Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Hi Doreen, first be sure your friend has actually plugged the speakers into the actual "speaker" jack on the sound card. All the jacks, both inputs and outputs, are identical on standard sound cards. You won't do any harm by plugging speakers in to other jacks, they just won't work. If the sound card also has a "DB15" connector for a MIDI cable, the speaker jack is usually, but not always, closest to this D type connector. You can plug any "walk man" type stereo headphones into the "speaker" jack on the sound card. If you get sound in the headphones, the problem is in the speakers. Conversely, you can plug the speakers into any other gizmo that usually takes stereo earphones, walkman, tape recorder or whatever. This assumes the sound card and speakers have the usual stereo earphone jack and plug set. If it fits it'll probably work. That aught to narrow the problem down a bit. Tom Fowle Net-Tamer V 1.12.0 - Registered VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html