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by awreiner

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i am trying to help a friend to grt his laptop straighteng out, he has a hp pavilion v6116 laptop he had to reformat his hard drive a while back and reloaded xp with sp2 he said it was working fine, but his speakers quit working but he could plug a headset in and hear it fine, could you help me with this

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by older mycroft

The headphone socket is a 'Make or Break' switch.

When there is NO HEADPHONES plugged in, the switch is in the MAKE position.
When the ARE HEADPHONES plugged in, the switch is in the BREAK position.

It BREAKs the contact between the sound chip and the speakers, redirecting the sound signals to the headphones,

Try rapidly inserting/extracting the headphone jack a number of times, to see if the switch will reset itself.

If that doesn't repair it, you'll have to have another headphone socket fitted which isn't too easy since it'll involve dismantling the laptop chassis.

by oh smeg

Would be the Headphone Jack broken or at the very least stuck on the Open Position to only supply a signal to the Headphones. This is a common occurrence with this type of Jack

But it could be that the Lead to the Speakers in the NB Itself have broken or come off the M'Board. This is likely if the owner didn't use Headphones or plug anything into the Headphones Jack prior to this occurring.

Col

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