[solved] Headphones not working with Windows Solved/Closed

Question

Hello, 


This post is for people who are having a very specific issue.  

Please see this before you try this fix. The issue this fix addresses was on an HP Compaq 515 running on Windows 7 Home Premium.

I have laptop with working speakers. When headphones are plugged in, they are detected but do not play music. You cannot set the headphones as the default playback device even if you disable the speakers. Reinstalling the audio drivers does not work

Solution:

-Open "Add or Remove Programs"
-Uninstall IDT Audio
-Restart computer

If this solution doesn't work for you and you would like to undo it, please use System Restore

Hope this helps someone!

harry · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Try this out:

 Speaker or headphone can be set as default. [I'm not sure if both can be activated in Window 7 at the same time ]
 Control Panel > Hardware & sounds > Sound 
 In Playback tab, select  Speaker / Headphone and click the drop-down. 
 Select Default

You can now enjoy hearing and headphone!

markhelp · Answer

To clarify:

This fix works because the computer will use audio drivers from the default Windows driver library.  So after you do this fix you would expect for everything to work just fine.

markhelp · Answer

You could apply this method (basically of making Windows use default drivers) to similar audio issues, ie I have done this with a computer with Realtek audio as well (although the original problem was totally different)

Boatmike · Answer

worked great!!! thanks

rarespa · Answer

worked great!!!

pooja · Answer

hi but there is only speaker and it is unable to touch default setting

[solved] Headphones not working with Windows

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