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Alert! front panel cable not detected error message Help Please!!!!!!!!!!!!

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by evonna_21

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When I turn on the Dell 4500 dimension P4. 256mb of Ram I recieve a beep and an error message "Alert front audio panel cable not detected" I retrieved this pc from a friend. After the error message the pc boots up fine but have no idea how to fix this. Has anyone seen this before?

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by thumbsup2

Yes, we've seen it before. It's common. The system thinks the speakers should be plugged into the front panel instead of the rear panel, but it does not detect them there.

If you have a little speaker in the system tray, right click it and choose audio properties. You should be able to get into the settings somewhere near the speakers so you can tell it they are plugged into the back panel and not the front panel.

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