Z70va speakers have stopped working!

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Well, people that choose to build thier own laptop do it because they have a clue, so I figured out how to take apart the z70va to the motherboard and replace the audio card...and problem solved. So obviously it was a hardware issue, brought about after the card worked for a time. This was my resolution, I will be more than willing to help in the future if someone wants some direction-
Monday February 27, I called ASUS tech support, 25-35 minutes on hold, got a guy that barely spoke english, he told me that this was a known problem with the z70va's speakers and that I should send in the laptop for replacement. I use the computer daily for work, couldn't afford the wait so I asked that he would just ship out the card, which he did, it was recieved today, Friday March 3.
I dissassembled laptop at 3pm and by 7pm my sound was back working and my laptop was reassembled. Totally painless, and if I knew what I was doing the repair would have been 30 minutes. I just had to find a lot of screws, and I had never been that far into a laptop before. I wish I would have had a camera to assist anyone that would rather fix thier own machine than wait for ASUS. Anyways, that is it for me and this thread, but it was do to this thread my laptop is fixed, in just over a week!! Thanks, and PM me if you need someone to talk you through the motherboard level repair yourself!