Question Audio keeps shuffling between speaker & headphone mode

[Andrewlad]

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.

 

[KingLoki]

Try this driver to see if any change.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/e...rid=h05dn&oscode=w732&productcode=vostro-1015

 

[Andrewlad]

Try this driver to see if any change.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/e...rid=h05dn&oscode=w732&productcode=vostro-1015

hi KingLoki thanks for the suggestion.

Actually when I went to the local hardware shop in mid 2023 when I swapped both HDD to SSD, they installed pirated version of W7 Ultimate 64bit, which I had to change after buying a license key.
From what I gathered, they didn't have W7 Home with them, not even pirated copy.
I had W7 Home edition until 2023, came with 32-bit processor.
I am assuming they installed suitable drivers with the OS they had.

So will this driver still work & not cause any issue? As OS may be a mismatch & so is probably installed drivers.

Just some history, if it matters in anyway:
Some time in 2021 or 2022, wifi & bluetooth stopped working, it happened after a conflict with my VPN I suspect, as that was the only new software I had installed in months. So I use wifi reader (USB) for internet, don't use bluetooth anyway.

 

[Ralston18]

History matters.

Unfortunately you may be in a bit of a "perfect storm" situation.

1) Very old laptop and components.
2) An obsolete OS.
3) Pirated software from who knows where...

Even if the current audio problem is resolveable I would not expect the laptop to last much longer.

Back up all important data at least 2 x to locations off of and away from the laptop. Verify that the backups are recoverable and readable.

Start planning for the future.