Its got XP and yes the plugs are directly beneath the keyboard and mouse plugs. I have no idea if there is a soundcard in it, and my boss is indisposed.

He's a rich guy that fell into a bottle of vodka, now he's in rehab. Don't know if I'll ever see him again


Your sound is built onto the motherboard it could be deactivated in the BIOS if this was a business machine. There are several ways to get into the bios depending on the type of computer. It could be F1, or F2, or the DELETE key during bootup depending on the computer. Go in there and look under the periphials catagory and see if you have an item called onboard sound, or AC '97 sound or something like that. If it's disabled, go ahead and change that to enabled and that should get windows to recognize your sound option at the next bootup.....


A computer that old could also have used the crystal audio codec. I had crystal audio on a Gateway system and it finnaly died. Put in a new soundcard and sound was even better! Thats considering one time was out, reinstalled driver and a month later after 3 hard crashes in a row sound came back!
I also had crystal audio on a Monorail Computer (tool and die shop I used to work for made tooling for them so got one heck of a deal!), only way to restore sound was tottaly format and restore using restoration disk.

Hi, I set up parental blocks on an Acer Aspire with Vista.
I don't know much about computers and now it says that
I need administrator authorization. The user page says no one
is the administrator. Now I can't do anything to the computer like defrag or add printer, etc... I have done some checking
and the most I can figure is to get rid of vista and install
something else. Any suggestions? The laptop is 14 mths old.

My computer freezes sometimes and I cant even move the cursor. Is there anything I can do besides pulling the plug out?