Compaq Armada 110 No sound from Speakers

[Sandi1987]

Sound from laptop speakers not working. Sound works with headphones. How to fix it?

 

[juanrdp]

When you connect a headphone usually the speakers are disabled by default. Maybe the laptop's headphone [strike]connector[/strike] jack is broken and is always detecting the headphones as plugged-in even when they are not?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

What juanrdp says sounds very plausible.

On the inside the headphones jack is a spring-metal "circuit breaker" which effectively disconnects the laptop speakers when a jack-plug is inserted, when you remove the jack-plug the spring-metal contact closes the circuit again to restore audio to the speakers.

The spring-steel contact may have broken, or it may just have become distorted/bent so it's not closing the circuit like it should.