Changing default sound settings for headphones

[Hawks]

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?)

[Solartide]

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.

[Hawks]

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.

[Hobgoblinpie]

Do your speakers have an output to headphones?

[Hawks]

No, unfortunately.

[Solartide]

Is the jack plugged into the motherboard?

[Hawks]

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