Music coming out of headphones and speakers?

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Hi there,

Not sure if any one can help, as I've scowered the internet and can find nought on this problem. The problem I'm having is that I can't play music just through my earphones, they're plugged in properly, and i've tried several different headphones, but when ever i play the music it also comes out of the speakers on my laptop :s whats the point in having earphone sockets if its gonna come out of the laptop speakers anyways?

I'm running windows 7 and i have a Toshiba L500D :)

Any help would be much appreciated thank you :thumbs:
 
If you have all the up to date drivers, you should be able to go to the 'mixer' settings and adjust the volume individually. Sorry not got a Tosh so going off general practice.

Paul.
 
norvic-boy said:
Hi there,

Not sure if any one can help, as I've scowered the internet and can find nought on this problem. The problem I'm having is that I can't play music just through my earphones, they're plugged in properly, and i've tried several different headphones, but when ever i play the music it also comes out of the speakers on my laptop :s whats the point in having earphone sockets if its gonna come out of the laptop speakers anyways?

I'm running windows 7 and i have a Toshiba L500D :)

Any help would be much appreciated thank you :thumbs:
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it should flip over automatically, do you have another pair of hearphones you can test?

reason i say is i have a 3.5mm extension lead at home that fits in 99% of my devices except for the socket on my laptop where it doesnt register unless you really press it hard into the socket.

it could of course be a duff socket.
 
PaulF said:
If you have all the up to date drivers, you should be able to go to the 'mixer' settings and adjust the volume individually. Sorry not got a Tosh so going off general practice.

Paul.
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Thanks, but my earphones don't even seem to register on the mixer :thinking:

neil_g said:
it should flip over automatically, do you have another pair of hearphones you can test?

reason i say is i have a 3.5mm extension lead at home that fits in 99% of my devices except for the socket on my laptop where it doesnt register unless you really press it hard into the socket.

it could of course be a duff socket.
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I've just tried giving them another nudge but no signs of the music coming off the main speakers completely :thinking:
I hope it isn't a duff socket, i haven't got a spare pair to hand but I'll try later... is there no software bug or anything that could be effecting it?

Thanks for your help so far :)
 
norvic-boy said:
Thanks, but my earphones don't even seem to register on the mixer :thinking:



I've just tried giving them another nudge but no signs of the music coming off the main speakers completely :thinking:
I hope it isn't a duff socket, i haven't got a spare pair to hand but I'll try later... is there no software bug or anything that could be effecting it?

Thanks for your help so far :)
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normally the laptop will detect the headphone connection and the headphones will show up in the OS. id be inclined to suggest a hardware connection fault as a first point of call.
 
neil_g said:
normally the laptop will detect the headphone connection and the headphones will show up in the OS. id be inclined to suggest a hardware connection fault as a first point of call.
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Would you by any chance know how I could go about fixing that myself?
 
I have seen this before where the driver was configured not to turn off the speakers when headphones were plugged in. If I'm understanding you correctly the sound is coming out of the headphones and the speakers? So its probably not a busted socket.

If you look in your driver settings (usually there's an icon in the system tray which you can use to access the virtual "sound deck" (not the volume icon) and you can probably tweak the options to only play out of one device.

I googled, and it appears to be reported several times. First and third results look promising:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour....,cf.osb&fp=503a106c9e01e775&biw=1192&bih=951
 
from one of those links:
Hi,

Had the same problem. Simple solution.

Go to : "Control Panel"
Click: "Realtek HD Audio manager"
With the "Speakers Tab" highlighted
Click: "Connector settings" (this is the icon of a yellow folder, in the blue shaded part, on the top right hand side of the screen)
Click: "Enable auto popup dialogue box"
Click: "OK"
Plug in headphones
When pop up comes up, select "headphones" as the item plugged in (NOT line out)
Done
 
trencheel303 said:
from one of those links:
Hi,

Had the same problem. Simple solution.

Go to : "Control Panel"
Click: "Realtek HD Audio manager"
With the "Speakers Tab" highlighted
Click: "Connector settings" (this is the icon of a yellow folder, in the blue shaded part, on the top right hand side of the screen)
Click: "Enable auto popup dialogue box"
Click: "OK"
Plug in headphones
When pop up comes up, select "headphones" as the item plugged in (NOT line out)
Done
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the realtek auto switches on detection of a connection plugged in, you dont need the pop up or manually changing a setting :)
 
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