Right so I got my laptop back from repair as the charging port broke, and I've tried 2 pairs of head phones and neither of them work on my laptop although they work on my ipod. As far as I know my drivers are up to date

1. They've never required that before2. Seriously?
3. Doubt it, as it worked before it came back from repair







Neither of them appear here

You should have the Realtek HD Audio Manager installed, usually has an icon that looks like an orange speaker next to the taskbar clock.

You want to prod settings on there, ideally you want to tell it to tie up all similar jacks (advanced options) and turn off jack insertion detection (there's an icon that looks like a folder above the images of the jacks). The latter's a pretty broke setting, so turning it off normally cures 99% of Realtek issues.

Also dust, make sure the port isn't full of it.

This is what I see, I can't see an advanced option

Give the driver an update, there should be a load more to poke in the mixer app than you have.

Which Driver in particular?

So your audio driver is "Realtek High Definition Audio"?
Open the manager again and at the bottom corner,you will see the "I" icon,click it and tell us the information...

It was working before it went into repair for the charger, I highly doubt it is a hardware problem.