Windows 10: The headphone jack on my laptop stopped working suddenly and randomly. Is there tech...

Sound still comes out of my laptop's speakers like normal, but plugging in headphones does nothing now. I messed around with my drivers and such, which did nothing and now I feel like I might have doomed myself to never fixing this problem because I don't really know what I'm doing and, I combined advice from like ten random websites and nothing worked. I've decided to come to Reddit as a last resort when it should've been my go-to. Please help if you can.

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Headphone jack not working

I have a 2 year old Asus laptop with Windows 10 installed. The headphones I have been using since I got the computer suddenly stopped working. The headphones still work, and sound comes out the computer, so it seems as though the problem is with the headphone
jack or driver. Right now in sounds, only the speakers are showing and there is no driver for headphones. Should there be one?

 

Headphone Jack on Laptop Stops Working Until Laptop is Powered Off


Have been having this problem for a while now.

Every so often, the headhphone jack on my laptop just stops working after hours and hours of the laptop being on.

The built-in speakers of the laptop work fine. What happens is that while the computer is in use (after some random amount of time), any hardware plugged into the headphone jack of the laptop will not playback sound. This includes headphones, speakers and the like. The sound device manager in control panel shows sound being output, and if the headphones/speakers are disconnected, the audio plays fine on the built-in speakers on the laptop.

I haven't been able to figure out what exactly causes this problem. I have tried resinstalling the driver several times. I am 100% sure it isn't the headphones of the speakers that I use as I use these speakers and headphones on many other devices (phone, tablet etc.)

The only way that this issue gets fixed is if the computer is shut down and then rebooted (a restart doesn't work, the computer has to literally lose power for the problem to be fixed).

It seems very intermittent and I'm not sure how to approach this problem

Any ideas?

 

Bluetooth headphones suddenly stopped working.


HI,

My Bluetooth headphones have suddenly stopped working. They were working fine this morning. The headphones are connected and I see it in devices + printers but I no longer see it in playback devices.

Any ideas?