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  • Blagged an old pair of computer speakers and currently trying to work out how to switch between the headphones and speakers.

    PC has a front and rear panel have the standard green 3.5mm jack. When I plug headphones in the front the speakers switch off. I want a way to manually turn on the speakers - don't mind if only the rear jack plays or both front and rear jack play.

    Am I missing something obvious?

    Both playback devices are listed as the same name (can't seem to find a way to rename them) and when I switch between them all that happens is the headphones turn on or off - but the speakers will not play if the headphones are plugged into the front jack.

    Any ideas?

    Trying to download https://realtek-download.com/download-hd/ but for some reason it's taking forever (1.30hrs!). But thought there might be something simple I'm missing.

    Cheers.

    EDIT: I think I've renamed them at least.


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  • I'm going to guess it's the joy of this connector and the ac97/hd audio split on some realtek stuff or even just a driver that supports it and has created 2 devices for you with neither of them being the headphone ports.

    Try have a dig around in control panel to setup more audio devices.

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