FxSound not detecting my headset after re-plugging

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Hello!

I am currently using FxSound v1.2.6.0 in my HP Pavilion Laptop. The audio drivers are from Realtek.

There is this issue where upon connecting my IEM jack (KZ EDX Lite) to the laptop, both my computer and FxSound do not detect it. I have to restart my laptop while the IEM is plugged in to make it detected.

I have tried searching for a similar situation in this forum but I have not found one that suits my case here. Can anyone help me to fix this? It is very tedious if I have to restart my laptop every time I encounter this issue.

Thank you in advance.

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would you clarify a bit more about what you meant by “not detect”, there’s quite a few cases of what happen here since you also mentioned something about Realtek driver (is there a “realtek speaker” device showing? [1]. back to your issue since i can’t guess what scenario it looks like over there, I’ll give you some general quick tricks to see if it helps.

First i’d unplug the IEM, exit Fxsound. then go to sound settings —> more sound settings —>disconnect all of the sound devices you see in that panel (not disable) [2]. keep the sound panel open after you done disconnecting Fxsound, realtek etc.. now plug in IEM again and give it a few moment to show up (should be instant usually), so right here i’m assuming/hoping it shows, in which you could double click the IEM go to “advance” and test to make sure sound is working. Then you can turn fxsound and realtek back on. (i’d try one at a time and see which sounds better if I were you). That is my go to kiss (keep it stupid simple) trick whenever an audio device has issue. But again, you could be facing something totally different than what I imagined, so best taking bunch of screenshots if still need some help and explain like i’m 5 what the problem you are seeing.
I don’t use IEM like ever, so feel free to toss my two cents peacefully away orrrr you can close your eyes and let me be those voices in your head lol jkjk.

  1. unfortunately I believe you’re free to choose, but should only use either fxsound or “realtek speaker”— which they are kinda the same, doing audio processing (realtek speaker is an APO which supports audio jack so you should try out both imo and see for youself ), tdlr using both may just adding more unwanted layers of audio processing ↩︎

  2. disconnecting them, from my understanding will help reinstall the audio drivers when you don’t like messing with “device manager” ↩︎

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So usually when I connect my IEM to my laptop, sound settings should have shown ‘Headphones’ as one of the output option. In my case, if I unplug my IEM—I’ll refer this ad headset for simplicty—and plug it again, my laptop does not detect it as ‘Headset’.

Even after closing FxSound and unplug+plug the headset, my laptop still does not detect it as ‘Headphone’. the only solution is to restart my laptop.