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I have two sets of stereo speakers. Speakers on my desk and a pair of headphones.
The speakers are connected to a port on the back and the headphones are connected to a USB port on the front. (indicating this is a software issue)
Both devices only pick up the right channel. It's like windows is only playing mono sound and I can't figure out why.
Here is my advanced audio tab, if this means anything to you:
No options there for mono or stereo as indicated in this post
I don't think it's the driver. I didn't have any special drivers installed before, but once the problem started to really bother me I tried installing the latest version of the Realtek Audio Driver and it didn't fix it. I can't find any options to change it in the Realtek Audio Manager either.
Update: if I try to reconfigure the speakers and I select the output type as Stereo and then try to test it, I again get no sound when it's supposed to be playing through the left speaker and sound from both speakers when it's only supposed to be the right one.
Mark Kramer
Posted 2014-02-18T03:52:32.547
Reputation: 285
If you unplug the headphones does it play correctly? Have you tested these on a different unit hence a bad speaker plug or it's malfunctioning. Have you tested only the headphones and not the speakers to see if it fixed the problem and isolates the problem with hardware/software. – Sickest – 2014-02-18T03:58:39.270
As stated in the quesiton I'm almost certain it's a software problem, I'm having the same problem on two entirely different devices, both of which were normally operational until recently and the problem persists regardless of which port I plug them into. I have no other computers to test them on. – Mark Kramer – 2014-02-18T04:01:13.067
Speakers, I have Stereo Headphones and 2.1 desktop speakers. (he deleted the comment this comment was an answer to) – Mark Kramer – 2014-02-18T04:05:08.303
can you update your question and show which motherboard you are using and if this recently happened or its always happened – Sickest – 2014-02-18T04:18:04.323
is this section. does it look like this? I got there by doing this: Playback > Select Source > Properties > Levels Tab > Balance>
– Sickest – 2014-02-18T04:20:31.347I'm using the Asus 990FX Sabertooth and no, it wasn't always like this. But I don't know exactly when it changed, it's been going on for a while. And yeah, the balance is set to 100 for both right and left, but changing the left one doesn't do anything. As I said, changing the right one affects both sides. – Mark Kramer – 2014-02-18T04:24:22.353
let us continue this discussion in chat
– Sickest – 2014-02-18T04:25:56.010