Disable speakers on laptop not headphone jack...

[Richard Andrew x64]

Did you look in the BIOS?

[Marc Clifton]

Nope. Unless you have a machine that lets you independently control headphone and speaker volume, there is physically a cutoff from the speakers (or, probably nowadays, a sense line) that disables the audio feeding the amplifiers to the speakers when the headphones are jacked in, and there's no soft control over that feature, AFAIK. Marc Pensieve

[Shog9 0]

I had a similar need a while back, and solved it by using one audio device for speakers and another for headphones. But then, that was a desktop system, so adding a second audio device was no big deal. Still, you might want to look into the USB audio devices out there - some of them are pretty small, and you'll probably get a good deal better quality than what your laptop has built-in.

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[Jeremy Falcon]

Well, on a desktop, you could simply turn off the speakers and just stick the headphones into the CD drive if you're listening to an audio CD that is. Jeremy Falcon

[Christian Graus]

Pliers. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

[PJ Arends]

:laugh: 5

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[Ed Poore]

Unless your laptop has some special hardware (& software that interacts with that hardware) there is no physical way apart from: Pliers or a slightly more sophisticated way: Building a little circuit which interfaces with the USB / Serial Port / Other I/O pin which allows you to switch it on or off. Best bet is (if you absolutely must have it):

1. Open case
2. Find speakers
3. Find wires to speakers
4. Get STDP switch (or is it DPST), basically a switch that is made from two isolated switches but operated by the same physical switch. (if that made any sense :) )
5. Cut wires and solder switch in
6. Find somewhere to put the switch :-D
7. Close lid
8. Pray :rolleyes:

Ed

[code frog 0]

I only need it on a temporary basis. I have a really nice MP3 player sitting right next to me it's just missing the power cord it went into storage.:doh:

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[normanS]

Go to your local electroics shop and buy a loose headphone plug (or rip the plug off an old, broken set of headphones.) When you unplug the headphones, plug in the loose headphone plug (no wires connected) - this will cut off the signal to the speaker. Modern electronics will not be harmed by this infinite-impedance load.

[code frog 0]

A very out of the box solution! Thank you very much. That's a great idea.

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[Xoy]

If you don't mind something sticking out, you could get an "extension" thing.. sort of like a Y-splitter (two-fer, whatever you want to call it :rolleyes: ) only maybe one only? that way, since something is plugged in, it won't play unless you have something plugged into the extension as well :)

[normanS]

A pleasure.

[code frog 0]

:rose:It's all mine. I've got a splitter in the side of it right now and I cannot hear a thing. :cool::rose:

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