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    m17x R3 - audio jack detection weirdness

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by bigpaw, Aug 22, 2011.

  1. bigpaw

    bigpaw Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey,

    Wondering if anyone else has this issue.

    When I plug in headphones to either headphone jack the laptop does what it's suppose to do, it causes all sound to come through the headphones.

    But, say I'm playing a song or watching a movie and I don't to listen to headphones anymore and I just want the audio to go through the laptop speakers and I unplug the headphones. This is where the weirdness happens - when the headphones unplug no sound plays through the laptop speakers.

    Many times I either have to plug and unplug the headphones a few times for the laptop to start playing through it's speakers and other times you just have to wait a while for sound to start playing after it stutters for a while.

    Anyone else have this issue or fixed it?

    Thanks.
     
    bigpaw, Aug 22, 2011
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  2. xps_m1710

    xps_m1710 Notebook Geek

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    not that this helps, but I think it must be a software issue, my brand new r3 has a similar issue, I'll have external speakers/headphones plugged in and then out of nowhere the sound just stops, unplug them and then plug them back in and the sound comes on again!
     
    xps_m1710, Aug 22, 2011
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  3. LVNeptune

    LVNeptune Notebook Virtuoso

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    This is a manufacturing defect. The audio jacks are defective.
     
    LVNeptune, Aug 22, 2011
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  4. vads24

    vads24 Notebook Evangelist

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    I would think there much more to that than audio jack defect alone...LV...if it was hardware defect why would so many of them say, windows audio driver works but just not IDT.

    Changing motherboards are very costly affairs for Dell or any other company too. Do you think they would go on with this set of defective motherboards or jacks and incur such a costly replacement?

    What do you think? By now if it was a mere hardware issue I think they would have revised their versions as we have had ample time from the first time this unique problem was reported. About 5 months I believe.
     
    vads24, Aug 23, 2011
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