Blanking pins for sound card?

macfanuk · 6 Mar 2011 at 21:49

I am building a pc for someone and want to put a pci soundcard in and was wondering if there was any sort of blanking pins that I could put in the onboard 3.5mm jack sockets so the people using the computer know not to use them.

Cheers

macfanuk · 6 Mar 2011 at 21:58

kae2 said:
Match sticks?

Lol, I'd prefer not to

I remember having something some years ago that were just black pegs that were the same size as a 3.5mm jack plug. Can't find any now though.

macfanuk · 6 Mar 2011 at 22:04

nightmare99 said:
Yeah you can still get them, last time we need some we got them from a local motor factors & engineering supplies.

Any idea what the pegs are called?

macfanuk · 6 Mar 2011 at 22:17

Fernick said:
Don't install sound drivers for the onboard, disable any devices regarding it. I'm sure joe blogs will get the hint when no sound is coming out and there is the same interface just below him

Considering its for someone you know, just tell them to use the soundcard?

It's for a church and there'll be different people setting it up each week. Just trying to make things easier

macfanuk · 6 Mar 2011 at 22:44

kae2 said:
I'd take a hefty bet that within 2 weeks someone will have taken a screwdriver to the computer to try and remove them!

It's being padlocked....

macfanuk · 8 Mar 2011 at 09:55

dave-lew99 said:
By 'setting up' you imply that this computer will be brought out when needed then put away again?

If so, depending on how much time and effort you're willing to put in, i suggest mounting the computer into a rack/flight case/cabinet on wheels and building a simple connection panel with clear labels - video, sound, and so on.

Back in my radio days, we used to receive a pre-racked radio transmitter (hired) with a handful of cables coming out the back - apply power and audio and hey presto we had a full FM radio transmitter set up and running, it saved a lot of time.

Yeah, it will be brought out once a week for a service, then packed away again. A couple of issues with flight case, etc is it would have to be significantly bigger than the PC itself to allow for decent air circulation and the cost of such flight cases is quite high. I agree it needs to be protected in someway but I've not found a good, cost effective solution as yet.