Hey there! @williamames1976, Welcome to HP forums
I understand that audio issues when headphones are connected with your laptop.
Don't worry I will try to help you out.
Did you make any software or hardware changes on your laptop?
Have you tried checking with a different headphone?
Is the cable securely connected to the headphone port on the laptop?
Please uninstall the audio driver, Synaptics touchpad driver, Wireless drivers and chipset from device manager and install the latest drivers from the links below.
Link to update audio driver.
Link to update chipset driver.
Link to update Synaptics touchpad driver.
Link to update the wireless driver.
Note: Before uninstalling the wireless driver download all the drivers or connect ethernet connection to PC and uninstall the drivers.
Also, please update the BIOS using this link.
Let me know if this works!
Cheers! 🙂
A4Apollo
I am an HP Employee