About two months ago, my PC's motherboard shorted out and

Obvious question: did you update all the MB drivers? Did you bother reinstalling Windows (not strictly necessary)?

>>15928
Yes I install all of my motherboards new drivers

>>15928
Sorry I should have mentioned I also updated to windows 8.1. I also apologize for my retarded English.

>>15937
Your English is perfectly fine. But some constructive criticism: more people making requests should provide info about what they've done and tried. Otherwise you get endless "Did you try this?" questions.

Anyway. Did you do a clean install? Common wisdom is to not upgrade a Windows in place, but wipe it clean and start over.

>>15917
Modern PCs have hot-swap audio ports, where each port becomes a mic or a speaker or a headphone port, depending on what's plugged into it.

If you've got the front-panel audio connected wrong, it'll look like headphones are is plugged into it, and the PC will switch to it and mute the speakers in the back.

>>15947

Adding to this.
Presuming OP plugged in the (7 pin?) HD Audio cable from the case to the MOBO if he's using front audio jacks?

>>15939
I'm thinking reformating and reinstalling is what I should do. My 10 gigs or trap dojins will have to go ;_;
Thanks mate.

>>15967
OP you not got a removable disk you could back those up to?
Or just backup to Google Drive or Onedrive for free.

>>15967
Acquire a cheap HDD for storage. I got a 500GB, but I'm not a hoarder.