Why? They were removed completely. I had some wire coming from near the
jacks on the motherboard. I even throw them away because the front panel
jacks were bad quality. I don't know if you remember when I pluged in a flash
drive, the sound it made was awful because of the front pannel. I was hearing
that sound in my headset and also my mike was outputting the sound.
Now I even damaged one of the front pannel jacks because there was a problem
with the sound/headset jack. When I pluged it it, it had some kind of slack. It was
moving too much in there, so I opened the front panel and wanted to modify the
sound jack to make it tighter. What I did was with a hot piece of metal I cut around
the jack case to somehow tighten it's metalic rim. I did that, but it didn't work and
I somehow screwed the microphone jack which was working bad already.
I would purchase the USB sound card right now, but some say it's very good,
sounds a lot better than any motherboard soundcard but the problem is that
the USB soundcard is made of cheap plastic etc. I will check for some reviews
and later go out in town to see if I find anything. I would also like to find some
extension for my jacks. The headset has only 1.5 meters, I would've needed
2 meters of wire. It's good for when I sit on the chair normally for play and typing,
but when I lay back on the chair, it's too short