| 2 DarthMalak, on Feb 2, 2009 4:01:51 am GMTI 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. | 3 Drea, on Feb 5, 2009 1:46:38 am GMTI 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. |
| 5 BJ, on Feb 14, 2009 3:19:33 am GMTHey man thanks alot that fixed the problem
it had been bugging me for ages so thanks again |
| 6 BJ, on Feb 14, 2009 3:19:33 am GMTHey man thanks alot that fixed the problem
it had been bugging me for ages so thanks again |
| 9 biraj, on Apr 4, 2009 8:46:54 am BSTThanks man that totally worked out like mazic.now i can hear mazic from the headphone. thanks again |
| 10 biraj, on Apr 4, 2009 8:50:40 am BSTThanks man that totally helped.i really appreciate that. |
| 11 notITsavvy, on Apr 8, 2009 7:01:30 am BSTHey,
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 |
| 12 Umzii, on Apr 27, 2009 8:19:09 am BSTThanks a looooooooooooooot mate !! that set to default thing worked !! my headfone works now...thatnksa million |
| 13 pp, on May 11, 2009 4:19:34 am BSTThank you. Problem fixed. |
| 17 Lisa, on Jun 6, 2009 12:43:54 am BSTThanks a bunch! My wonderful Toshiba headphone jack is back!!! Now I could listen to music in peace :-) |
| 25 Jen, on Jul 29, 2009 10:48:57 pm BSTThank you so much :D My headphones now work perfectly, yay :D |
| 37 samantha, on Nov 3, 2009 11:40:43 pm GMTOh 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!!! |
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