For whatever reason changing the headphone plug into the rear of my pc did the trick! Thank you. The weird thing is I have been using the 1/8" jack on the front of my pc forever and it has always worked. I switched to the rear plug and it is working now, whew.

I assume the front jack has failed?

I can open and adjust from the pc's soundmixer as well. Thank you for my sanity now, lol.

So far, so good. TY Audio Track !!!!

Trax