Only left audio......

[Raify]

A strange one. Only the left channel is working on my pc. It appears to be a sound card issue, cirumventing the speakers produces the same results.

Xp Home SP2 Pentium 4
Yamaha ac-xg sound card (with up to date driver)

I opened her up to find that the sound card looks integrated with the motherboard. The first thing I thought of was just to buy another sound card, but will this solve it?

The only thing I can remember doing recently that might have affected it, was removing a cable that used to serve the (long removed) minidisc deck.

thanks in advance.

[docevi1]

have you checked the sound balance in the sound properties (the speaker next to the clock). It might be you've simply switched the channel off.

[Plotloss]

Is the jack seated correctly?

[Raify]

Aye, checked the balance and the jack...

[ErnestM]

What about the cable? Wire may be broken...

ErnestM

[Raify]

Which cable? I've ruled out the possibility of faulty speaker / cable by putting working headphones directly into the soundcard.

[ErnestM]

Woops, missed that part...

I guess you are looking at and add in card, then. I would attempt to disable the on-board audio FIRST before I add the new card. Most modern systems allow you to do that in the BIOS. If not, there is usually a jumper on the motherboard.

My add in cards of choice have always been soundblasters. Good value for money and most of their current crop have a good digital audio out option.

ErnestM

[Raify]

What about external ones, are they any cop? I think I've run out of PCI slots, although I could free one up by removing the wifi card.

[ErnestM]

I would be more apt to put the soundcard inside and use a USB dongle for wifi. Soundcards just seem to function better as a pci add-in. All of the wifi/usb things that I have tested have no issue being external...

ErnestM

[Raify]

Cool, thanks for the advice Ernest!