Front panel headphone jack problems

[pcxajb]

I've seen similar posts regarding this, however none have helped so I'm starting my own one...hopefully someone can help.

I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 64bit. In XP, I used the front panel headphone jack for hooking up to my TV, or headset. Since I've upgraded, this headphone jack doesn't work. The 'Manage Audio devices' in the control panel shows headphones as not connected in the front jack. The microphone works fine.

I've tried looking for updated drivers - I have the latest. I tried to switch the BIOS settings from HDaudio to AC97 - doesn't work. I tried to install the Soundmax High Definition Audio utility from my motherboard installation disk, but Windows 7 won't let me run the setup (not compatible with the OS).

Any advice / help would be appreciated.

System specs are:

Motherboard - ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS
Sound - (with the motherboard) Supreme FX Audio
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4 GHz
Memory - 4 GB
Video - Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB
OS - Windows 7 64bit

 

[shimmy river]

Front side audio jack 'not plugged in'

I have the exact same motherboard : P5N32-E SLI.
I'm using the soundcard that came with the mobo (supreme fx).
Just upgraded from 32 bit Vista Home edition to 64 bit Win 7 Professional.
My front headphone jack has not worked since the upgrade.
Control Panel identifies the Headphones as 'not plugged in'.

In a slightly unrelated topic. My xbox 360 is hooked up to the line in port for sound at back of my pc. It was always a bit distorted with Vista (a problem I was too lazy to confront).
But since the upgrade to Win 7 the distortion has become intolerable.

Anyone out there who can help?
cheers.

 

[Larryec]

I just installed Windows 7 two day ago and since installing, my headphones pluged into my front panel are not working. I have onboard sound with my Intel DP965Lt board.

 

[BuGi]

Exactly the same problem here. My motherboard is Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, and I'm using its own sound chip. The headphones (front panel jack) are reported as "Not plugged in" when they obviously are. Microphone works fine from the front panel, so there shouldn't be any hardware issue.

It worked perfectly in windows 7 RC which I upgraded from, now using Win 7 Pro 64bit.

Using the drivers from asus for vista 64bit, the front jack kinda works. I can't see it in the sound devices, but everything that goes to speakers, goes there too. So I prefer to get it working with the drivers from windows update, was great with the RC when you could just select different sound outputs for different programs, if the programs supported that. So I had ventrilo for voice chat from my headphones and everything else from speakers (default).

That seems to be impossible now. Any help would be greatly appreciated :/

 

[Samerramez]

I've seen similar posts regarding this, however none have helped so I'm starting my own one...hopefully someone can help.

I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 64bit. In XP, I used the front panel headphone jack for hooking up to my TV, or headset. Since I've upgraded, this headphone jack doesn't work. The 'Manage Audio devices' in the control panel shows headphones as not connected in the front jack. The microphone works fine.

I've tried looking for updated drivers - I have the latest. I tried to switch the BIOS settings from HDaudio to AC97 - doesn't work. I tried to install the Soundmax High Definition Audio utility from my motherboard installation disk, but Windows 7 won't let me run the setup (not compatible with the OS).

Any advice / help would be appreciated.

System specs are:

Motherboard - ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS
Sound - (with the motherboard) Supreme FX Audio
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4 GHz
Memory - 4 GB
Video - Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB
OS - Windows 7 64bit

I have the same problem but my motherboard is BIOSTAR-P4M900-M7 FE

is there any one solved this problem ???

 

[justyya]

Hi Rad this it might be helpful..:huh:

http://www.sevenforums.com/342507-post2.html

 

[Samerramez]

Hi Rad this it might be helpful..:huh:

http://www.sevenforums.com/342507-post2.html

Have you set the front panel in the BIOS to AC'97?

thanks but how i can do it ??

 

[BuGi]

Hi Rad this it might be helpful..:huh:

http://www.sevenforums.com/342507-post2.html

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pcxajb already said in the first post that it didn't help. Tried it myself too and didn't do anything, even when uninstalling + reinstalling the device under windows.

 

[shimmy river]

I updated my audio driver to 64 bit vista driver from 32 bit....got my front panel headphones back woooo!

 

[kyhits]

headphones not plugged in

Hey guys I just installed 7 a couple of hours of go and am am having the no headphone issues as well. some of you said that yuo had to change the bios settings. I have done it before with my dvd-rom but someone was walking me through it step by step. Can someoen give laymen term insturtion about getting my headphone jack working

 

[shimmy river]

I manged to get 64 bit vista driver for my audio from my mobo's website...then I followed the instructions from darkassain near the bottom of this page....
http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/1907-asus-supremefx-x-fi.html
My headphones now work again on the front panel.
I see it as a stop gap measure until some proper Win 7 drivers are released...I tried the BIOS thing....seemed irrelevant to me and didn't work anyway.
Hope this helps

 

[pcxajb]

I manged to get 64 bit vista driver for my audio from my mobo's website...

Shimmy River, any chance you can link the page where you got the driver from? As you have exactly the same motherboard as I do I want to try it too (I'm sure I looked before but couldn't find any updated drivers...)

Glad you are all working now!

 

[pcxajb]

Shimmy River, found the driver (Vista 64bit) on the Asus support website, installed it as per the instructions on the other post, and voila! Front headphones work again.

Many thanks, all fixed

 

[Gibber]

Still no success

I tried "updating" to a Vista x64 driver from ASUS (ALC882_51005125.zip) but after rebooting I got popups indicating that both ALCMTR and RTHDCPL were incompatible with windows 7, and there was no audio out.

It seems Realtek are releasing a new driver every three or four days. I also tried installing R2.36 from Nov. 2 but it still does not get my audio jack config correct in the RT HD Audio Manager and no audio out the front jack.

Will keep checking here and also Realtek for working solution.

Gibber

 

[uty]

Hey just wanted to add my 2cents here... Mine was a really dumb "issue" completely due to my dumbness... I've got a Gygabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H MB with Realtek audio and the issue was that I had to switch in the menu to "Disable front jack detection" and it all worked fine. I read it in the manual for my MB.

 

[pcxajb]

I knew it was too good to be true.....

Headphones work fine since I installed the Vista 64 drivers from the Asus website. Problem now is the front panel microphone (that was working fine before), is now extremely quiet.

I've given up with this and just bought a lead to connect the back panel microphone (which works fine) so my headset can reach for a couple of quid, but there's definitely something still wrong. Was just wondering if anyone else who has fixed the headphones issue (Shimmy River??) is having similar problems with the microphone?

 

[shimmy river]

I have to say that I do not use the microphone jack in my everyday pc activity so I haven't really checked it out. I'm now having problems with sudden system crashes (event id 41 - source kernel power). I'm sure it has nothing to do with the vista 64 driver though.

could handle the front panel audio working...but system crashes is another matter..damn

 

[valem888]

download the drivers for W7 and W7 x64 from
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

 

[Gibber]

Which ASUS Windows 7 driver?

Hi Valem,

Further to your suggestion can you be more specific as to which windows 7 driver? I cannot find a windows 7 driver at ASUS for the ALC882 codec on my MB. Note that my MB is an ASUS P5LP-LE which is not found on the ASUS site because it is made by ASUS for HP.

Also I just tried the latest from Realtec, R2.38 to no avail. Still no front panel audio.



Gibber

 

[Its me again]

Don`t know if this will help anyone,

My front panel jacks don`t work since my windows 7 upgrade, I read at another website that sometimes the problem is that slightly older pc`s have a different front panel and the new sound drivers for windows7 don`t account for this.

I bought a USB headset , it works fine.

I know it doesn`t fix the problem , but at least im back using my headset and mic again.

Have a nice day