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Integrated Audio Jack broken?
I got 5.1 integrated audio on my motherboard and I'm using 2.1 speakers. Got the green jack plugged into the front port and the pinky orange one in the Center/LFE port.
Problem is the left speaker is either quieter than the right or completely off. I wiggle the green jack cable and sometimes it comes back. Plugged the green jack into my iPod and both speakers work fine.
I think this is the second or third time I've had this failure. Quite sure the jack is busted but my question is how did I break it?
Is it a bad idea to pull the jacks out or plug them in while the computer and speakers are both powered up? It's the only thing I can think of that might have caused one of the channels to act up. They were both working when I assembled the computer.
When I get some more time, I'll try to look into the jack to see if the contacts are dirty or bent. Quite annoying either way