Toshiba Satellite A500/ Satellite Pro A500/ Satellite A500D/ Satellite Pro A500D series User Manual

User’s Manual

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Operating Basics

11. Magnetic energy can destroy the data on your floppy diskettes. In view 

of this you should keep your floppy diskettes away from speakers, 

radios, televisions and other sources of magnetic fields.

This section describes some of the audio control functions. 

You can control the overall level of sound using Windows Volume Mixer.
To launch Volume Mixer, follow the steps below.
1. Locate the Speaker icon on the task tray.
2. Right-click the Speaker icon on the task tray.
3. Select Open Volume Mixer from the menu.
Click the Device button to display available playback devices. Select 

Speakers to use the internal speakers for listening. Adjust speaker volume 

by moving the slider up or down to raise or lower the volume. Click the 
Mute button 

 to mute the sound.

You may see another control under Applications in Volume Mixer. It is the 

control for an application which is currently running. The Windows Sounds 

is always displayed since it controls the system sounds’ volume.

System sounds are assigned to inform you when certain events happen. 

This section explains how select an existing scheme or save one you have 

modified.
To launch the configuration dialog window for system sounds, follow the 

steps below.
1. Right-click the Speaker icon on the task tray.
2. Select Sounds from the menu.

You can confirm and change the audio configuration using the Realtek 

Audio Manager. To launch the Realtek Audio Manager, click Start 

→ 

Control Panel 

→ Hardware and Sound → Realtek HD Audio Manager.

When you first launch the Realtek Audio Manager, you will see following 

device tabs. Speakers is the default output device. Microphone is the 

default input device. To change the default device, click the Set Default 

Device button under the chosen device tab.

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Speakers is the default output device. Select it when using the internal 

speakers or headphones.

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Digital Output should be selected when connecting the optical cable to 

the Headphone (S/PDIF) jack for playing digital sound on digital audio 

equipment. Digital Output can only be used by connecting an optical 

audio cable.