Flamecaller Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 So I got a new computer. It has Vista. I used my old computer's speakers on my new computer...Because I could. They work great. Except for one thing... Whenever I play music/watch a video on youtube or do anything else that involves sound that ISN'T playing a video game, I get a pop-up bubble in the corner that says "A jack has been plugged in" and then it switches to "A jack has been unplugged" back and forth endlessly. When I clicked the Realtek Audio Manager to see what was up, one of the jacks, which nothing has ever been up into or taken out of, has been flashing, causing the little alerts. I have tried everything to get it to stop. I have even system restored (resulting in me having to re-dl WoW again...) to no avail. The funny thing is, it just started doing this today...It hasn't been doing it for the last week. It doesn't really effect anything, it's just annoying and pissing me off to no end. Dunno' how to explain it any better, and I'm highly doubting a picture is going to help at all...I'd really like to know how to make the bubble alerts stop at least, because thats the only annoying thing. They're popping up completely randomly...Sometimes every 3-5 seconds, sometimes ever 30. It's infuriating. So, if anyone knows whats up, or if anyone just knows how to turn off those stupid bubble alerts (if you can), that'd be super... "If I did break into a hotel room to steal my trophies, this is how it happened." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das1330 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 is it a desktop? if you REALLY wanted to get rid of them, you could cut the wire from the motherboard to the port, that would make the port useless though. Sounds like a hardware problem to me though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamecaller Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 Yes, it's a desktop, and no, that doesn't seem like a viable fix... I really see no reason why this port should be blinking on and off saying it's been plugged in/unplugged when absolutely nothing is happening to it. It only does this when my computer is playing sounds, too. Windows sounds, music, whatever. Edit: And yes, I checked the drivers. No updates. "If I did break into a hotel room to steal my trophies, this is how it happened." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClareJonsson Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 It sounds more like the realtek manager is getting its knickers in a twist and not really Vista mucking up. Usually you can turn off the auto detection for jack ports, try looking in the settings for this option in the Realtek manager. This may also be a bug in the Realtek software, try downloading the latest driver and manager. [Assist-X] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 I'l put it this way: Realtek really sucks. Buy some usb speakers and you can forget al about it. I use usb headphones with Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamecaller Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 I fixed it last night...Or so I thought. I disabled a Realtek device that seemed to be trying to replace itself with my speakers over and voer again, even though there was no device...Default software lameness ftw? :roll: Anyways, woke up today and it was doing it again...So I ditched that Realtek crap. Friggin' uninstalled it. Screw it, if it's pissing me off, it's gone. :P "If I did break into a hotel room to steal my trophies, this is how it happened." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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