Question Sound card with separate front headphone output

dstln

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Hello all,

Right now we have a setup that switches between HDMI audio on one monitor and headphone audio via the auto-detecting front port, using integrated audio. Unfortunately, the default drivers have some issues, and the newer Realtek drivers w/ Windows app have seemingly lost the separate front-panel headphone output, meaning that we can't just pull the headphones to switch back to the monitor sound.

Do any of you know of any discrete sound cards (PCI-E) that have this separate front-panel headphone detection output and are able to switch in this matter (on Windows 10)? My older card doesn't seem to be able to, so I'm looking for any assistance to be able to find one to restore this functionality.

Thanks!