I want to be able to plug my headphones into the front jack of my computer and have sound come out of them. Currently, nothing happens if I do that because the rear jack is the default and goes to speakers. I can't figure out how to do this on Windows 2000 (it only took me like five minutes to figure it out on 7) so I figured somebody'd know how to do it here.

 

I think the front 3.5mm jack is attached/on the CD drive in the front, I'm not sure though- but it's the CD drive that came with the computer, I believe. (as in it's a piece of another peripheral?)

I'm assuming the front jack is on the computer case itself. If so, along the inside of the case there should be a cable coming from the jack. Is this cable plugged into the motherboard?

 

Besides that, control panel -> sounds + multimedia -> audio tab ->preferred playback device.

 

2000 isn't that old, my servers are all still running linux and server 2000.

Preferred playback device gives me two options, neither of which produce sound from headphones plugged into the front. And I can't access 'Advanced' because I don't have admin rights.

Do your speakers have an output to headphones?

No, unfortunately.

Is the jack plugged into the motherboard?

I don't know, and can't easily check...