No Sound From Front Audio Jack With Jack Sensing
- Posted February 11, 2008 at 11:33 pm
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A lot of modern sound cards, whether they are on-board or stand alone, support jack sensing. When you plug-in your speaker to a specific audio port on the back of your computer, the software driver will detect it and automatically enable that port. However, a lot of the front audio panels on those inexpensive computer cases do not support jack sensing. When you plug in your speaker or headphone to the audio jack at the front of your PC, the software driver may not be able to detect it and therefore you will hear any sound from it. You will need to disable the jack sensing feature for the front panel jack in order to hear any sound from it.
If you are using the Realtek audio chip and have installed Realtek’s Audio Manager, then here is how you can disable jack sensing for your front panel audio jack.
- Double click on the Realtek Audio Manager icon from the task bar next to the clock.
- In the Realtek Audio Manager, click on the “connector settings” icon (the yellow folder on the right).
- Check the box next to “Disable front panel jack detection” option.
- Click “OK” to save the setting.
You should now be able to hear sound from the front audio jack. If you are still not hearing anything, then you should check on the wiring inside your PC as the front panel cables may not be connected to your motherboard or sound card correctly.
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Please, help! I have no such “Device Advanced Settings” inside this manager. And my Speaker Configuration field is disabled and states “STEREO”, whatever I plug in – headphones or speakers.
I saw these options by myself some time ago, but now they dissapeared.
Thanks.
Are you using Realtek’s Audio Manager or something else? If you are using it, then you should click on the yellow folder as I have circled in the screenshot, not the “Device Advanced Settings”. If your Realtek Audio Manager looks different, then you may need to download the latest version from Realtek’s website.
I use Realtek’s Audio Manager… And just have downloaded latest version from Realtek’s website, but still can’t see this yellow folder
What’s the model of your motherboard?
I use a dell inspiron 9300, is there a similar programme which would allow me to disable my sound jack?
hey can u tell me which ver of realtek hd audio manager u got? cuz mine doesnt have all those stuff ur mentioning i see sound effect/mixer/[audio i/o]/microphone/3d audio demo as tabs and cant see anything that can disable jack sensing
my codec is ALC 883 btw
Hmm…
Something like that
Motherboard name: Asus F3000Sr Series Notebook
Motherboard chipset: Intel Crestline-PM PM965
BIOS Type: AMI
If I remmember correctly, I think I downloaded the Realtek Audio Manager from Realtek’s website. I know some motherboard vendor may have customized the program so that it looks different. So try downloading the program from Realtek’s website which is http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/ .
Do you have any ideas? Thanks.
Please take a look to see if your Audio Manager looks like this one.
http://www.lebokov21.com/images/realtek.jpg
No. My Audio Manager looks like on the top picture for this article. The main differences – no “Device Advanced Settings”, no yellow folder at the top right corner, under the word “ANALOG” there are only two circles – black and grey, and finally – no REALTEK logo at the bottom. I have downloaded different drivers many times from various places, including realtek.com.tw, but nothing changed.
hey listen my realtek looks like the one you uploaded xept that mine doesnt have the 2 check boxes there’s only one which is “enable auto popup dialog when device has been plugged in” and i downloaded the latest drive from realtek. can u please tell me where u got that one?
I have a different problem. I bought a CM 690 PC case but whether it’s the mobo or something else I just can’t seem to get the front microphone jack to be detected. This thing is HD Audio and the mobo allows a switch between HD and that other kind I forget which. But even so the headphones are detected just not the mic, pretty weird and pissing me off. What a waste… should’a bought a PC not built one.
Hi!
Genders I have a problem like this. I have AsRock NF7G FullHD motherboard 5.1 integrated CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (Realtek ALC662 Audio Codec) and there is not a sound for me.
And the little yellow thing that “Connektor Settings” is not for me there would bring it in.
Thank you so much! you’re my savior!
Here’s how my manager looks,
I have an Acer Aspire 7730G laptop.
Sorry, my last post didn’t work, here’s a link: http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee76/Eraknelo/Capture.png
Rene I have an Acer Aspire 9423 and my output speakers didn work. My bad I pluged in the speakers in the wrong jack (headphone jack is the proper one).I have the Realteck manager with the following manual:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/NewTech/2006_motherboard_newtech/hd_audio_driver_usermanualver1-00_0418-05.pdf
Follow the info on Apendix 7.1 and you should be fine!
For Vista try this:
go to the control panel click hardware and sound.
Click recording
right click anywhere where the devices should be and select show disabled devices
Make sure your microphone is enabled.
thanks it works like a charm..
I had the same problem with my Dell Precision 690 after I installed a third party sound card. To get the front jack to work I had to go into the Bios and enable the internal sound card. That did the trick; however, when I use the front jack I get this nasty hissing/static noise coming through the headphones.
I came across this ‘problem’ as well – namely no sound coming from the front audio panel. I think that it was sheer stupidity on the part of RealTek for having jack-sensing enabled BY DEFAULT. This means that hundreds and thousands of new computer owners plugging headphones and speakers into the front audio jack (for the first time) will hear nothing, and then waste lots of time wondering if they have failed hardware.
RealTek should have jack-sensing DISABLED by default, and then just give people the option to enable it later. Or at least have some kind of documentation in the instruction manual (in big writing) that indicates to the computer-users that front-panel-audio can often be enabled by (counter-intuitively) DISABLING jack-sensing in the realtek sound manager software.
Thank you very much:P
WOW THANKS MEN I HAVE SEARCH SO MUCH FOR A BASIC THING LIKE THIS HAHA Really THANKS !
Have just installed new ASUS motherboard along with drivers. The latest drivers do not seem to have the ability to turn off jack sensing, although your post did work with the older ones. This seems absolutely crazy to have removed this feature.
OK Just discovered Motherboard Bios has setting for AC97/HD Audio for front panel. Setting this to AC97 solved my problem
Thank you SO MUCH! A simple answer (well explained) that I’ve spent hours trying to figure out.