hi all, i've been fighting to get this new system up and running and have run into a snag i haven't been able to figure out. i cant seem to get the integrated sound to work. i enabled it in the bios and have everything hooked up right. i downloaded the latest drivers and installed them. heck, win-xp even shows all the devices working correctly but i still dont have any sound. any advice would be very much appreciated. i'm about ready to install an old sound card i have just to make sure my speakers are ok but i know they are because they make noise when i use them with my other system. thanks in advance for the help. if someone could e-mail me direct it would really help because my service doesnt let me subscribe to this site. the e-mail address is: . thanks again!