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Realtek causing front and rear panel to fight

spodave

Honorable
Mar 10, 2013
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10,510
I'm using Realtek on widows 7 home premium 32-bit, and when I try to plug in both the mic and the headphone jack simultaneously, my sound manager, Realtek, will somehow get confirmation that the side speaker output has a jack inserted, and the subwoofer output is fluctuating on and off.
I know for a fact and have checked and tested that there are no jacks inserted and it is free of dust.
I am only using the front speaker output for some standard, stereo desktop speakers.
This 'fluctuation' occurs anytime when I have both front panel jacks in.
Do you think its a problem with realtek, or is it a problem with the EM fluctuations from my hard drive?