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Laptop sound problem
Created 24th May 2011 @ 00:16
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Sup,
My PC died a month ago and I’ve been using my laptop since. It can run TF2 okayish so I’ll be using my laptop at LAN too but I have a little problem with it.
When I have mumble open (not even connected to any servers or anything, just open) I got mumble sound properly through my headset, all other audio however goes through my laptop speakers. Which makes playing TF2 or doing anything else with sound slightly annoying.
Doesn’t happen only with mumble, also happens when I open the steam settings window on the voice tab; when I select the sound output to be ‘headset’ instead of ‘speakers’ in skype; when I start Brink (except with brink ALL sound is through speakers, none through headset). Could happen with other programs too, dunno.
Also if I disable my speakers in the settings the sound still won’t go through my headset, it just won’t play at all.
Can anyone help me make the sound play only through headset even with mumble etc open? Would be much appreciated.
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HP 625
Windows 7 64bit
Last edited by Datenshi,
i had the same thing with skype.. everything came from headphones but the notification sound from pm`s in skype came from the speakers.. how no idea why and how to fix it though..
also – OS ?
Last edited by doks,
Forgot to include that in OP, go me :|
My laptop is a HP 625, it’s running Windows7 64bit atm.
actually double checked – skype is working fine now.. but i can recall i had the problem… now i have win7 x32… when i had the problem i had win7 x64. maybe that can help somebody to figure out the problem.
hello, I had the same issue and this helped : go to control panel/sound and click the last tab “communications” and there “When windows detects communications activity” choose the option —>Do Nothing. Hope it helps. It’s very annoying
It is already set to that, I don’t get the problem that windows sets the sound quieter, it plays it through speakers instead of headset.
I am sorry that this didn’t help. I had the exact same issue as you and the only thing i changed was this and the problem was solved.
Just occurred to me. Do you have any sort of weird notebook sound managing applications running ? I uninstalled them all, they were only causing problems.
Last edited by Raven @ TF2GR,
Just uncheck the “Disable front panel jack detection” (you can access this option when you press the yellow folder in Realtek HD Audio Manager) and in the Device advanced settings check “Mute the rear output device, when a front headphone plugged in” and your ready to go.
I see a copy paste here naMu :P
Don’t have realtek, got IDT HD Sound CP and no option like that anywhere there. :/ Do laptops even have that option?
I’m guessing you can’t just ‘fix’ this, if so is there any way to cheat it with a 3rd party program or something?
happened me with skype on my laptop.. had to take the battery out, and hold the power button for about 10secs, I had tried everything but that fixed it :)
Quoted from Datenshi
I see a copy paste here naMu :P
Don’t have realtek, got IDT HD Sound CP and no option like that anywhere there. :/ Do laptops even have that option?
I’m guessing you can’t just ‘fix’ this, if so is there any way to cheat it with a 3rd party program or something?
Yeah since I dont work for HP anymore, changed to Adobe like 2 months a go, so I could not go to test unit and check (like I would have usually done). Anyways idea is the same, reinstall the soundcard drivers to the bugger and it should fix all the factory settings back to it and help on the issue.
and I just assumed without checking that you would have realtek since 95% of HP unit uses realtek.
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