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Good Day. A warm welcome to the HP community. I reviewed the case regarding assistance with audio from your left speaker. I will be delighted to assist you with this.
Superb description, brilliant troubleshooting and terrific observations made before posting. Kudos to you for that.
To assist you with accurate information I would require more information regarding this:
- Did this happen after a recent power outage or surge?
For now, let me keep you posted about a few things.
- As the external speakers and headphones work correctly you have nailed it. It is not a sound card or driver issue. The left internal speaker does not work correctly and is faulty. It requires a replacement.
- If the external headphones also had this problem then we could have attributed the issue to be a driver related or sound card related one. But that is not the case here.
Hope this answers your question. The computer needs to be repaired. If the computer is more than 3 years old then service options with HP are no longer available because the original suppliers and manufacturers who manufacture and supply the parts to HP to build and service the computer don't do soanymore. So please contact a local Best Buy or Staples technician or any local technician to get it repaired.
Please perform all these steps patiently as it is critical to resolving the issue. The trick is to remain patient.
Hope to hear from you soon. Let me know how this goes. I genuinely hope the issue gets resolved without hassles and the unit works great.Please reach out for any issues and I'll be there to assist you.
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If this helps, please mark this as “Accepted Solution” as it will help several others with the same issue to get it resolved without hassles.
Take care now and have a splendid week ahead.