How would I connect a headphone jack to a PC with red, blue and green jacks?

[Sherniee]

I bought a couple of small speakers for my PC, However, it has a headphone jack made for a laptop along with a USB plug for power. The speakers seem to work when I plug the headphone jack into the front of my PC, that has a jack for earphones, etc.

However, I use the front jack for earphones when I need them, and I don't wanna keep plugging out my speakers for my earphones. On the back of the PC there are 3 jacks: Red, green and blue. I've tried each jack and it doesn't seem to work, any ideas?

 

[ModernWarfare]

so when you switch to plug it at the rear it doesnt work?

 

[Unolocogringo]

The green plug at the back is for speaker/headphones.
You may need to go to sound properties to enable speaker out at the rear plug.

 

[gwapito]

I bought a couple of small speakers for my PC, However, it has a headphone jack made for a laptop along with a USB plug for power. The speakers seem to work when I plug the headphone jack into the front of my PC, that has a jack for earphones, etc.

However, I use the front jack for earphones when I need them, and I don't wanna keep plugging out my speakers for my earphones. On the back of the PC there are 3 jacks: Red, green and blue. I've tried each jack and it doesn't seem to work, any ideas?

plug the cable from the speakers to the GREEN port at the back of your pc

 

[Sherniee]

Yes, it does not work when I plug it into the rear of the machine.

 

[ModernWarfare]

what is your sound device?

 

[Sherniee]

It is a pair of laptop speakers, has a USB plug and a headphone jack.

 

[ModernWarfare]

no i mean the software of the sound

 

[Unolocogringo]

Have you gone into sound properties and enabled the rear jack as the default sound device?
Most video cards and on-board video drivers will set themselves as the default sound device. That way you get sound to the monitor or tv through HDMI.

 

[Sherniee]

I'm not sure what you mean by sound software, if you're talking about the drivers, it's an IDT High Definition Audio CODEC

And no, I haven't been to sound properties to enable my rear jack as the default audio input, how would I go about doing that?

 

[Unolocogringo]

Start.
Control Panel.
Sounds.
Playback tab.
Depending on your sound software it will be listed as "speakers" or your on-board audio device.

 

[Sherniee]

Yes, I do have it enabled.

 

[Sherniee]

I've also noticed that even though there is no sound device connected to the machine, the sound icon in the taskbar is still not crossed out, and I can adjust the volume like there are headphones, etc. connected.