Only one speaker working

Hello all,

I am using winxp professional, 1 GB Ram and ASRock Wolfdale 1333-D667 R 2.0 motherboard with onboard sound card and Realtek high defination audio driver R 2.60.

my problem is sound comes only from left speaker but not from Right speaker. I have checked all the PC volume setting . They are correct. I also updated latest Realtek sound driver. but problem is still there.

My Speakers are working fine on other pc . I also tried using headphone but same result. only lest speaker is working for headphone too.

Please please some one help me.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Vinny

 

Could be the jack, try a pci soundcard, if you have one. Have to disable onboard sound in bios if you use a pci soundcard.

 

thanx Captianchaoz for answer

do you mean i need to buy a new external sound card ?

 

Try another plug? Sound cards have 3 plugs. Have it plugged into the right port? Thinking you do. Seem to remember. One is speakers only, one is speakers and a mike, forget what the other one is, but thinking it's mike only.

 

The green plug should be your line out to the speakers/headphones.
You might try uninstalling and reinstalling your sound card drivers:
Start>rt click on My Computer or Computer>Properties>Hardware tab>Device Manager.
Look under Sound Video and Game Controllers.
Look for your Audio device (maybe Realtek).
Rt click on it, then click Properties then under Driver tab click on Uninstall.
Then reboot.

I take it that when you say you have checked all the PC volume settings, that includes making sure that the two speaker volumes are both up.

 

Dear locodave and GCWesq,

Green plug is installed in right place and I have also unistall and installed Realtek high defination audio driver R 2.60 but problem is still there. :cry

Please help me rolleyes

 

Look in the device manager to see if any ! is in the drop down Sound,video and game controllers tab.

 

It's starting to look like it might be a hardware issue. Assuming you have a PC (which is how you have referred to it), and not a laptop, can you beg, borrow or st... (maybe not) a sound card and put it in to try. You would plug it into a PCI slot in the motherboard inside your computer case, then plug your jacks into the plugs at the back. If it doesn't work at all, go to your BIOS and disable onboard sound, as recommended by Captianchaoz., then try again.
If that works, buying a sound card would presumably fix the problem. If it doesn't work, we're back to the drawing board. :cry
After testing, you can return the sound card to wherever you got it. The only permanaent change you would have made is that you would have to have removed one of the covers from the back of your computer (to get the card in).

 

Download and install VLC media player.

http://majorgeeks.com/VLC_media_player_d4674.html

Play any video on your computer,while its playing click the audio tab at the top,click channels then reverse stereo.

This will play everything from the left speaker through the right speaker.If nothing plays it could definitely point toward a hardware failure,most likely as has been said something wrong with the audio jack if you hear audio then your hardware is fine.

Have you tried wiggling your audio or speaker plug while they're connected?Do you get anything from the right speaker,even static?

 

Try plugging in a set of headphones. if you only get audio through one ear the jack is probably dead. What audio are you playing and what app are you using to play it though?

Typically the left channel is used if you have a mono audio source rather than stereo. but most pcs will pick up that it is mono and replicate the sound in the right channel

 

Oh yeah... oops:-o

On that basis I would probably agree with hardware fault on motherboard/jack