Windows 10: sound will not play through speakers or any audio jack device

I've followed many steps online on how to fix the issue and im starting to go into a panic.nothing works as the title says

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Rear audio jack doesn't detect speakers, but will play sound through them if something is plugged into the front audio jack

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.

 

Audio Jack Detecting Headphones But No Sound Playing

Hi, my audio jack stopped working.

My speakers work fine, it's just any device plugged into the audio jack.

I've checked in Sounds and it detects my headphones, but when I try to test it no sound is audible (but the computer shows it's playing), just a faint click.

I've tried:

- re-installing the driver

- changing to native driver, countless restarts

- changing the default format

- restarting the Windows Audio service

nothing has worked yet.

Please help!!!

 

How to play audio/music through speakers AND bluetooth speakers


I have a pair of Creative T40 speakers plugged into the 3.5mm jack on my laptop. I got hold of a bluetooth speaker and that was recognised straight-away.

I have installed a large monitor (32inch) to the laptop on which I work as well as watch movies and play games. I was wondering if I could setup that audio, be it music, gaming audio or movie audio could be played through BOTH sets of speakers.

The main T40's are on either side of the monitor and I have the bluetooth speaker behind me on a shelf. That would, kind-of, give me surround sound. Or when I have people over I could get better sound if I could just move the bluetooth speaker to a different part of the room.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you.