Low volume through headphones on laptop

Hey guys first time poster.

I have read lots of info on similar problems but never managed to sustain an answer that was relevant to me. I bought new headphones, which are clearly meant for other use than listening through a laptop, but anyway. The problem is in the title as it where. Ive seen lots of people babble on about realtek audio drivers, but suffice to say the only info i have about my sound card is thats its a High Defintion Audio Device Driver. I know computers a bit, but im also a bit of a moron.
Anyhoo, is there and solution to go into the driver and enable it to be configured as headphones(i heard that somewhere) as speakers is the only option there. Or is it simply just to fork out on a new sound card, or even better a new pissing laptop!

So i have read that back and it is very cluttered heh, but if anyway can understand my half English i would be very much obliged.
Thanks

Yeah, tried all the basic solutions but to no avail. Its the same problem with my iPhone so it seems to be recognising the headphones as something else(maybe).

Its a Phillips SHP2500. How would i go about finding out what is the right driver?

yeah, volume i all the way.

The laptop was given to me second hand.

same problem with the iPhone, so nothing to do with the laptop. The headphones are acting like speakers i guess, but i cant control it with a shit laptop and no proper answers on soundcard issues, just conjecture. But thanks anyway guys.