Plugging in headphones SOMETIMES deactivates internal speakers

[peterma71]

Hi,
in order to play without disturbing the rest of the household, i use headphones.

Or rather, I used to, on other machines, because no amount of configuration, nudging of jack,
coarse language or burning of incense, have proved to have a lasting effect; sometimes it
works as intended, sometimes not. I listen to music in WMP, netradio in IE/FF, play video
in WMP/VLC, play DOS, 16/32/whatever-bit games and theres no way of telling when it will
work. Yesterday, playing 'Future Pinball', I had sound in my headphones, tomorrow it might
as well be internal only, driving the wife nuts.

PC is type vpcf11s1e, windows 7 home premium, all updates and no funny business installed (yet).

Happy easter vacation (whereever it may apply)
Per

[peterma71]

jack,

Problem gone. I'll never know whether it's because of an update, divine intervention or even the _remote_ possibility, that I've used the wrong socket, but it's gone.

[Blencogo]

All is well that ends well!