Hi Lori, What happens when you reboot? The reason I am asking is I also have a set of USB headphones, and I'm quite familiar with the problem you describe below. Usually rebooting the computer with the headphones plugged in resolves the problem.
Interesting enough, though, I seem to have the opposite problem here. If I'm listening to a book or movie in Windows Media Player the sound of the book or movie will come out of the USB headphones, but my screen reader, NVDA, will still be talking out of the laptop speakers. Its a strange problem, and one I still haven't figured out quite yet. So far the only resolution to the problem I've found is simply to shutdown and reboot Windows with the headphones plugged in and then NVDA and everything else works as they are suppose to. BTW, I'm running Windows 7 here on my laptop so the issue isn't just specific to Windows XP. Although, my desktop is running XP SP3, and I haven't seen this problem on the desktop. Just my laptop running Win 7. Cheers! On 7/13/12, Lori Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm sorry this isn't strictly audio game related, but yesterday > I got a new USB headset. It seemed to be working fine, but today I've > started having issues where I hear jaws through the headset, but computer > sounds play through the laptop speakers. I've checked in the control pannel > and under sounds and audio devices, I set playback and recording device to > the headset and saved the settings, but it doesn't seem to work. Could > someone advise what to do, it's almost as though it isn't connecting > anymore, yet when I plug it in I do hear a sound like some feedback letting > me know it's trying to work. I'm using windows xp on a laptop and have > tried the headset in all the usb ports. Also sometimes when I insert the > usb cabel it brings up the found new hardware wizard, so maybe it's > something to do with the usb software. Hope someone can help, i'm at the > hair pulling out stage, as it failled just as I was smashing zombies in > Swamp. Thanks from Lori. > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
