Realtek HD Audio Green audio-out stops working?

Gigabyte EP-45-DS3L Realtek HD Audio

Out of nowhere my Green port stops outputting sound. I have 5.1 speakers and all of the other ports (Orange and Black) work, but my right speaker won't play anything. I've tried plugging headphones into the same port and I get nothing.

When I put the same green plug into the Grey port and set it to "Front Speaker out" it acts as the green port and my right speaker works again.


Now whenever I plug any speaker plug into the green port I just get static and hissing.


Any ideas? I think it may be dust.

Have I got this right? It was working, and then, somewhat suddenly and consistently stopped? Sounds like a hardware problem to me... Did you install any new software just before the problem started? You can solve the problem, if you're only using 5.1 (i.e., not actually using all the jacks...) by right clicking on the driver's image of the jack, and 're-tasking' it to the pair of channels you want...

I have found a few more complaints about this family of boards and, specifically, the 'green' jack, which leads me to believe that it is not related to a hardware failure - I find it unlikely (though possible, if there is a design 'weakness' involved) that the same jack would fail/f&*k-up on several MOBOs. Have you tried the drivers available directly through RealTek?

Hi!

I've also got a similar problem, the green rear audio-out doesn't work. The blue one next to it works but the audio comes out very distorted and the same with the green front out. I have tried updating drivers and I've also reinstalled everything with no solution. Any ideas?

Thanks!