No sound from my laptop headphone jack [Solved]

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DarthMalak Feb 1, 2009 11:01PM

I had/have a similar problem. Go to the control panel, then to hardware and sound, then sound. You should see something called manage audio devices. Plug in your headphones and see if they show up.

If they don't, then either your divers(these things will tell your computer what kind of hardware it has and how to use it) are missing or the the headphone jack itself has failed. Lets say it is in fact your drivers that are missing, then all you need to do is either use windows update(it will detect many of your missing drivers) or go to the manufacturers website and look for them there(usually they will have a tab somewhere on the home page that will say something about support or downloads). And also try different headphones, those could have messed up as well.

Now lets say that you do see the headphones show up as an audio device. Then all you need to do is set them as the default and that should fix your problem. Though I will say that I currently have a problem with switching between the two. Once I start a program such as media player, it will stick with the current default audio device.

I hope that helps you.

Drea - Feb 4, 2009 08:46PM

I did what you told me and I try to play music from the jack and it still does not work. I set it as default and it does come up, however music or sound does not play from it.

BJ - Feb 13, 2009 10:19PM

Hey man thanks alot that fixed the problem
it had been bugging me for ages so thanks again

BJ - Feb 13, 2009 10:19PM

Hey man thanks alot that fixed the problem
it had been bugging me for ages so thanks again

andreaspan - Mar 22, 2009 12:54PM

thank you my friend ! you help meee!

biraj - Apr 4, 2009 03:46AM

thanks man that totally worked out like mazic.now i can hear mazic from the headphone. thanks again

biraj - Apr 4, 2009 03:50AM

thanks man that totally helped.i really appreciate that.

notITsavvy - Apr 8, 2009 02:01AM

Hey,

I tried all of those things that you suggested. I have a Toshiba laptop still on windows xp, the headphones and external speakers used to work plugged in, and now the laptop just continues to play through the laptop speakers. I dont know what has changed. Please help

Umzii - Apr 27, 2009 03:19AM

thanks a looooooooooooooot mate !! that set to default thing worked !! my headfone works now...thatnksa million

pp - May 10, 2009 11:19PM

Thank you. Problem fixed.

Lisa - Jun 5, 2009 07:43PM

Thanks a bunch! My wonderful Toshiba headphone jack is back!!! Now I could listen to music in peace :-)

ayodele_ng - Jul 10, 2009 12:33PM

Thanks it worked like magic!

Jen - Jul 29, 2009 05:48PM

Thank you so much :D My headphones now work perfectly, yay :D

Austin - Aug 31, 2009 08:05PM

It worked for me.
Many thanks

milan - Oct 23, 2009 02:04PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbOevvzq34U
Its perfect Solution
Thanks,
Milan(milanhelp.blogspot.com)

Mark - Jan 30, 2010 11:19PM

Thank you Milan. I don't know what you did in that video, but when I clicked on your link, my problem with my headphone jack was solved instantly. I was actually playing sound through my speakers on another open website (netflix), and when I opened your youtube page, the sound finally transferred through to my headphones which I was also wearing at the time. What is strange is that the sound continued playing through the speakers from netflix, while I was streaming sound from youtube through the headset. I closed out the netflix page and reopened it from the youtube page and all seems fine. Thanks!

samantha - Nov 3, 2009 06:40PM

oh my god. thank you so much. ive been having this issue for a year where i can hear through my speakers, though not through my headphones. i thought it was because i had a missing driver. who knew all i had to do was assign the headphones as the default?!?!?! thank you!!!

anonymous pseudonym - Dec 30, 2009 04:52AM

I don't HAVE hardware in my control panel.. I have Add Hardware but that's used for installing new hardware. I use a Windows Vista operating system and have an Acer laptop.. PLEASE HELP!!
(my problem, btw, is that my laptop plays sound fine but it's not coming through the headphone jack! It worked fine until today when I started it up and the headphones weren't working. If there's another slution to that, PLEASE TELL ME!)
thank you in advance (which means I KNOW you're going to help me :D),
anonymous pseudonym

sreedhar - Mar 15, 2010 07:08AM

there is no sound from my laptop... its working if i connect to any external speakers but the in built speakers are not working.. what is the solution for this?

sreedhar - Mar 21, 2010 05:44AM

no proper solution... don no what to do... no sound from my laptop..

