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No headphone sound, Realtek driver problem.
Hi all, this is my first post so I feel a bit of a fraud getting help from here, but it's driving me insane.
For a while now I've had the problem of no sound from my headphones. This is the situation and what I've tried:
- Sound comes from the headphones when using the standard Windows 7 driver that installs itself. However this is too quiet for me and not what I want.
- I update to the latest Realtek driver (2.71) from their website and sound stops coming from the headphones.
- Sound comes from the laptop speakers.
- I have done a clean install of Windows 7 but it didn't solve anything.
- Windows detects the headphones are plugged in (I get the alert that I've plugged something in the audio jack).
- The headphones work fine on other computers.
- The Realtek GUI also shows I have the headphones plugged in.
- I have always had the automatic detection unchecked on the Realtek manager.
- I have tried editing the registry as the pinned thread suggests but it has no effect.
My specs: Dell Inspiron N5030
Processor: Intel Pentium T4500 / 2.3 GHz ( Dual-Core )
Memory: 3GB
Hard Drive: 320.0 GB - Serial ATA-300 - 5400.0 rpm
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition
Graphics Processor: Intel GMA 4500MHD Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0
Audio: High Definition Audio Device
Thanks for any help. This problem is seriously bugging me and is so frustrating.