I had thought that I'd pulled the jack out rather forcefully
but after discovering that the stero test was working I figured it must be software rather than hardware

there are a couple of audio devices listed in Dev Manager, so I will take another look at it later and figure out which I should be using for what.

It's a budget computer, so probably doesn't actually have those two things...

annoying thing is, I only use the computer for music, internet and video, and sound is pretty crucial to all of those!

I haven't installed anything recently, but that's not to say that something hasn't installed itself!

For what it's worth, for my purposes Vista is an excellent operating system. Fast, simple and nice to look at.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 14:45, Reply)