Erika - Apr 16, 2010 04:36PM

Thank you so much! It worked! I had my computer in that state for months! Im a total dork when it comes to computers! Thank you once again, God bless.

Arwen - Apr 23, 2010 06:51PM

It works and they show up,and it will play anything that the computer makes ex: Default sounds, but it refuses to play it through them if i go on youtube, etc.

Alice - Apr 28, 2010 03:27PM

I tried everything you said and I went to the hp website to download a new driver but when i tried to download it it said that the hardware doesn't detected this product. Is there anything else I can do?

stylezzz - Apr 29, 2010 10:54PM

thanks:)

dave - May 2, 2010 06:12AM

did you manage to switch between the two? i seem to be having the same problem my earphones work now but i have to re-open apps when i plug in!! cheers for the help

dor - May 2, 2010 06:20PM

thanks a bunch !!!!

thatguy - May 6, 2010 10:53AM

worked perfectly

atif - May 10, 2010 03:04AM

out put sound jeck is not working in win vista TOSHIBA SATELLITE L355D-S7825 plz tel me

DJ oX - May 10, 2010 10:58AM

Yo man i put my headphones in pc and they showed up as a speakers and shows that they not pluged ing

KirraSky - May 15, 2010 07:21PM

um. can u tell me whats wrong with my headphone jack if the speakers make noise and the earphones make noice WITH the earphones plugged in? its so odd and im getting so mad with this. please email me at faceupwithdeath@gmail.com if u have my answer. thnxs ^^

sunshine - Jun 8, 2010 10:55PM

omg..thank u soo much..this totally help :)

Nick S - Jun 12, 2010 04:49PM

Dude I just had this problem and your advice worked like a charm! A++

Cupcake - Jun 13, 2010 12:39PM

Thx!!

julieann - Jun 13, 2010 05:00PM

omg! i disabled my defalt speakers and now they arent even in the screen to enable them again! and my head phones still arent working! help! please?

Lala - Jun 14, 2010 01:01AM

Julieann - Go to the control panel, then to hardware and sound, then sound. You should see something called manage audio devices. Click the playback tab, and right-click where your speakers used to be. Click "show disabled devices" in the menu that pops up. Your speakers will appear. Enable them.

Hope this helps (:

skimpy - Jun 16, 2010 10:06AM

thank you sooooo much, spent hours trying to figure it out...

nebolisa - Jun 22, 2010 09:48PM

thanks alot it works for me i have being trying this for a long time now

bobby - Jun 25, 2010 07:40PM

it works

josh cassidy - Jun 28, 2010 05:15PM

thanks

arup - Jul 2, 2010 01:03PM

thanks a lot ,it is really working..............

abrdn - Jul 2, 2010 05:52PM

tnx problems solved.

GS - Oct 7, 2012 11:53PM

thanks for that its working

jcvr - Oct 9, 2012 03:43PM

thanks!

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Clifton Nov 19, 2009 07:32PM

dude I know how to fix it I had this exact problem!!!
Go to Control Pannel
click on Hardware and Sound
click on Sound
then you devices should come up ; speakers, Digital Audio, and headphones
plug your headphones in
then select headphones
at the bottom it will say set as default
select that!!
then when you disconnect your headphones it automatically switches to the speakers and when you plug them back in it automatically will switch to headphones!!
boom!!!!
there ya go man!!!
it took me like 2 hours to figure that out lol.. hope i was helpful

kevb - Mar 19, 2010 07:36PM

doesnt work on my lap top. Toshiba Satellite. Can only choose speakers OR headphones by alternating default.
Any ideas?

