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The audio circuit / codec Realtek ALC295 is still flawed. The audio IC fails either open circuit or short circuit, one of the failure modes I have encountered was it still being detected (aplay -l) but only outputting white noise, static noise, or snow throught the 3.5mm audio headphone jack on the HPOUT_R & HPOUT_L pins while the HP_JD (jack detect) was pulled to ground the output from the presummably the mixer block had failed inside the ALC295 IC. The built-in audio class d amplifier block for the internal speaker (not the headphone driver block) inside the ALC295 did not generate any noise (dead silent). However I was unable to find any datasheet or boardview that intergrates the ALC256 or ALC295 I was unable to look deeper in this problem. Not to mention that both codec's show a awful lot of issues on kernel.org or various other linux bugreport places it does indicate to me that these models of Realtek ALC were flawed by design and this is why they are quickly been replace by their successor.