I have an HP laptop. The speaker has been working with no problem for 2 years. Suddenly today, the speaker stopped working. The sound card is OK because I can hear sound through my headphone. Did some quick research and read something about my laptop not being able to not properly sense the headphone jack plugged in or out... Has anyone of you experienced or fixed this problem? Any help is appreciated.

Buckykatt72

I have an HP dv9000 and am having the same issue now. Just noticed it yesterday since the thing has been on mute or been used with headphones for awhile now. But I wanted to listen to music and no sound come from the internal speakers, just headphones.

mock_turtle

aliasmiller i think it is possible to fix the issue through a software. the mechanism does not work quiet like verman84 explained. i am using ubuntu and dv6000 for aboout two years. i remember i once stumbled an applet that lets the user to control volumes for speaker and headjack independentlyu. the mechanical switch robertva mentioned up should be something that tells kernel the headphone is plugged or unpugged, not simply route the electricity flowing through speaker. because if that was the case it would be impossible for the program i used to control them seperately. i am looking for the program i used. but unfortunately it must be for linux only. theoretically there exists a software solution for windows but i dont know how yet. i will write if i find.

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booknoy2001

i had the same problem, just try some headphone's you used in your laptop(seems theres a switch inside the headphone jack and noticed that headphone jacks differ in size).... i just did it and the speaker works again...thank you guys !!!

bizi411

Verman84 is right. I had the same problem on my hp dv6000 for a while. Headphones would work just fine but the built-in speakers stopped working. At first i thought there was no way it was a sound card problem b/c if it was the sound card, neither the headphones or internal speakers would work... but i updated and reinstalled drivers anyway. no luck. Then i noticed the speakers would sometimes work for a second when i removed the headphone jack. I then knew it was a short in the jack connection or just a bad connector in the jack. Sooo, I just plugged in the headphone jack a bunch of times and after about 20 seconds the speakers were working just fine and i haven't had a problem since! just jam in the headset jack a bunch of times to get the contacts loose again. If this doesn't do the trick you may have to do a little surgery and clean up the contacts by taking the computer apart. (only if you know what you're doing, of course) . But the problem is most definitely physical with the metal contacts and not a driver, soundcard, or antivirus software conflict problem. To my knowledge, sound cards are not generally programmed to or capable of detecting when headphones have entered the path of wires leading to the speakers.
Sounds crazy but it worked for me.
hope this helps

DCA

Hi, guys!

I have an HP pav 6000 and I'm having the same problem. The difference is that I had never used my headphones before until I decided to check and see if they would work. When I first noticed a problem, I had a CD in. It just stopped playing. I was busy and didn't really check at that time to see what the problem was. I was cleaning my desk and dusted the computer with a cloth. I thought maybe I had just brushed up against something and turned it off, but that doesn't seem to be the problem.

I've tried blowing canned air in and plugging and unplugging. I have also gone through everything in the troubleshooting section and everything reports as it should be. I updated the driver. Any other suggestions?

My trying to open this thing up would be disasterous. thanks in advance.

bizi411

if you bought it under a year ago, just have HP fix. They are usually really good with shipping and everything. otherwise, you're screwed. jk. I don't know what else to tell ya.

DCA

Unfortunately, it's two years old.

hphphphelpme

Hi i have the same problem to but my is the right speaker's dosent work evertything is fine but not my right speaker i think i know why?
thte dual proccesor is near the built-in speaker and it warm's up and burn the speaker and the power buttons but mine didint burn the power button and my ac power work thank's by the way calll hp you can find the number in hp official website