john uk - Mar 20, 2010 12:13PM

thanks clifton iv had this drama for about a year now and you have just fixed it ! thank you very much .

ac - Mar 20, 2010 07:26PM

this works great thanks so much!! =)

ady shm - Apr 17, 2010 07:05PM

its works thanksss :)

kabir - Apr 27, 2010 03:14PM

wow thanks so much clifton that was so helpful thanks alot

kabir - Apr 27, 2010 03:14PM

thanksssssssssssssssssssss so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh clifton

balla - May 22, 2010 12:37PM

and what happens if there isnt the option of having the headphones?

Spaceexpress - Jun 5, 2010 02:51PM

Hi, Clifton, I dunno if you'll ever come back and read this thread. But I want to thank you. You solved my issue with my headphones. I did like you said, and after I tried shutting down my browser and starting it up again (I'd been listening to an online radio station and realised I needed to shut down my browser to see if your suggestion would work), it worked perfectly. I guess this is one of the good things about the Net - that people are willing to post on forums like this and help others out. Thanks to you and everybody who posted offering advice to the rest of us!

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Laura Dec 28, 2009 09:24AM

It won't let me click 'Set as default' :( Help please!

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TrueGrit May 1, 2010 01:50AM

RealTek HD Sound Problem
This works for my 7540 Acer laptop w/ built in Speakers and SoundCard

a) The Laptop has 3 Ports on the side- Pink,Green,Black
Pink Port is LineIn for an external device player jack
Green Port is LineIn for the Microphone jack
Black Port is LineOut for Headset or External Speakers jack
Plug the Green jack on Headphone - into the Black Port on the laptop.
b) Go to Control Panel and open - RealTek HD Audio manager
On the top of Page are 3 Icons -
One Icon is labelled Speakers One is for Digital optics, one is for Mic,
The Speakers Icon is misleading as it is also for Headphones (LineOut)
Select Speaker Icon and make it Default. Also tick Full Range - Front LR
Ignore the 4 vertical Analog Icons on the right side.
You should now have Headphone sound if your volume is not Muted.
Hope this works for Y'all.

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o mega Oct 27, 2009 02:55PM

I gotta HP and the front headphone jack works when i put in headphones. But it doesnt work when i try to connect it into a stereo system or in a home theater system ( IVE DONE IT BEFORE and it used to always work until today it just stopped) CAN some1 plz help

ikonane - May 4, 2010 06:29AM

I've got the same problem.

Help please

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Eric Feb 4, 2009 09:22PM

try right clicking the speaker icon and going to playback devices/ plug in headphones, write click the headphone icon go to test/ see if you here anything then set the headphones to default it worked for me.if that does not work try updating your audio driver/if that does not work try uninstalling your audio driver and installing a new one like realtec audio driver.

Newbie - May 23, 2009 02:53PM

I tried that, went to "playback devices" and then did a test to see if I can hear anything coming from the headphones. I did hear the sound, and set the headphones to "default" but that still didnt fix the problem. The sound still comes from my speakers and not headphones. BTW everything was working properly for me until my laptop crashed just recently and I had to take it in to Staples where they restored it.

mel - Jun 17, 2009 06:56PM

i tried the test thing and the test worked through the headphones but when i play anything eles it still only comes out the speakers

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mart657 Jan 20, 2010 10:53AM

How do you restart an app?

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sdsdsd Jul 14, 2009 05:47PM

The application will not recognise the different output device until you restart the app. The different audio output device needs to be set as default (in Control panel Sounds) and then you need to restart the app. It should then automatically use the new default device.
I was also hoping that someone had written a utility to force this change, but I suspect it's application dependent.

blahblahblah - Nov 11, 2009 07:31PM

Thankyou sooooooooooooooooo much. So simple!

i_me - Apr 27, 2010 09:36PM

whoever you are! thanks a lot.......
it was getting on my nerves , as there was no sound in headphone.....anyways thanks.

