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?
Hmm…
Something like that
Motherboard name: Asus F3000Sr Series Notebook
Motherboard chipset: Intel Crestline-PM PM965
BIOS Type: AMI
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.
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
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/ .
my codec is ALC 883 btw
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.