chairwars - 11:26 am on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

thanks, all volume controls are set to max, including in the sound effects manager, and everything is as it should be in BIOS. I've now downloaded the latest and greatest drivers from Realtek and nothing is making a difference. Someone suggested that my mobo doesn't have as much pre-amp output voltage as my previous mobo and that i would need a pci sound card to improve it.