[juppy]

Do you have a set of speakers that you know work that you could hook up and test with to see if it's the speakers or the sound card? Most sound cards come with some sort of test program to make sure the sound card is working properly. If you have another set of speakers, then you could test to see if its the speakers or sound card that is at fault. As for that system speaker not having any drivers installed....it doesn't need them. The system speaker is the little speaker that give you the POST beep when you first turn your system on. No driver needed for that. I just double checked on my system (both my speakers and my system speaker work fine) and mine says no drivers are installed for that either.