Using headphones cause external monitor to sleep

Tillster

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My HP laptop is connected to an external monitor

Whenever I plug my headphones into the laptop, the external monitor goes to sleep.

I've been looking through the control panel (win7) but cannot find any setting that links the monitor / device to the sound input.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to what the problem might be?