Audio ports on PC disabled after using HDMI TV

[Kuzon Embers]

Hi all. I've been having problems with my computer for way too long now and I'm finally putting it in your hands. Here's the situation.

After plugging in my PC to my HDMI TV I realised that the front and back panel audio ports had been disabled (at least I assume that's what happened). After moving back to my regular monitor (using DVI-D) Windows 8 was waiting for HDMI Audio input. I read somewhere that you can't use HDMI audio and analogue audio at the same time (at least when it's a Windows PC). I have no idea how to get my computer to recognise that it is NOT plugged in through HDMI.

Things I've thought could be the problem:
1. New AMD Crimson software driver
2. Motherboard BIOS setting
3. Graphics card waiting for HDMI input
4. Windows disabled regular audio because it wants to use HDMI

I did some digging around but was not able to find anything that could help my situation. There is a thread that exists on tomshardware where a laptop user has a similar issue but I wasn't able to find a solution there.

Please can someone help! It would be nice to listen to game soundtracks without watching it on YouTube.

PC Specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon x4 870k @ 4.4GHz
GPU: Sapphire Nitro AMD Radeon R9 380 2GB
MOBO: Asrock FM2A68M-DG3+
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
HDD: 320GB + 500GB
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro

 

[getochkn]

Go to the control panel, sounds, default playback devices and select the realtek or whatever headphone/speaker option, right click, set as default device.