The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Headphone Jack Problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Speath, Dec 15, 2010.

  1. Speath

    Speath Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Morning all, please excuse if this question has been asked before - I did try searching the threads but could not locate anything.

    The headphone jack on my Sony Vaio PCG-71211M is only transmitting sound through one channel. I have tried searching through the internet but I can't find any solution to changing the microphone in jack to a headphone out jack.

    There must be a way to do this through the bios?

    I would really appreciate any help you can provide.

    Many thanks
     
    Speath, Dec 15, 2010
    #1
  2. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

    Reputations:
    6,415
    Messages:
    5,296
    Likes Received:
    552
    Trophy Points:
    281
    HD Audio chipsets like the one in the Z are technically capable of doing just that. You'd have to change the driver configuration, and even then it'd probably only be line out, lacking the power to push headphones from that jack.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Dec 15, 2010
    #2
  3. Speath

    Speath Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Sony wanted £60 just to look at the problem.

    So, being a dj anyways, I just went out an bought a Native Instruments Audio 2Soundcard :D

    Problem solved.

    Cheers anyways
     
    Speath, Dec 16, 2010
    #3