I am not getting any sound through my speakers. Tried to reinstall the drivers but the drivers i downloaded aren't working.My soundcard is a VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM).Not sure if that is right but any help would be great.Thought about just buying a new soundcard but want to try and fix this first.Thanks in advance.

just installed drivers for the soundcard and they appear to be working according to windows. Could it possibly be the speakers that are not working?When I power them up you can hear them switch on but no sound comes through them.What do you think?

try connecting the speakers to the headphone jack. have you tested the speakers using another system? i wish i were what i wished i were before i wished i were what i am now...

You speakers must be amplified (and working of course). You will hear little or nothing if they are not. You must have them plugged into the right jack. If you're not sure which one, if you have manuals see your mboard manual if you have onboard sound, or your sound card manual; or if there is color coding at each jack, mic is red - spkr is often green - it doesn't harm anything to try each jack in any case. Sound cards often have symbols stamped into the metal beside the jacks as well. It sounds like you don't have a sound card - you have an onboard sound chipset. If you do have onboard sound, are you sure you have Via AC97? Many mboards had Via AC97 on them in the cheapest configurations, but many had optional sound upgrade chipsets that may have been installed instead of the Via AC97 - both are often mentioned in the mboard manual, but the mboard will have one or the other, not both. If you do have a separate sound card and that is what you are plugged into, and you also have onboard sound, your must select the audio source (in Control Panel - Multimedia - Audio (the default) - Preferred Device) because Windows will probably choose the onboard sound by default, or go into your bios and disable the onboard sound so it selects the sound card automatically.