Boot camp won't recognize external speakers

There have been old posts about this before, but since they're archived, it's no longer possible to update the status of this issue.
When using Boot Camp on a Mac Pro, Windows refuses to recognize that external speakers are plugged into the Sound Out jack on Windows Vista (and, I believe, XP).
Does anyone have a solution for this?

This is very weird, for months I had Windows Vista 64 bit working just fine, then suddenly one day I couldn't hear my external speakers, I made sure I had the latest Boot Camp drivers. Nothing no sound only the internal speakers, I even reinstalled Windows Vista again, it didn't solve the problem, then I downloaded the drivers directly from Realtek and neither this solved the sound problem. One
thing I noticed if I jiggle the plug form side to side into the socket of my Mac Pro then I get sound from the external speakers, like if there is a loose wire inside or something like that. Very weird! if there was a loose wire then when I use the Mac OS X side I would have the same issue too. I don't know what's causing the problem.

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1. Get an empty external hard drive and clone your internal drive to the
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4. Restore the external clone to the internal hard drive.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
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5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
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6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
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Erase internal hard drive
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your internal hard drive (this is the entry with the
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Restore the clone to the internal hard drive
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
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