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Tartarga

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Ok, for some reason my computer will not let me use headphones. Its my school computer and whenever I plug in my headphones the sound still comes out the speakers. This computer starting malfunctioning so my teacher gave me a different one and it still does it. I thought it may have been the headphones themselves but when I got new ones its still doing it. Please, if anyone knows whats going wrong please tell me what to do. I miss my music.
 

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Wait im confused are you at school? Do you have the possibility to uninstall and reinstall sound drivers or do we have to work with what we have? I would say at first mess with the sound settings because sometimes all it takes is a box to be filled in and everything is better. It may also be just something that the school does to prevent you from listening to music.

Like I said more information is needed.
 

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BonsaiK said:
Did it work previously, or has it never worked?
It was working fine a few weeks ago but just stopped.
syndicated44 said:
Wait im confused are you at school? Do you have the possibility to uninstall and reinstall sound drivers or do we have to work with what we have? I would say at first mess with the sound settings because sometimes all it takes is a box to be filled in and everything is better. It may also be just something that the school does to prevent you from listening to music.

Like I said more information is needed.
I am at school yes, its this computer that I am on right now that is angering me so much and I am not sure about the sound drivers, I would have to ask my teacher but he is not here today so I can't really give any more information than that.
 

BonsaiK

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bleachigo10 said:
BonsaiK said:
Did it work previously, or has it never worked?
It was working fine a few weeks ago but just stopped.
syndicated44 said:
Wait im confused are you at school? Do you have the possibility to uninstall and reinstall sound drivers or do we have to work with what we have? I would say at first mess with the sound settings because sometimes all it takes is a box to be filled in and everything is better. It may also be just something that the school does to prevent you from listening to music.

Like I said more information is needed.
I am at school yes, its this computer that I am on right now that is angering me so much and I am not sure about the sound drivers, I would have to ask my teacher but he is not here today so I can't really give any more information than that.
It's possible that sound has been disabled through that output, depends how tech savvy your school are. When I went to school the computer staff were thick as two bricks and couldn't disable a parking space but then my school was horrid in so many ways it requires its own special thread just to talk about all the ways in which they sucked.

Stupid question, are you putting your headphones in the right hole?

Go into your volume control, make sure advanced settings is checked (if available) and all the faders are up and nothing is muted. Then start messing with the properties and so forth. Try a different device driver if there is a choice for more than one. See how you go with that.

If that doesn't work, check the settings of the actual playback software you're using. Might be something muted that shouldn't be, maybe volume is down, maybe device driver isn't the same one that windows itself is using, etc.
 

Tartarga

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BonsaiK said:
bleachigo10 said:
BonsaiK said:
Did it work previously, or has it never worked?
It was working fine a few weeks ago but just stopped.
syndicated44 said:
Wait im confused are you at school? Do you have the possibility to uninstall and reinstall sound drivers or do we have to work with what we have? I would say at first mess with the sound settings because sometimes all it takes is a box to be filled in and everything is better. It may also be just something that the school does to prevent you from listening to music.

Like I said more information is needed.
I am at school yes, its this computer that I am on right now that is angering me so much and I am not sure about the sound drivers, I would have to ask my teacher but he is not here today so I can't really give any more information than that.
It's possible that sound has been disabled through that output, depends how tech savvy your school are. When I went to school the computer staff were thick as two bricks and couldn't disable a parking space but then my school was horrid in so many ways it requires its own special thread just to talk about all the ways in which they sucked.

Stupid question, are you putting your headphones in the right hole?

Go into your volume control, make sure advanced settings is checked (if available) and all the faders are up and nothing is muted. Then start messing with the properties and so forth. Try a different device driver if there is a choice for more than one. See how you go with that.

If that doesn't work, check the settings of the actual playback software you're using. Might be something muted that shouldn't be, maybe volume is down, maybe device driver isn't the same one that windows itself is using, etc.
Yes it was plugged in the right hole, I made sure of that. Anyway I fiddled around with the settings like you suggested and it worked. Thank you very much for the advice.
 

BonsaiK

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Awesome, fixed. Probably one of your silly classmates accidentally clicked something they shouldn't and was too scared to tell anyone. All's well that ends well.