Front Audio Headphone Jack isn't working

JuggarJones · 31 Jan 2014 at 20:26

Well, I used to plug my headphones into the back of my PC, but that is not possible anymore. I just can't plug in the cables without moving my desk, which requires me to move drawers, but they're full.

If I plug my headphones into the green headphone jack in the front, I can hear a sort of static noise that you hear when you plug some headphones into any jack, but I won't hear any sound from videos or anything. The USB ports at the front are also in working condition, so it isn't to do with them.

I was trying to look up the solution on the internet and it was saying I need to enable onboard audio devices in the BIOS or something similar. I looked through my BIOS and changed "Onboard Audio Devies" (or something similar) from HD Audio to A-something. This didn't help either.

I use windows 8 and my current motherboard is Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G

wazza300 · 31 Jan 2014 at 20:51

with the hdaudio drivers installed/realtek drivers look for and select ac97audio or disable front panel jack detection it will be labelled as either one of those two,then you should get sound through front headphone socket

JuggarJones · 31 Jan 2014 at 22:29

Some of the things I should have probably mentioned: This is a custom PC and also has a dedicated graphics card (Radeon 7870).

In the BIOS I looked at Onboard Auto Devices and it is set to AC97, if that's what you mean. Also, the back port for my headset works, but not the front.

Just looked at the list of playback devices, it says sound is being played, but I'm not hearing any.

wazza300 · 31 Jan 2014 at 22:52

itll be in realtek sound software

JuggarJones · 1 Feb 2014 at 21:47

Sorry if I sound stupid, but what realtek sound software? I have none on my computer that I can find, and I have tried installing HD Audio drivers from realtek but that hasn't helped.

wazza300 · 1 Feb 2014 at 22:00

you should see two speaker icons in the taskbar,one is the hd realtek audio software,in there there should be an option to set ac97 or disable front panel jack detection

it should give you sound then

I don't use those sound drivers or id post some pics up of where it is

JuggarJones · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:17

I didn't have 2 speak icons (the HD Realtek one), but I somehow managed to install something called VIA HD Audio Deck which has allowed me to enable the front panel and has fixed my problem!

Thanks for the help too!