1640 speakers seem to have died

Basically what happens is that when I boot up, even when I have no headphones in, it always seems to claim that it does. Sometimes when you put headphones in it it works, sometimes not. When you take them out again it sometimes realises and then says it's playing through speakers but it still never plays anything.

I've tried reinstalling IDT but that didn't help, I think the speakers themselves are ok since I think I can hear them make a muffled pop when I turn it on but the don't even play the bootup sound. I might try to see if they will do a PC beep through the BIOS though. Has anyone else ever had a problem similar to this with their 1640?

EDIT: I'm fairly sure this is a driver problem since I can hear things through headphones when I use media players but not when I play flash videos.

 

Have you tried reinstalling Flash player?

Have you tried reinstalling OS on another hard drive and try to rule out drivers completely or try a Linux Boot disc.

 

It also seems to have preferance over which headphone port I use. The middle one only seems to work with media player, but the right hand one works with most things.

 

i have the same problem. the headphone jack for me got worn out or something. the computer thinks there is something always plugged into the jack so it will never play through the speakers. but if you jiggle it around sometimes the speakers will work for a second. i'm trying to find a way to just disable that jack so i can just use the other one, since there is two.

 

Do you think there is any way we could get a new jack? I'm pretty decent with a soldering iron and I doubt it would be surface mount or anything like that. Afaik, you'd probably only have 18 odd connections at most.

 

Is it still under Dell warranty? If so RMA it.