7805u does anyone have same sound problems?

hi, i have gateway p-7805u fx and i have rather weird and annoying problem. when i got the system i was not looking into test out headphone jack. i assume that when i just plug in a headphone, speaker would stop working and carry the sound to headphone automatically... but it did not. so i thought i have sound hardware issue, but when i go to headphone option, i can hear test sound fine. so i thought it was driver issue and... it was not. so i had to fiddle the sound card options and drivers for good couple hours and came to rather annoying solution. whenever i use headphone, i have to go to sound option and disable primary sound output(speaker) and enable headphone as primary sound output. and other annoying part is that i have to reset/restart my current running applications that output any sound, this including youtube, games, and etc. can this driver smart enough switch back and forth when i plug in the headphone? anyone have same annoying issue? will updating bios help anything in this issue? i have 9c.11 originally installed. will .12 improve anything? also one thing i notice that in my device manager i see 2 sound driver one is for conexant high definition smartaudio 221(version 4.57.0.50) and the other is nvidia high definition audio(version 1.0.0.37). is this normal? thanx for your help!

--ps. two other curious things
1. my hdd constanly blinks. is it normal for this computer?
2. my fan seems to contanly burst out wind instead of keep going in high speed. it's kinda sound like 'whooshi~ (slow down for a bit)and then 'whooshi~' minor sound annoyance but is it normal?

thanx again!


--Space Harrier

 

Right click on your volume icon, selecting playback devises, then right click on your headphones and set it as the default device. It will auto pick up the headphones as primary and will have the speakers as secondary.

 

The Nvidia high definition audio driver is for audio over HDMI, fwiw, my fan also occasionally kicks up some dust and then spins down for no apparent reason as well.

 

thanx for your help! i guess im not the only one with this annoyance... i wonder why they did this instead of auto-detecting. i guess i have to do the same thing if i wanted to connect with hdmi. i wish they change this in upcoming software revision... but then again, i have not much faith in this since i had to find this out without manuals and such... which was not included in the package. this computer rocks as a hardware but as for user convinience... not much... -_- thanx anyway guys!

--SpaceHarrier

 

i had the same problem as you tc, uninstall your sound driver and then re-install it should work.. did for me (now it auto detects the headphones..but i still have to manually change for hdmi)

 

I read the fan kicks in when the GPU reaches 50°C, I don't know if that's true or not though.

 

It's true, mine does it as well. It's been posted in many forum threads already.