I think my laptop is really weird. I need earphones or headphones to get sound from it. Every time I remove my earphones, no sound comes out of the laptop except when I connect speakers, which is really troublesome since it's a PORTABLE COMPUTER. I don't want to carry a pair of speakers everywhere I go with my laptop, but I don't want to keep having to use earphones to get sound. I would like to share videos, movies, games and music with my friends too, and I can't do that if they can't hear anything, there being one pair of earphones and all. How do I get sound? :confused:

What's the make and model # of the laptop?

The first thing I would try is to uninstall and reinstall the driver for the sound card. Most times that will take care of it.