Asus P9X79 RealTek Audio Speaker “Not plugged in”

[Tanquen]

It is listed in the playback devices and used to work fine but after installing a new 290x it just says “Not plugged in” with a red arrow. It’s like whatever way it detects that you have an audio cable (speakers) plugged in is broken. I know it’s still working though. I can change the front panel mic and headset ports to AC97 from HD and I can then get sound out of only that headphone port but it won’t even try the back panel and I don’t see a way to force it to. Like it just thinks that nothing is plugged in so it disables it. I tried putting the 7970 back in and did a system restore but no luck. I even have a Windows 8 test OS that I had used in the past and it can’t see the speakers plugged in either. So I think something got fried. Not sure how though, I’m always really carful and everything was turned off.

For now I’m using the toslink port as it is still working and my Logitech speakers happen to have a digital input but it’s (I think) stereo only.

 

[0isin]

I have a similar problem with a new build (Asus Sabertooth X79.) I can see the volume bars going up and down when I click "test" audio but there's no sound coming out of the audio jack. There is sound however, going to my monitor through the AMD R9 290 graphics card. I am wondering if the graphics card is somehow hijacking the output.

The reason this is still a problem is that GPU-Z shows the gfx card at 10% load just playing an MP3. It seems like a waste and will only increase its temperature. I'd rather use the onboard sound. Hopefully a solution will be posted soon.

jvan posted a similar problem with an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard here:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1960920/asus-sabertooth-x79-sound-anymore.html

After reading your post, it would appear I may be correct. It is in fact the AMD hardware/software which is hijacking the audio output.

 

[gwadj]

I have a similar problem with a new build (Asus Sabertooth X79.) I can see the volume bars going up and down when I click "test" audio but there's no sound coming out of the audio jack. There is sound however, going to my monitor through the AMD R9 290 graphics card. I am wondering if the graphics card is somehow hijacking the output.

The reason this is still a problem is that GPU-Z shows the gfx card at 10% load just playing an MP3. It seems like a waste and will only increase its temperature. I'd rather use the onboard sound. Hopefully a solution will be posted soon.

jvan posted a similar problem with an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard here:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1960920/asus-sabertooth-x79-sound-anymore.html

After reading your post, it would appear I may be correct. It is in fact the AMD hardware/software which is hijacking the audio output.

I have also a similar problem. Motherboard Asus Crosshair-V Formula-Z (amd) and r9 290 MSI card. After installing 290, speakers went to not plugged in state and I have tried to uninstall and reinstall drivers for graphics and audio, also reinstalled win 8.1. Didn't help. I think I will buy soundcard and disable audio from mobo..

 

[Tanquen]

I had to send it in and they installed a new audio ports riser on it.