thanks Jerry. I've tried that one. Anyhow, I found out that the real reason why the sound card is greyed out -- it's because all the system drivers (in the Services) were disabled. I don't know how it happened but turning them all manually failed for some reason -- not until I used my back up of the registry from Spybot's folder. My computer is now working perfectly again. -- myobee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ myobee's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=51446 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=103898 http://forums.techarena.in
