Can i connect my acer 2483WXMi laptop to a stereo and if so how do i do it and what cables do i need

The red and white connectors are dual mono audio cables. what you need is a converter to a 3.5 stereo audio cable. attached is a link to a cheap one. Hosa YMM 261 Stereo Breakout Cable 3 5 mm TRS to Dual 3 5 mm TSF

Your Acer laptop has a 15-pin VGA port on the rear. It may also have a S-Video and/or a DVI-D port. Any of these can be used to connect to a television monitor. None of these connections, however, supports the sound portion of the signal. You will therefore require two cables, one for the video, and one for the sound. The sound will be a regular 1/8" stereo jack on the PC side. You will need to look at the TV to see what types of connections it accepts. There may be HDMI, DVI-D, S-Video, or RCA connections. Select a cable which matches the connections for each end for both the audio and video.

LOL, nope, that's the way it works. The sound will come from the netbook. If you want the sound to come from the TV you will need to run a audio cable out of the Netbook's Headphone Jack to the RCA input Jacks on the TV.

Bascially you will need a cable with a 3.5mm Stereo Male end for the Netbook headphone Jack and the other end will have 2 RCA Male for the TV's Audio Jack.

You can buy them at:
http://www.cablewholesale.com

just look for audio cables
3.5mm Stereo Male to 2 RCA Male

They are real cheap 6 ft. less than $2.00, 12 ft. less than $3.50
You can get 25ft or 50ft also

Your laptop does not have a HDMI port. You only have VGA, you have to purchase a VGA to VGA cable VGA is video only interface. So you will need it along with the stereo audio cable
http://pctvcables.com/vga-with-audio-pc-to-tv-cables.html
Note that the stereo audio cable shoulb be connected from the headphones jack on your laptop to the headphones jack on you home theater system if you have one or buy this adapter plug the stereo audio cable coming from the laptop into it and connect it to the stereo audio in (red and white audio)of your tv
http://www.amazon.com/Male-3-5mm-Stereo-Female-Y-Cable/dp/B000I23TTE

make sure your TV is on the right channel. it will not connect automatically.
connecting a vga cable will only provide picture but no audio. you may need a male to male stereo cable and connect it to the laptop and the tv's stereo jack.

You'll need a VGA to Composite or Component Cable. Asuming you have RCA Composite/Component Connections on your TV.

I'll Look something like this:
VGA to Composite
or

VGA to Component
Make sure you TV has @least one of these 3 colored group inputs in front or in back of it. 1. Composite (Mono): Yellow, White or Red
2. Composite (Stereo): Yellow, White, Red 3. Component: Red, Green, Blue
If you don't have any of those then you'll need This Along with a Splitter.
Hope this helps, if it does then please remember to leave Feedback/Testimonial.

sure can, any standard sound amplifier can take a signal from the stereo earphone jack and amplify with fantastic results.

Just need to go to Radio Shack or Walmart, or another department store to get the right adapter (stereo to stereo, or stereo to mono) and cord.

Note the number of contacts on the earphone plug that plugs into the earphone jack. If it has three different connections on the plug, it's stereo. If it has only 2 then it is mono.

Most computers I know of have the stereo plug which works with stereo inputs of an amplifier.

So, the answer is a resounding yes.

Buy an audio cable: stereo jack male at one side and RCA Audio on the other end. Connect the male jack to the laptop's headphones and the RCA channels to the audio inputs at the back (you will see the two channels - white and red colored ones).

Hi there.
The audio out or headphone jack is located at the front of the laptop and is coloured green.
Get a male to male mini stereo jack ( about 3 meters ) and you will be in business!!

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I believe Acer is Alt + F10

Also if you have a recovery CD try booting with that.