Mic In.

Will this work for me or should I still hunt down an external unit?

[brucek]

If you have a Line-in and a line-out it should work. To check it, simply do a soundcard calibration with REW and see how it works...

brucek

[Sonnie]

I think this is the same thing I have in my laptop and it won't work. This is the standard sound card for laptops if I'm not mistaken. However, you could always try it. It may be different somehow.

[Eric_C]

I just got home from RS with the cables to test it out.

I would hope it works because the stores were a mad house. CompUSA does have one near me but no way I'm getting anywhere close to that place today

[Eric_C]

Worked perfect!

I plugged in the meter and it came up and asked me if I wanted to do Line In or Microphone.

Set it to line in and did the meter test no problem.

I just need to redo it now. Wife was baking and a bunch of other things going on, just confirmed it worked.

[blekenbleu]

Hmm, I should have got a D620;
Dell's D520 Sigmatel Audio driver also offers an option of Line In,
but physically has only Mic In with the same meter-pegging 3+V DC bias as others.
A loopback test from the headphone jack with REW shows good response to 20 Hz.