



It will take some research, searching, and perhaps a little trial and error, but a great fix is to locate a version of your sound card driver that doesn't support sense pin technology, and it should bypass the faulty pin perfectly. I believe this disables the side jacks completely, but considering they never really worked properly, due to the faulty sense pin, it was no big loss for me. This was suggested to me by the Dell website itself, so I tried the alternative driver, and now my audio plays perfectly through my laptop speakers! I found a version of driver for my sound card that simply does not have that option available. The problem we have been experiencing is due to a faulty sense pin in the audio jack.
