[Chasaway]

However, mine has the plug ins for mic, speakers, etc. up near where your power supply is.

And it’s just a little silver box (sound card?).

Maybe it’s fried (intermittently).

C

[ThePythonicCow]

And it’s just a little silver box (sound card?).

The little silver box where your speaker wires plug in is not the sound card or chip. It is just the connectors. Wires or traces connect run from that box to your motherboard, and your sound chip (and a few related capacitors, likely) is one of the many chips on that big board.

So ... yes ... get a new sound card for one of your PCI slots, then be sure to disable the builtin sound in your BIOS when you install the sound card.

[wardaddy]

Did you get it fixed?

There are some sites on this....

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935448/,