Im going to get straight to it, the laptops audio works in the bios (i can make it beep for instance) so i know the sound card is working but yet it only works every now and then in windows! im using windows vista, is this a problem with vista at all? ive not had xp working on the machine so ive no idea how it worked in that...suggestions on how i should start trying to find the cause fof the problem? thanks!