It doesn't tell you what has failed but a cheap fix for a blown on board audio is the under 10 buck USB audio stick. Link follows.
When we do this, we set the BIOS to disable onboard audio.
Read https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-External-Sound-Cards/zgbs/electronics/3015427011/
Most of my ports started acting weird after a storm a couple of days ago.
My audio jack in the back stopped working completely and my mouse and keyboard stop working when the PC gets into even remotely stressful situations ( getting into a game, etc ). Also, on the first few starts of my PC ( after the storm ) it was acting weird, being horribly slow to start-up and there was a weird error message when I powered it down - that stopped and now the PC powers on normally but the problems previously stated are still in effect.
Any help? Did the storm screw anything up?

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