JosephBAdams
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I'm having a very, very odd problem with Vista Home Premium 64 Bit. It's simple to explain the problem, but very bizarre to understand why it's happening:
Suppose that I'm happily sitting at the computer listening to sound through my headphones--movie, game, iTunes, whatever. And suppose I decide to unplug the headphones from the back of my computer (motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L) and plug in a set of speakers.
When I plug in the speakers, I have no sound. Not only does the sound fail to emerge from my speakers, but the CPU goes to 100% and Windows is almost totally frozen (extremely sluggish) until I use Task Manager to close any and all programs that had been producing sound before I swapped the headphones-for-speakers in my audio jack. Once I close those programs and let Windows "calm down" for a minute or two, I can load up the same programs and, voila, I have sound in the speakers. Same thing happens if I go from speakers to headphones.
Can someone explain (1) what's causing this and (2) whether there's a way for me to get my computer to stop doing it?
If it's a motherboard issue, someone please move the thread over there. I just assume it's Windows causing it, and that the problem wouldn't occur if I had this same mobo with Windows XP.
Suppose that I'm happily sitting at the computer listening to sound through my headphones--movie, game, iTunes, whatever. And suppose I decide to unplug the headphones from the back of my computer (motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L) and plug in a set of speakers.
When I plug in the speakers, I have no sound. Not only does the sound fail to emerge from my speakers, but the CPU goes to 100% and Windows is almost totally frozen (extremely sluggish) until I use Task Manager to close any and all programs that had been producing sound before I swapped the headphones-for-speakers in my audio jack. Once I close those programs and let Windows "calm down" for a minute or two, I can load up the same programs and, voila, I have sound in the speakers. Same thing happens if I go from speakers to headphones.
Can someone explain (1) what's causing this and (2) whether there's a way for me to get my computer to stop doing it?
If it's a motherboard issue, someone please move the thread over there. I just assume it's Windows causing it, and that the problem wouldn't occur if I had this same mobo with Windows XP.
