Does this run off a USB 2.0 connection or does it have left and right (white and red) composite RCA jacks ??? If it has the jacks, nearly any notebook will run external speakers by getting a headphone jack 2.5mm (male) to RCA audio jacks (2 female -- white and red) adaptor at Radio Shack for under $5.
If these speakers are suppposed to run through the USB 2.0 connection and you are not getting audio that is a different issue .......
I cannot get my Bose Companion 2 Multimedia Speaker System to work with my Toshiba Qosmio G-15-AV501 laptop. The instructions that came with the speakers seem very straightforward, but I have been unsucessful in numerous attemps to run sound to the speakers. Any suggestions?

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