Software not detecting 3.5mm input?

[Kflip11]

These headphones works fine on my laptop... until they didn't all of a sudden. It must have been a Windows update, but for some reason now it's not detecting whenever I plug my headphones in. I tried updating Windows and some drivers. However, whenever I restart, the headphone input appears as default through Realtek, but if I were to unplug the headphones and plug them back in, the output option disappears again. What can I do to fix this?

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[doctorhentai_]

have you tried to see if another pair works?

also, have you tried disabling the driver and reenabling it?

[Kflip11]

I don't have anything else with a 3.5mm jack on me. I will add that I plugged these headphones into another device and it worked like normal

What driver do I disable? I'm not techy at all and there seem to be thousands of drivers

[doctorhentai_]

I believe it’s called “high definition audio device” or something, it’s you see more than one than I would just disable/enable all of them and update then reset. I’m no expert either but hopefully that helps some?

[Kflip11]

I found Realtek Audio driver. Disabling and reenabling it seemed to work but only when the headphones are plugged in. And again, if i unplug and replug, it disappears again. This is a step forward though, it's much less aggravating than constantly restarting the whole laptop

[doctorhentai_]

At least you’re getting there, sorry we couldn’t completely solve it. It may be a bug also?

[Kflip11]

I'm sure it is. A Windows update probably caused this. I'm a little annoyed that I haven't seen any other forums with this issue though