X-fi fatal1ty headphone/speaker switch

Hi.
When I first installed the fatalty, I could plug in my headphones and it would automaticaly switch to headphone mode. Now it doesn't, it stays in 5. speaker mode? I have made no changes that I am aware of and the automaticaly enable headphone mode is checked.. anyone got any ideas?
thanks

Maybe your auto switch option got disabled? If you have the Vol control panel running in your system tray click it then select Audio Consol option. One of the tabs in the next window is for headphone setting of Autoenable headphones and Auto mute speakers. Gi've a look there and see if that got unchecked somehow.

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