Plugging in headphones does not mute speakers
My speakers are working even when I plug in my headphone to the front jacks. So I hear sounds from both headphones and speakers. This is quite annoying.
How could I fix this? What could cause this problem?
I'm using Realtek HD Audio Manager 6.0.1.6392 in Windows 7. My motherboard is a Sapphire Tech PI-AM3RS785G.
Solution 1:
I have been looking over and over for the answer and keep getting information that has to do with buttons and options I don't have on my computer or steps that were just missing. Here is what I found.
Press Start.
Press Control Panel on the right side. (If it took you to Control Panel > All Control Panel Items; Press on Control Panel in the address bar at the top)
Press Hardware and Sound
Press Sound
This should give you a dialog box labeled Sound with 4 tabs labeled Playback, Recording, Sound and Communications.
While under the Playback tab; Plug in and Unplug your headset while looking for the Speakers that are going from Not plugged in to Ready. Click on the Speakers once you figure out which one it is.
Press Set Default at the bottom
Press Apply
This should set your head set to default while they are plugged in and go back to your other speakers when they are not.
Solution 2:
Open audio manager, on right top side there's "Device advanced settings". Click it and check if "Mute the read output device, when a front headphone plugged in" is selected.
Then click on "Connector settings", in my version (6.0.1.6194) it's the yellow button under the device advanced settings, and check that "Disable front panel jack detection" is not checked.
If it still doesn't work check if you have headphones connector on the speakers and use that instead, that should mute the speakers.
Solution 3:
Try this, I found it on some other forum and it worked for me, Check with volume settings.
- Right click on the speaker icon in taskbar and select volume control options.
- put a check mark on "All devices currently playing sound".
- Make sure you have "The default communication device unchecked".
- place a check mark on both speakers and headphones.