Headphones won't work

My computer won't recognize any headphones when I plug them in. The sound just continues to play out of the speakers.

It was working fine before. But all of a sudden, this happened.

 

You may need to visually inspect the headphone jack from the inside to make sure none of the contact prongs has not broke, or bent out of shape.

 

Well, I tried something. I went to "services" and set Waves MaxAudio that I disabled before and set it to "Automatic". I think it was set to "manual" originally.

Not sure why it was working fine on disabled for a few days and decided to not work all of a sudden. But whatevs, it's working now.

 

Great to see you are "hearing" again. There had to be some small trick to it.

 

Actually. It stopped working again. I went ahead and set it to "manual" and restarted and it works okay now. But it probably won't last for long..

It seems like whenever I change the setting whether disabled, manual, or automatic it will fix the problem but only temporarily. I have no idea why it would work for just a short time period. But there has to be a permanent fix to this. I don't want to have to keep rebooting the computer every time I want to use my headphones, granted with an SSD it doesn't take too long, but still annoying.