Front Panel Audio/Microphone Jacks only producing noise in one ear (homebuild)

YoungR

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Jan 5, 2014
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Hello,

I tried to use earphones with my computer earlier and found that the green/audio jack was showing up as the pink/microphone jack on the realtek audio manager and vice versa - turns out that these are the wrong way around on the corsair carbide 300r, I could try to swap them around but I see no need unless it fixes the issue of:

My earphones work with either jacks but only in one ear, unless I only half plug it in - which it then produces noise in both - does anyone know why this is and/or how to fix it? It is definitely plugged in correctly, have double checked.

Also does anyone know any good CPU coolers for the 1150 socket, on a side note - using the stock fan at the moment! as the Corsair 80i was too big :/