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Hey Guys, Quick first post huh? :p Ok, so I have a Biostar GF 8100 M2+ SE Mobo with onboard sound, video and LAN. Sound is RealTek HD Audio (Alc662), Video is nVidia gforce 8100 / nforce 720a. AMDx2 CPU, 2GB DDR2 RAM, (128mb shared vid). I've checked drivers through device manager, although nVidia gives me blue screen after install and restart. I then have to go back to last best config. I've recently ran Ubuntu, and had two installs of XP recently, all on seperate HD's. The sound never worked with Ubuntu *cough* but worked fine with the first XP install. Now it crackles and buzzes when playing through WMP or VLC, but I can play online videos and it is fine. Which really has me puzzled. I am a total noob, but surely if the sound is mucked up then shouldn't it all be mucked up? Also, and I realise this is the sound card forum, but when the sound mucks up, the video in WMP and VLC also goes blank too. Just incase that might shed any light on the situation. Thanks for reading my epic, and I'd be grateful for any help at all, Cheers :) ~kitten

I'd like to say I know a little about whats under the hood but that would be over estimating it a tad. I managed to put my latest configuration together, and its up and running, but yeah.. I am having a few problems, and that's why I am here :) This looks like a pretty good place and I'm glad I have found it. Hopefully I won't have too many people pulling their hair out with silly noob questions. No trilogys, just wanted to say Hi, and thanks for having me ;) ~kitten