An almost paradoxical audio problem

[Wolvenreign]

So, I'm having a really, really strange problem with my PC's audio. Normally, I'd know how to fix this, since I got my A+ certs not too long ago, but the nature of the problem is just so...odd.

Let me explain. I use two main partitions, one with Windows 7 and the other with Ubuntu 12.10. In Windows, there's an audio problem where I have to push my speakers into the jack and continue to apply pressure to it before any sound plays. Sounds like a hardware problem, right? Something to do with the jacks? Well, I'd think so too, but...the problem doesn't exist on my Ubuntu side.

I never have to push the jack in on Ubuntu. The audio just plays. It's so thoroughly bizarre!

Anyone else experience this? I'm wondering just what's going on, myself.

 

[calmwaters]

Hmmm; I remember when my headphones started cutting out sound: I had to shift the plug around and apply pressure pretty much most of the time. I got a new pair of headphones, though, and that seemed to fix it.

 

[Wolvenreign]

Yes, but this particular problem is just so utterly strange. It SHOULD be a hardware problem, except that it works with a different software (Ubuntu).

 

[trumpet-205]

A driver problem? What onboard sound is that?

 

[reprep]

just try a different set of speakers, or simply a headphone.

 

[FAST6191]

Does Ubuntu have detection these days "something just got inserted into the blue jack, what was it?"? You should be able to disable it in Windows too.

 

[Wolvenreign]

I keep reinstalling the drivers, but to no avail.

The onboard sound is for the MSI 790GX-G65.

I have also tried other speakers and headphones, as well as two different jacks. In the other jack, sound doesn't come on at all (though it does for Ubuntu).

Edit: I am unclear as to your meaning, Sensei Fast. Do you mean to say that Plug and Play is at fault here?

 

[calmwaters]

Did you try going into the Playback Devices options and setting the default listening device to your headphones? I hope Windows is reading it as a sound device.

 

[trumpet-205]

Realtek ALC889. You download audio driver from Realtek, not MSI correct?

 

[Walker D]

Maybe a good fix would be to call a psychic medium to take a look on that pc...

 

[FAST6191]

Not so much plug and play but the autodetection, my guess was detection might be being done by a spring/end of the socket thing rather than a resistance test or something. By holding it in you are making the test work where ubuntu might not have such functionality and just pipe things directly into it.
I only have the soundmax option selected in my BIOS right now but it is pretty similar for others and somewhere in the options will be an autodetect switch.

 

[Wolvenreign]

....Aaaaaand Trumpet saves me for the second time this week. Yep, I had forgotten to install the manufacturer's drivers. I guess it's because the Microsoft drivers were working so well for all that time. Thanks, Trumpet!

Thanks to you, too, Great Sensei Fast. I think I understand the nature of the problem more now.

I have forsaken my training! Now I must repent by fixing 300 computers before dawn!