No audio in Windows Vista from my external speakers

when using BootCamp (on the OS side), i can hear my audio through my external speakers, but when i go to the WIndows Vista side, i only get audio through the monitor itself. what can i do to fix it so that it all come through the external speakers?
thanks for any advice

It's hard to know exactly which it is at this point. It could be one of two things. The speakers have failed or the jack detect pin located inside the headphone jack has failed. A non-functional jack detection pin would cause the system to route audio to the headphone jack constantly instead of the internal speakers.
If you want to be absolutely certain it is not a software issue (corrupted registry possibly), you can try the system recovery making sure to backup your files. I suspect this is a hardware issue, but it could very well be a corrupted registry causing the jack detection pin not to be read properly.
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