...and i assume it is not happening on windows?
not sure if it's a hardware or software issue.
in alsamixer, press F5 to get
all channels, and go through them, see what they do, mute them with 'm' (you will see 'MM' in channel).
give us the output of
Code:
lspci -k | grep -A4 Audio
uname -rv
aplay -L