If you need any additional information, just let us know. Once you change the default audio output device to the laptop speakers, all sound will be coming through it instead of going to the Docking Station’s Audio ports. your laptop’s built-in audio) and click “Set Default” to make it the default for sound output. Left click the default device once to highlight it ( it's usually 'speakers & headphones' ) then click the Properties button.

You should be seeing something like this-: This will bring up the list of available audio devices, one of which should be your USB audio device. Here is how to configure the settings on Windows 7-:Ĭlick on Start>Control panel and select ‘Hardware and Sound’Ĭlick on ‘Sound’. But if you do not have speakers, we can get the audio to play through the Laptop speakers by making it the default playback device. Thanks for posting here! By default, Windows 7 makes a new USB audio device the default - even if it doesn’t have any speakers attached! So if speakers are plugged into the dock you will definitely hear the audio.