Yesterday I plugged a recording device into my line-in jack on my audio card. It was in for only a few seconds, then I removed it. After that, I soon noticed my audio in XP was messed up. It sounds really garbled. I tried uninstalling Realtek and reinstalling it, rolling back the drivers up to a week before, and still nothing. Messed up audio. I know that my sound card is in perfect working condition, because my computer dual boots into OS X and the sound is perfect there. Any suggestions on how I can fix the problem?

System restore could be your first option to a time before yesterday when this happened Thinks. "Does anyone out there try system restore as there first option?" PhilC

Well, by roll back drivers, I actually meant system restore. Sorry for not explaining clearly. Nope, that did not work, but thanks for the suggestion.

Try to delete the audio drivers in device mgr. then re-set the bios to the default (F5). We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -Albert Einstein 1879-1955

I don't actually know what you mean. When I try to delete the drivers, the only thing I can actually delete is the Realtek thing in the device manager. The Legacy audio drivers don't give me the option to remove/delete them. I'm really unsure as to what to do. I also don't know what the bios thing is you're asking me to do. Please explain. Thanks

Roll back drivers Remove sound card restart pc then reintall sound card it should work get update drivers from website if doest work try if you have extra sound card if it works otherwise you get new sound card. iam newbie i recently install suse linux 10.1 when i use su and type /etc/shadow it says permission denied i dont know why.