Audio Out Prob

When I plug my speakers/headphones into my audio out for some bizzare reason, my z70v's speakers stay on! Does anyone have ANY idea why this may be happening? Do ppl feel this is hardware / software? Any help would be great!

Cheers!

 

Thats not right.

I think it may be a driver problem most likely

 

That's a first for me....... it's got to be a software thing, because there's not like a hardware switch that turns them off... so a driver it must be.

 

It's definitely a driver problem. I had the issue on my old HP when I forgot to install the audio drivers after I reformatted. Audio came out of both before I installed the drivers, then the problem was solved!

 

First for me too. Its disabled in the software once the jack sensor finds a jack. Trying different headphones would be my first attempt at a resolution. Drivers ofcourse need to be installed. make sure you install from cd not from control panel by the way.

 

actually most jacks do have a little metal piece that when a headphone plugs in, it disconnects the speakers (acts like a switch). But usullly when something goes wrong with the jack, there is either no sound, or only sound with headphones, not both. So this may be a more sophisticated set up, but i don't see why drivers would control it since the headphone function should work when you first start up the computer (before any drivers are loaded) -- i know my z71v is like that. Maybe something to try...

 

Ok - down on the motherboard level I've never seen this, but remember this is all digital and these are S/PDIF jack... basically digital miniRCA...... I haven't been in touch with the analog stuff in a long time... so I don't know if I'm missing something or like you said, if this is just how it is on the digital stuff... and your unit uses the same jacks....

Generic drivers built into the OS are used for those jacks..... but they are drivers nonetheless.

 

wooohooo ppl replied this time! anyway i tried reinstalling the drivers. still nothing... ARG maybe its not driver related... is there some setting in windows that i could have inadvertantly turned on that would cause this to happen? I could just re-install windows... but im in the middle of a lot of work (school....) so its not the best of times... its odd though this is definately a recent thing... i am 100% sure that it was working before... Thanks 4 all the responses! Cheers all!

 

It does that on my W2V as well if I put my headphones on the front audio jack (shared as S/PDIF) and put the laptop on 4 channel output. I get two channels from my headphones and two channels from the laptop speakers. If you set it on 2 channel output there's no problem. Maybe you can try that and see if it works.

 

Yeah, i would try another headphone just in case, unless you already did. Reinstalling the drivers would be a good idea also, but I think it may be hardware and not software. But hey, I'm not an expert.

 

i have tried headphones and speakers... i checked to see if it was 4 channel... it wasnt... ARG... is there any windows settings that would effect this??? arg... wtf this is really wierd...

 

I had the same problem on my w5a after the reassymbly. During the dismantle I disconnected a flex cable under the keyboard. That flex cable connects to the two jacks and my volume wheel....after putting everything back I notice the same issue similar to you...so I took the keyboard out and push the cable in the connecter (it wasn't push inwards engouh) ....If you look at it there is a blue marking on it to make sure that you completely push the cable in the receptor....so it might be a fault during assymbly...given that you haven't touch anything...

 

maybe, though it just recently occured so it wasnt probably a assembly prob... wierd though... ill have to format it when i get time... lost of work from uni... arg

 

if you're able to pry out the keyboard...it's worth to have a look under it...to see if the flex cable is well anchored in