Asus F3Ja speakers suddenly won't mute when I plug in my headphones

Today, out of the blue, my F3Ja stopped muting the speakers when I plug my headphones in. I can't for the life of me find any setting that corresponds with this behaviour, and I definitely didn't change it. Reinstalling the audio drivers didn't change anything. The Realtek audio manager correctly detects when I plug in my headphones, but the speakers aren't muted.

I'm at a loss here, has anyone had a similar issue?

 

Me among other f3ja-users have experienced the same problem.
Read this, and let me know if it don't fix your problem

Edit: Is it just me, or do you guys also see alot of this on the f3j series?
Do we have any f3j users that HAS NOT faced this issue?

 

well I tried switching SPDIF on and off, rebooting with it on and off, it just won't go away

 

Exactly same problem suddenly appeared with my F3JC too. I think this is a common problem with Asus notebooks. Anyone wrote on asus.com forum ?

 

Let me answer my own question.Yes we are not alone.Same problem no solution yet.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...&board_id=3&model=F3Jc&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

I have not seen this problem personally, but this might a sound jack hardware failure, it was a common problem for Z70Va. It happened like this: a guy in the lab had his headset plugged in to enjoy his music, everyone looked at him because of his loud music from the speaker, but he never realised this, just thought everyone looked at him because he looked really handsome.

 

It is a shame that asus used faulty hardware again !

Same problem & audio dj replacement solution:

http://geared2play.com//phpbb/nfphpbb/viewtopic.php?t=457
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=33980

 

idk, but my problem just disapeared. It might have been bad contact which kinda solved itself by me moving my notebook alot. I have no clue, but still asus should fix this. are they aware of the outputweakness?

 

Who can guarrantee that it will not happen again in any time.Btw I opened a case on ASUS Online Technical Service and waiting for their reply.

 

I have a F3Ja and haven't ever experienced this problem. I have only had ot for 2-3 months so maybe it'll happen to me but hasn't happened so far.

 

Another "lucky" F3J series owner. After little under a week`s waiting, I recieved a mail from Asus support kindly suggesting me to update my F3Jc´s BIOS to revision 300, which I have already done but it didn't fix it.

 

siLc and others, you may also contact local service center. PM me if you need case ID.

 

Well, indeed there is only one thing to do, one place to go - warranty @ reseller.

Out of desperation and curiosity, I installed Vista RC2 and appropriate R150 drivers off Realtek`s website. One thing besides Vista`s good looks, but so far crap driver support, I noticed that the built-in speakers were muted and the audio signal only came from the audio-out port, no matter if SPDIF was enabled of not. After quickly getting frustrated with Vista, I recovery-cd´ed back to WinXP and found the situation to be as same as before in WinXP - status quo.

 

The same problem in quite a few variations plagued the z70va.
1. Speakers work but will not mute when headphones plugged in. cause is a faulty dj
2. speakers do not work or produce weird sound. Sometimes they work sometimes they dont. Very random. Same cause as above
3. the constant red light in the spdif port. Same cause and effects as above.
Thus far we replaced about 3 dozen audio djs maybee more. I belive cpuntless other people out there dont even realize they may develop this. It sounds the same as this issue.