Win - headphones not plugged in - they Are & work in Linux

Dark Rider

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Windows is telling me my headphones are not plugged in BUT they ARE and I can use them with my wife's Windows 7 or my dual booted Linux Zorin 9 (Ubuntu 14.04) Both headphones and microphone do work in Linux so i know my sound card hardware does work and the headphones and microphone jack do work - just not working in Windows. ( in fact to solve another problem just day before yesterday, I reinstalled the sound drivers and it all worked then - dont know what could have happened to cause them to stop)

I have tried to configure my sound input and output 20 different ways till Sunday. I tried a restore point where I knew the headphones and mic used to work, I tried reinstalling and updating the drivers for the IDT sound card - everything short of a repair Install from the Windows 8 dvd - That I haven't tried but was hoping to avoid that. It shouldn't matter anyway because one of the options I tried above Should have worked but didn't.

Any ideas? Thanks.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 64 bit
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavillion G7-2251dx
    CPU
    AMD A-8 4500M
    Memory
    8 Gigabytes DDR3 sdram
    Graphics Card(s)
    Discrete ATI Radeon HD 7640G with 2 Gigs
    Sound Card
    IDT Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17.3
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900
    Hard Drives
    500 gig
    Internet Speed
    3.5 mb/sec
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