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2nd headphone jack on dell inspiron 1420 will not work

Ok, i have a dell inspiron 1420 and my speakers dont work but i know why, its because on the circuit board some wire is not connected to the other and i dont feel like taking the laptop apart. but here is the real problem i was fine with my first headphone jack but the the little black part to hold in the headphone fell out. it was still working just the ive used it like that for a while and now that wont work so then i tried the second headphone jack and it wont work!!! please help

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The Solutions that will mostly work :

1) Go to sleep mode - wake up ! - tada !! the headphone jack will work again .. I know it sounds crazy.. i have the same model and had the same problem.. usually restarting solves any problem, but this time even a restart did not worked while putting the laptop on standby(sleep) mode and waking it up worked !!

2) If the above does not work, uninstall the sound drivers from device manager - restart the computer - then let windows detect appropriate drivers by itself. Sometimes the Sigmatel drivers(which are provided by dell) do not work as well as windows vista's HD sound drivers. May solve the issue... Do not worry doing this, in the worst scenario you can always download and reinstall the dell drivers from dell support page.

Please update on [email protected] if the problem gets solved..

  • Preston Panda
    Preston Panda Jan 01, 2014

    how about for windows 8? i know its claimed to be incompatible but i have the first port working using the A06 version of the driver.. have no clue what to do about the second port

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