Is My X-Fi Fatality Pro Blown?

I've had my X-Fi Fatality Pro for about a year and a half now and it has always worked fine apart from the driver/memory leak issues, but last night I got a faint buzzing in my right ear that won't go away.
I can hear the buzzing and it correlates with mouse movements/clicking and during bootup I can hear it making input noises as I press keys on the keyboard.
My attempts to fix it have included:
Reinstalling drivers (with driver sweeper)
Removing the card from the system and getting any dust off
Testing different headphones and it still has the faint buzzing noise
FWIW, my microphone still sounds fine.
In my not so expert opinion, it seems like the green 3.5mm port is blown.
My question is does it sound like the card needs to be replaced? I don't really know of any way to test the PCIe slot on my motherboard without getting a new card.
Any advice/suggestions appreciated! Thanks

I would first look in control panel/administrati've tools/Event Viewer and see if the system is giving any sort of error while it does this. And in the meantime, what is in your system, (motherboard/processor/graphics/any add on cards/is it 32 or 64 bit Vista,etc..)

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