Computer_Nub39389 - May 4, 2010 12:08AM

U R GOD! thanks for the help.

jorrrrrrrrdyyy - Jun 26, 2010 02:18PM

smashing

tif - Jun 30, 2010 10:37PM

thank you iy acually worked wow!!!

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anon Jan 20, 2010 12:23AM

i have a sager np9280 with windows 7, and my earphones were working fine up until just a while ago, all of a sudden no sound will come from them. the speakers turn off as usual when i plug them in. i think it may be a hardware problem since i tried all that stuff.

keer - Jun 18, 2010 07:04AM

hi..in my hcl laptop..right audio output is not coming wnever i put my head phones..but both left and right chanels do work after removing the phone.pls cn u gv me a suggn??

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RK Mar 2, 2009 12:06PM

Faced with the same problem I found resetting the default output from the Control Panel did the trick.

davidliuzhou - May 26, 2009 10:36AM

I been following the threads, but I am using Vista, can't find the Manage audio devices under Hardware and Sound in Control Panel, and I am experience same problem as others, can't detect audio jack or external speakers, still in the process of figuring out whether that's a simple setting problem or hardware problem. I did try roll back to many different version of old drivers and latest drivers, didn't solve my problem.

kevb - Mar 19, 2010 08:45PM

old drivers can make it worse. I also haev same problem, and only way seems to be alternating setting headphones and speakers as eh default.
Control panel>sounds will bring up teh wondow in Vista.
Then get teh appllcation in post below for a quick change option rather than opening control panel all the time

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Leminimal 1Posts Friday September 11, 2009Registration date Sep 12, 2009 12:44AM

I had no sound on my headphones for a week or two.
Thank you so much. It worked out perfectly.

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c Dec 22, 2009 09:54PM

thank you! it had help me a great deal from spending money to get it repair

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Steve Jun 27, 2010 01:46PM

On my Acer Extensa 5220 I had the same problem. Running XP, download the driver "WDM_R249" from the Realtek site and install it. Solved the problem. I notice that I have had to do this a few times over the past 6 to 8 months. I agree with previous posts that the hardware is so unstable it needs constant software upgrades. I have no idea but this has worked for me

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davidliuzhou Jul 10, 2009 02:19PM

the new panel board did not solve the problem, still don't know what's wrong! tried updating the driver, tried replace hardware (pass through board with audio jacks), none of them worked, wondering if it's firmware like that jack sense sensor or something hidden that I can't fix.

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davidliuzhou May 28, 2009 01:16PM

ok, i did find that place where the little GUI LED senses the jack is plugged in or not, apparently my LED doesn't light up when I plug in the audio jack. I assume it's the hardware problem with that audio panel pass through board, updating drivers didn't seem to help, and opening the laptop up there was no loose connection anywhere, will find out when my new panel board arrives next week.

noura - Apr 14, 2010 06:18AM

hi Davidliuzhou, I think I have a similar problem... my pc have been opened up and since then I cant hear through my headphones unless i press them I bit down.... do you think it is loose connection or sth that has been cut up??

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Speederr Jan 6, 2010 05:49AM

hi.. i had the same problem whit my laptop when i installed win 7 - fujitsu siemens AMILO Xa 25288 - sound coming out from laptop speakers, but none from plugged in headphones or speakers...

i went to fujitsu support page and downloaded the sound driver for my laptop.... installed it and it works really good....(the driver was for vista not for win 7)

so try downloading your laptops driver...

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Happy Jan 12, 2010 08:50AM

Did what you said and solved the problem. Somehow the balance on the headphone jack had been moved all the way to the left channel. Fixed the problem in seconds, THANK YOU, saved me lots of messing around.

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pauk si Mar 20, 2010 11:31AM

how can i hear from my laptop computer

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Gucci May 10, 2010 04:18AM

My sound won't work how to get it to work.I have a touch screen above the keys....what to do

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