G50v, no sound from speakers. Headphones work

I've been having this problem for a while. It still plays sound trough my headphones when I plug them in. The bootup sound plays as normal.

Realtek HD audiomanager shows my L-in to be plugged in.

It appears a connector inside my minijack has simply broken off. It's simply not there anymore.

Is there a way I could re-configure my jacks so the L-in or mic-in could act as the L-out?

I've sent a mail to asus tech support, but they havn't given me any reply.

i run on Vista home premium 64bit.

 

Here are a couple of threads that may help. It sounds like you have a stuck headphone jack.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/349803-asus-g50vt-x1-stuck-headphone-mode.html#post4499516

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...556-g51j-a1-owners-lounge-34.html#post5879478

 

Thanks mate!

Only a tiny problem now. After changing the ForceDisableJD key too FF is that I now get sound both in my speakers and my headphones at the same time. Is the only way to live with this problem trough changing the values and reboot, or is there a way to change these settings and make them have effect without rebooting? thanks again +rep!

 

Create a registry key to change the settings back and forth. I named mine, "Speakers on" and "Speakers off." Then save them somewhere together so you can swap.

To give yourself a greater likelihood of being able to have it apply without having to reboot, shut down all applications that use sound, including apps you might not think of like your browser, Steam, etc. Once everything that might use sound is gone, you usually can apply your registry change, go into Device Manager and disable the Realtek audio there, and then wait till the icon disappears from your system tray. Half-second later, re-enable your audio device again. It should apply the new registry setting. This usually does not require you to reboot.

For myself, I finally gave up on that and over the holidays bought some cheapo flatpanel speakers powered by USB and running through the headphone jack from Best Buy. Paid $3 for them, so it was worth it to not have to run through that crap. Bonus: these speakers are louder and better than the built-in AND they happen to be very small and stick together via magnets. I suppose I should thank BB for sending me that $10 gift certificate for Xmas.

This has been a problem with Asus laptops overall for quite a while now. You can google Asus realtek headphone jack and you'll see they've got an epidemic of this kinda thing. Anecdotal evidence suggests you are likely to see your headphone jack fail again if you have it repaired, even by Asus. The jacks are just crap.

Then again, the Asus G73 is still having the keyboard lag/missing keystrokes problem that every Asus gaming laptop has had, since our G50, so maybe they don't even bother to fix faulty things?

 

sounds fair enough. Wonder why I havn't tought of the speakers great idea!

Thanks for the help!