Help, Audio stopped working

[MrBobskins]

Hi Everyone,

I am stumped. I just spent the last 2 hours trying to work out why my audio has completely stopped working. Just the other day my audio had been working fine but after I tested a friends GPU on my PC it has been refusing to work (the graphics card didnt work but my computer runs fine and has no damage) . I run an i5 7500 with a gtx 1060 and it has never had any issues. I have checked that my speakers work, reinstalled and tried different audio drivers, and I have made sure that the 'realtech high definition audio' is my default device. But the thing is, the computer detects that there is an aux cord in the green port (as there is actually a cord in it) but it also detects something in the black and in the optical port (even though there is nothing in there and i have cleaned it out) (refer to the picture also).

My bluetooth also does not want to conect to my earphones either which is incredibly annoying. 

 

Why is all this occuring and how do i fix it? 

 

Thankyou everyone

[Psittac]

Audio is one of the weakest points of windows, not sure if mac is any better.  Did you right click the speaker in the icon tray and choose open sound settings?  Rather than the high level realtek program?

 

My friend is blind and sometimes his audio goes wacky which in turn removes his entire interface, I'd say a good portion of my fixes to his system are audio output related.

[Cyracus]

My htpc gpu fan died and the sound stopped working, couldn't figure out the problem. Went to the mobo manufacturers website and when I got to the driver page suddenly everything started working fine... All I can recommend in light of computers clearly becoming self aware is that this is the last chance to ingratiate yourself to our soon to be robot overlords

[MrBobskins]

50 minutes ago, Psittac said:

Audio is one of the weakest points of windows, not sure if mac is any better.  Did you right click the speaker in the icon tray and choose open sound settings?  Rather than the high level realtek program?

 

My friend is blind and sometimes his audio goes wacky which in turn removes his entire interface, I'd say a good portion of my fixes to his system are audio output related.

Here is the sound settings, i am pretty sure thats all normal (and the second output is the front aux port i think).