Got my new Defiance III laptop yesterday, installed all windows 10 updates and everything appeared to be working ok. LOVELY laptop.
Had some weird freezes while installing software like VLC player, Steam and Bluestacks android emmulator where the laptop just froze and not even the mouse would work.
where I needed to hold the power button to force it to shutdown and restart cant figure out why this would happen on a brand new laptop.
One annoying problem I'm having is Plugging in a set of headphones.
When I went to plug in my headphones into the audio socket, Realtek HD audio manager detects I've plugged in the headphones, the speakers go silent you can see the the sound level go up and down under the levels menu but no sound comes out of the headphones.
I've googled this issue to death and went through all of the suggestions other webpages have mentioned.
Removing the driver, trying a generic drive, reinstalling, going through trouble shooting,setting default devices arseing with every sound setting and checking everything is detected etc etc etc.
Nothing has worked so far.
The Realtek audio manger only shows the speakers, digital out, microphone tabs. There is no separate Headphone tab like you might see on a desk top set up.
The visual representation of the socks on the right hand side of the audio manager shows headphones in text when hovering over the picture of the jack hole. (its colored black in the software not green which is different to my desktop setup)
One temporary solution that I've found that works is if I plug in my Headphones and then shut down the Laptop and restart it so it reboots while the headphones are physically plugged in I get sound through the headphones and I can happily plug out the headphones and plug them back in again and everything works as expected.
If I close the screen and the laptop goes into powersave mode or hybernates etc and say come back 20mins later and plug back in the headphones the problem comes back.Where I'f I remove the head phones or plug them back in I get no sound through the headphones.
Anyone have this issue?
Sometimes when I reboot it behaves like normal but leave the laptop powered off for a while and repower it on and the issues will either go away or comeback
depending on how the damn thing is feeling at the time.
one other weird observation is even I'f I turn the volume to 100% on either the speakers or the headphones when working the output level is not all that loud.
if I plug my headphones into my phone or tablet and set the volume to 100% its a heck of a lot louder.
~B
Had some weird freezes while installing software like VLC player, Steam and Bluestacks android emmulator where the laptop just froze and not even the mouse would work.
where I needed to hold the power button to force it to shutdown and restart cant figure out why this would happen on a brand new laptop.
One annoying problem I'm having is Plugging in a set of headphones.
When I went to plug in my headphones into the audio socket, Realtek HD audio manager detects I've plugged in the headphones, the speakers go silent you can see the the sound level go up and down under the levels menu but no sound comes out of the headphones.
I've googled this issue to death and went through all of the suggestions other webpages have mentioned.
Removing the driver, trying a generic drive, reinstalling, going through trouble shooting,setting default devices arseing with every sound setting and checking everything is detected etc etc etc.
Nothing has worked so far.
The Realtek audio manger only shows the speakers, digital out, microphone tabs. There is no separate Headphone tab like you might see on a desk top set up.
The visual representation of the socks on the right hand side of the audio manager shows headphones in text when hovering over the picture of the jack hole. (its colored black in the software not green which is different to my desktop setup)
One temporary solution that I've found that works is if I plug in my Headphones and then shut down the Laptop and restart it so it reboots while the headphones are physically plugged in I get sound through the headphones and I can happily plug out the headphones and plug them back in again and everything works as expected.
If I close the screen and the laptop goes into powersave mode or hybernates etc and say come back 20mins later and plug back in the headphones the problem comes back.Where I'f I remove the head phones or plug them back in I get no sound through the headphones.
Anyone have this issue?
Sometimes when I reboot it behaves like normal but leave the laptop powered off for a while and repower it on and the issues will either go away or comeback
depending on how the damn thing is feeling at the time.
one other weird observation is even I'f I turn the volume to 100% on either the speakers or the headphones when working the output level is not all that loud.
if I plug my headphones into my phone or tablet and set the volume to 100% its a heck of a lot louder.
~B
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