Conexant Audio Speakers No Longer Working After Unplugging Headphones - X301

Hello,
I plugged in some headphones via the jack for the first time after owning my X301 for 2 months. Ever since then, the laptop speakers stopped working!!! If I want to hear anything, I now have to listen via my headphones. The beeping I used to hear when I plug/unplug the AC adapter is gone, too. I have Vista/32 Home Premium.
Here is what I tried so far:
-Pressed the mute/unmute button on the keyboard.
-Adjusted the volume via the keyboard and from the Conexant icons in the taskbar.
-Disabled/enabled the speaker and (and the microphone too) from the Conexant menus.
-Disabled and enabled the Conexant sound hardware from the Vista Device Manager.
-Updated the Conexant Audio Drivers from 4.92.5 to 4.92.7.0 and then back to 4.92.5 (rebooted).
-Enabled and disabled the beep options within the BIOS.
I have noticed when sound is playing, the Conexant software visually indicates (via the green bar) for the speaker, but of course no sound comes from the speaker! Lenovo tech support wants me to do a recovery or send the laptop in! Help!
Message Edited by toughluck on 08-09-2009 08:42 AM

Double posting because this seems to be a solution
Ignore my last post (or switch back to CLASSIC in the 3rd tab)! Might be wrong here but I think the mother jack (the one from the laptop) has a small contact pin to tell it if a jack is plugged in or not and that can get bent or something like that and tell the system the headphones are always plugged in. I got my speakers back by repeatetly plugging in and out the headphones jack with a little angle to the action, It just came back..
Just tried the same trick on a DELL mini and it didn't work... hope it does for you
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