nstong

Nergal thought this was my thread, and closed mine, so I might as well respond here. I am having a similar problem and have gone through a lot of troubleshooting steps. After going back to manufacturer audio driver and BIOS the issue seems to be that the headphones are not being recognized when plugged in. The front headphone jack is recognized, but I think it not working is tied to the rear not being identified. I had some issues on newer realtek drivers with the rear speaker output being listed as an input, but with the driver I have now everything seems to be identified correctly, but it is just listed as disconnected in playback devices because it is not registering. Could this be due to something deleted from the registry? Why would this not be restored from the either the ccleaner backup or from the system restore? Can I check if anything is missing by looking at the ccleaner backup?

any idea what you did? This happened to me and I have reinstalled the driver many times, and system restore and nothing has worked. How long before it started working?

I ran ccleaner on registry and on some temporary files. That was this morning and I soon realized after that I had no sound (through headphones). The playback device shows up (only when headphones are plugged in) and it shows that audio is playing the mixer. I have tried different sets of headphones and verified they work. I restored the registry back up that was made, updated sound drivers, and have now done a system restore and nothing has helped. I have now gotten a message from windows that my BIOS is out of date so I updated that. I still can not get anything to work. Everything on the computer says it's working but I hear nothing. Any help on what might have happened?