[jwhidd]

Originally Posted by bookworm

Are your audio plugs on the I/O plate or in a expansion slot, see here, click image to focus
http://www.overclockeddoc.com/bookwo...0io%20slot.JPG

you should have 2 sets of audio plugs, report shows a Sound Blaster audio card installed

Hi Barbara,
You are right, I do have two sets of audio plugs, I even have three sets. First, I have a set on my I/O plate, which consists of three holes (1 pink microphone, 1 blue input, 1 green output). Second, I have a set on an expansion slot, which consists of five holes (3 output holes in green, black and orange, 1 pink microphone hole, and 1 blue input hole). Third, I have a set on the front of my machine, which consists of just two holes a pink microphone and a green output.

Now, I think the expansion slot plugs and the two on the front are probably the same because on the back of my computer, just below the sound expansion slot I have two cords permanently coming out of my computer - a pink and a green, which have to be plugged in for the holes on the front of my machine to work.

Before I reformatted, I got sound by: plugging in my green speaker cord into the expansion slot & the pink cord from my computer into the expansion slot as well. (But I think the pink cord is unnecessary to get speaker sound, from what I am realizing now)

Finally, I no longer have a yellow exclamation point next to multimedia audio controller in my device manager. Does that mean I have the correct driver? and if so, now why does my sound not work?! (The only exclamation point I have now is that pesky ethernet controller.)

Hope you can sort this out for me, I really need to listen to Barack Obama's speech!
Thanks so much,
Jenn