Windows 10: Rear audio jack doesn't detect speakers, but will play sound through them if something is...

Until today, I've been using a pair of active speakers with my PC. They've been plugged into the rear audio jack, and there's been no issue.


Today, I set-up my new pair of passive speakers i.e. the speakers are now connected through an external amp, and plugged them into the rear audio jack. However, my system didn't recognise that any speakers were plugged in, and no sound was being produced.


So I tried plugging my old speakers back into the rear audio jack. Again, nothing detected by the system, and no sound produced.


However, here's where it gets really confusing.

If I plug the new speakers into the rear audio jack and plug the old speakers into the front audio jack, then the system will think I've connected headphones to the front jack and will play music out of the new speakers.

And if I plug the old speakers into rear and new into front, again the system thinks headphones have been connected, but will play sound out of the new speakers.


So, in short, my rear audio jack isn't detecting anything, but if I plug speakers into both the front and back audio jacks, sound plays out of the new speakers, regardless of where they're connected.


I'm using the onboard Realtek Audio Control, and have successfully updated it to the latest drivers to no benefit. I've also tried many combination of the settings in Realtek Audio Control, but it's still not detecting anything when plugged into the rear audio jack.

The motherboard is a ASUS Prime Z370-P, and the OS is Windows 10.

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Hello Everyone

Last week I was changing my Graphiccard a few times to test another one and finally installed my old one back in. After I restarted my Computer all rear audio jacks as well as the front audio jacks stopped working. I can safely say, that it is not an issue with my Speakers.

I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Realtek HD Audio drivers numerous times, everytime getting different results. Sometimes the Speakers are not visible at all on the choose audio output screen and sometimes they are, but they never seem to work. My Headset( Connected via USB) and my Monitor speakers( Connected via Dvi to HDMI Cable) work fine. There is also at all times the Realtek Digital Output listed, which I don't know the use of.




Inside the Realtek Audio Manager i can only choose options for the digital Output. When i chose to disable the front jack recognition inside the Manager the speakers would show up, but the test sound didnt give any sound whatsoever. However when plugging in headphones to the front green jack, the speakers started a deep humming sound. I could even control the volume of this sound with my computer volumesettings.



Here the front jacks arent visible because i disabled them, without any progress, in the bios.

I also had a look at the cables connecting the front jacks with the mothereboard and made sure there was no loose contact. The speakers are connected to the green audio jack. The volume on both the speakers and the pc is turned on. Before the change everything was working fine.

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