Laptop Sound

kanky

Hey Folks,

Bit of a strange problem. I have a HP DV6000 laptop.

I recently got a amp for a large set of pub/club speakers. Anyways, I plugged in the 3.5mm jack from the laptop into the amp. All was fine initially. After some changing between different mp3 players etc listening to different songs, I plugged the jack back into the earphone socket on the laptop.

At this point I noticed something was wrong. The sound was very low, I couldn't figure it out to begin with. But subsquesntly found out that i could only hear sound through the right channel. What ever I tried I couldn't get the sound back to both channels.

I tried:
Going fromn stereo balance to full left and full right, kept the sound in right only.
Plugging ear phones into the second 3.5mm jack on the laptop, still in right only. Even though the amp was never connected to this.
I formatted the laptop thinking it was something more serious.

I cant for the life of me figure this out, only other thing it could be is a break in some connection in the laptop outputs itself.

This only happens with the earphone jack, the built in speakers work properly.

Any body have any ideas?

Cheers.

JonathanAnon

Try this:
On the system tray, right click on the speaker icon. Open playback devices. Double click Speakers and Dual Headphones. Open the enhancements tab. And make sure that "Disable all enhancements" is clicked.

With a lot of those laptops it is soooo easy to hit off a button and turn on/off something you dont want, and it takes a lifetime to reverse the damned thing.

kanky

Thanks.

Tried that, still no joy. I would imagine its a hardware issue as a fresh install of Win 7 should have sorted any software issues....shouldn't it?

Where could I get it fixed? Or would an PCMCIA card be a better option?

JonathanAnon

You could buy a blue tooth headset, or get a USB sound card.... PCMCIA sound would also be an option...

Is the laptop out of warranty?

somebody on the HP forum seems to have a similar issue
DV6000 audio problem

kanky

I bought the laptop from PC World 11 months ago.

It should still be under warranty, right?

ricman

you have 2 years gaurantee when you buy any electrical item,pc,tv etc.or TRY system restore,or recovery manager,
see here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00809678&product=18703#
i think you can use start,programs, recovery manager to reinstall the windows os,to its original state.if you use system restore or ,recovery ,you,ll lose all,mp3s.data, etc you created AFTER ,the restore point date,
or system recovery,deletes all data , and reinstall windows os.ie goes back to original state.
see here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00809678&product=18703#InstallDriversApplications
choose hardware driver reinstallation, reinstall sound drivers, or just reinstall all drivers,
reinstall drivers,means you will lose NO DATA .

mordeith

Are you saying that the sound is from one speaker only when you connect to the PA system or is the same when you just use headphones straight from the laptop?

ricman

see here http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-PC-Sound-and-Audio/DV-6000-Speaker-Problem-Solved/td-p/28627

see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm59BNQVRVg&feature=related
see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_tXtr3LM0&feature=related

ricman

my friend has dv6000 laptop ,he has no sound from speakers, just sound from the headphone socket.