Not to try and sound mean myself, no, I am not that dumb, the sound is not muted anywhere. Yes, my sound has worked before, but perhaps I did something to it when I took everything out of it. Maybe I should mention that I put this computer back together from spare parts laying around. Though device manager says everything is peachy. The only thing that does not work is sound. I don't think the OS is the problem, because I've reinstalled everything from 2000, to Vista x86. Nothing, nada, zip. At any rate it is a Gigabyte board, that is NVIDIA nForce 3 250 series, ver 1.2, if that helps any. I think I will try and hunt down a sound card to test with and see if that helps in the mean time. If I can get it to work, it's probably the onboard sound is bad.