Malfunctioning headphone jack

[Marley]

I have an Asus x570-f motherboard, and use the audio ports on the back of the motherboard. I have some cheap speakers hooked up to it, and recently the max volume on the speakers was extremely quiet. The sound was set to max, audio inside of the windows volume mixer was set to max for everything, and the physical speaker volume was also on max. Plugging the speakers into the front audio jack has everything at a normal volume, and when plugging my Sony Xm4s into the back audio port it is quiet while the front is loud. This seemed to happen all of a sudden. I have updated my bios and windows to the newest revisions. Would there be any way to fix this without returning the motherboard or getting a replacement? 

 

Thanks,

[mariushm]

You could just plug the speakers/ headphones in another jack in the back.  

 

The sound card will automatically detect they're speakers  on headphones and work just fine.

If it's not auto, you can manually configure any jack from the software that comes with the sound card.

 

[artuc]

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Also another possible workaround could be to get a PCI bracket with audio ports (a pretty obscure part) and do without your front panel or just use your front panel for now.

[Marley]

No clue what just happened. I restarted my pc and when it was trying to boot it just stayed on a black screen infinitely. I reseated the ram and then got stuck in a boot loop. It worked in safe mode so I disabled DOCP and then it was back to normal. I tried reapplying docp and the system worked perfectly. After that the speakers were at a normal volume. Sorry to go off topic but I thought it was quite strange.