Question Audio keeps shuffling between speaker & headphone mode

Jan 19, 2025
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Hey guys,

My old Dell vostro 1015, inbuilt speaker went kaput years ago, so I used to use speakers in the past & later started using only headphones. Have been using the laptop since 2011.

Not sure, what happened but since morning, my audio kept breaking, tried searching around a bit for solution & found that in the Devices, the audio keeps shuffling between Speaker & Headphone. I tried updating driver, said its up-to-date. Tried disabling Speaker & only enabled Headphone, still not much of a help.

At times, when I remove the headphone from the jack, it says headphone connected when I put it on, it shows as unplugged.

just for info, I replaced old HDD with SSD & replaced my old RAM slots of 2gb each to 4gb each, the max possible for this Core2Duo processor, in 2023 June thereabouts.

I tried running sfc scannow multiple times, I get different results. Every odd time (1st, 3rd, 5th..) I get "found some issues but unable to fix", every even time (2nd, 4th, 6th,...) get results stating all issues fixed. This result has been happening for more than year r so, hasn't caused any other issues.

I am clueless on what else I can look into, any sort of assistance is appreciated. If sfc result isn't related to my audio issues, no worries about it.