Laptop constantly thinks headphones are plugged in

[rmccleave]

My speakers will not work unless I push an earphone jack partially in, I had a look at the setting and I cannot find anything to fix this. When I did look at the driver application for it I saw this picture#

You can see it actually say headphones connected when there is none in it.

Has anyone had this problem before and knoiw how to fix it or if there is a work around?

My computer is the pavilion dv6-3150sa

[VJ_R]

Hi

Try this uninstall the audio drivers reboot the PC go to the link below

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=4314...

download / instaall the Audio driver and the BIOS update.

[rmccleave]

Already tried that! Even took the ribbon out and swapped it to see if it resolved the so called power issue that causes these sort of problems

[Lucky-Joey]

Had the same problem on HP Pavilion dv6.  The IDT Audio Settings Control panel had the same condition that you did, showing that headphones were connected, when in fact they were not.  This is a mechanical problem, when you plug in headphones there is a small spring tab that is pushed up breaking an electrical connection.  When that happens the computer "knows" there is a headphone connected.  When you pull the headphone plug out, this tab should spring back to its original place...if it does not then the computer still thinks headphones are connected.

I tried to insert and remove the headphone plug many times and that did not work.  Thinking there was some friction holding the tab back, I sprayed a small amount of Pam (cooking spray) into the headphone jack.  After inserting and removing the plug a few more times, the problem went away...the IDT Audio Setting Control panel stopped indicating that a headphone was connected and my speakers worked properly.