Sounds to me like the motherboard drivers are not installed.
Catweazle
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I have not seen a motherboard that had to have drivers for the com ports to work.
(Usb and IR and firewire ports... MB driver disk)
The ones I have seen have all been enabled or disabled in the bios/cmos setup
Did this motherboard ever have full sound?
(Not just whispers that you have now)
Do the speakers work on another system?
Are you plugging into the correct jack?
(Is it Firmly seated)
Thong_Ispector
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