So, I'm having a bit of a sound issue on my laptop. And with the current Corona epidemic, it's not that I can go to a repair shop very easily.

  The oddity I'm having started when I moved my laptop onto another table. Suddenly, the sound dimmed quickly, and sound was only playing in the left earbud, and really quietly. Windows was not recognizing anything was plugged into the headphone jack, despite you know, sound somewhat going to it.

  After a few failed tries, I manage to fiddle with the Realtech audio manager and sliding one of the sliders returns sound to somewhat normalcy when it was shifted from 50. It was the first of the 3 sliders. Sliding it back to 50 reverts everything back to the one headphone speaking really softly issue.

  However, my computer is still not detecting the headphones as actually plugged in. Running the troubleshooter shows that it's marking a headphone/audio device not being plugged in. As well, I'm noticing that it takes the headphones about 3-5 seconds before sound is shifted to the headphones. Lastly, I sometimes get an annoying crackling sound, though I'm starting to think that's NVDA needing to be rebooted.

  Right, this'll do for now until everything is back to normal world wise. but I'm curious if anyone might have any suggestions on what may of happened to my headphones. They work on other devices. I'm just hoping I didn't somehow crack/break the headjack or audioboard within. Though if that was the case, these headphones would not have worked at all. I'm more thinking maybe I pressed something on the side of this laptop without noticing it when moving tables.