Sound problem on MacBook Pro with XP

Question

Hi all...
When I have headphones or an audio cable plugged into my MacBook Pro running XP and BootCamp 2.1, the sound will occasionally distort digitally for a second or two, then the sound will cut out, go through the internal speakers, then go back through the cable an a message will pop up in the tray telling me I just plugged something into the audio jack. This happens about once every five minutes or so.
Is that a driver issue, is it the headphone jack, or is it the cable?
Any ideas welcome!
Thanks,
marcintouch

Answer 1

Hi guys,
I just updated bootcamp few hours ago with xp pro 32 bit on 2.2ghz macbook
and as I tried to use the audio jack, the sound never goes through my earphones but went to the internal speakers instead.
So I googled the problem and realized it should be the driver's problem
I've tried to repair with the leopard cd to fix the problem, but since it's now 2.1 based so it didn't work
Here's what I did to roll back to bootcamp 2.0 driver without touching other 2.1 udpates
Go to start->control panel->system, a small window should now pop out->choose Hardware tab-> Click on Device Manager button on the top, another window should now pop out too-> roll down to the section saying 'Sound, video and game controllers' and expand the list by clicking the '+' symbol on its left->you should now see a list with a several names, one of them should say 'Realtek High Definition Audio', when you see it, right click on it-> after right clicking, a drop down list should appear, click on uninstall-> it should now be gone from your list since it's now uninstalled, at this point, click on the button on the top of this window where it's under 'Help' near middle left with a symbol looks like it's a computer with a magnifying glass, it's next to a button with a big question mark. The button will scan any hardware that has no driver on your computer, of course including your just uninstalled Audio device. Now, DON'T CLOSE Device Manager window(still need it), but grab your leopard 10.5 disk and insert to the optical drive, when it prompts to ask you what to do, you click 'Cancel'. After that, go back to Device Manager window, you should now see big yellow question mark popped out from no where saying it's the Audio Device, right click on that one and choose update driver. Another window should now pop out asking you what to do, choose 'No, not now' then click on 'Next'. Now, here you should see a several way to update the driver, choose the 'automatically (Recommended)' one then click on 'Next', it should now run by itself through optical drive so just wait for now. Afterwards, it might say cannot update but make sure in Device Manager the 'Realtek High Definition Audio' appear properly under the sound list (that's what happened to mine) now it should work, or else just use the Repair function of leopard cd if this ultimately fails
*This is my personal experience, it worked for my case but I am not responsible to ensure it will work for other cases as well.*
Please do let me know if it works after you try it though
Thanks.
Message was edited by: stk514