I have a Rosewill Blackhawk case with a front and rear set of jacks for audio and a mic. I have been trying to get my headset to work for the past 30 minutes to an hour, but to no avail. I'll just walk you through everything that I've done up to this point.
My 2 speakers started out plugged in the rear straight to the mobo. I first started out plugging in my headset jacks in the front. One problem with these particular jacks is they don't quite want to fit snug in the front, so the the pc is often confused whether or not anything is plugged in at all. All that is beside the point though so you can just ignore that little tidbit. The point is, during the times the pc recognized I had a device plugged in, I couldn't get audio to feed through the headset. I have Turtle Beach X11 btw. It was at this moment that I figured I either had a faulty pair of front jacks on my case, a bad mobo header connection, the wrong drivers, or a faulty headset. All four of these assumptions seemed to fly out the window with what happened next...
I unplugged my speakers from the rear and plugged my headset, audio and mic, into there instead. They fit just fine. Not only that, but I could hear audio as well. Happy days! But wait! I then plugged in my speakers to the front thinking all is well, but now there is no audio going through my headset. It is being fed through the speakers again. This tells me that my front jacks are all right, I do have the right drivers, the front is connected to the mobo, and my mic isn't faulty. The problem is that I can't tell my computer to ignore the speakers when I want it to so that I can hear audio through the headset. I have tested this playing around with the Skype audio settings. Am I missing something completely obvious here? I have Speakers and Realtek HD Audio in my playback devices. I tried setting Realtek to default when my mic was plugged into the frront (and back for that matter), but it only plays audio if I don't have my speakers plugged into the case. I would really love to be able to have both plugged in at once without them interfering like how my previous Dell was set up, but this is blowing my mind.
My 2 speakers started out plugged in the rear straight to the mobo. I first started out plugging in my headset jacks in the front. One problem with these particular jacks is they don't quite want to fit snug in the front, so the the pc is often confused whether or not anything is plugged in at all. All that is beside the point though so you can just ignore that little tidbit. The point is, during the times the pc recognized I had a device plugged in, I couldn't get audio to feed through the headset. I have Turtle Beach X11 btw. It was at this moment that I figured I either had a faulty pair of front jacks on my case, a bad mobo header connection, the wrong drivers, or a faulty headset. All four of these assumptions seemed to fly out the window with what happened next...
I unplugged my speakers from the rear and plugged my headset, audio and mic, into there instead. They fit just fine. Not only that, but I could hear audio as well. Happy days! But wait! I then plugged in my speakers to the front thinking all is well, but now there is no audio going through my headset. It is being fed through the speakers again. This tells me that my front jacks are all right, I do have the right drivers, the front is connected to the mobo, and my mic isn't faulty. The problem is that I can't tell my computer to ignore the speakers when I want it to so that I can hear audio through the headset. I have tested this playing around with the Skype audio settings. Am I missing something completely obvious here? I have Speakers and Realtek HD Audio in my playback devices. I tried setting Realtek to default when my mic was plugged into the frront (and back for that matter), but it only plays audio if I don't have my speakers plugged into the case. I would really love to be able to have both plugged in at once without them interfering like how my previous Dell was set up, but this is blowing my mind.
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