Vista - Sound doesn't switch from speakers to headphones

Hello,

I'm having an incredibly irritating problem with my sound in Vista Enterprise x64, I'm hoping someone can help. I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio card, and I have the latest drivers installed.

The problem is that when I'm listening to music or playing a game, the sound works just fine on my speakers. But if I plug in my headphones to the front port, the sound continues to come out of my speakers, and not my headphones. The only way to get the sound to come out of my headphones and not the speakers is to re-launch the application that is producing sound. The same is true vice-versa (going from headphones back to speakers).

I have set my default output device to be the headphones and have played around with every setting in the Sound Blaster and Vista Sound control panels I can find - nothing seems to work.

I have read through other forums with similar issues, but they're all either a different issue (i.e. they get sound out of the speakers and the headphones - I only get it out of one, and not the right one), or the threads seem to have dropped off unsolved.

Anyone have a fix for this or at least experiencing the same issue? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

No one has any thoughts on this?

I do - your speakers were set as default - plug in the headphones, then make them the default - then when you unplug the headphones, the speakers should take over, and the next time you plug in the headphones they should *automatically* become the default again.

Can headphones be inserted on the rear panel just like it was possible in XP and be detected as headphones?

If you have Realtek drivers then you can change the way the jacks are and whether they monitor for input or not. But I beleieve it is limited (I am not 100% sure as I don't use jack sensing at all).

How can we do this????

I know in XP is a lot easier... I can't understand why they can't be like XP in that regards.

my speakers work fine without the default device thing, default devices shouldnt detect a headset at all, but realtek drivers detect it in the CP. heres a few pictures with jack sensoring in play.

Yes but this is specifically for the front panel... I wish I could do this for the REAR panel as you could in win XP.

you can as long as jack detection is enabled.

It is enabled... but it doesn't show up the pop up as in the front panel you show there... I have been trying to do this for over a year if you watch this post.