had to replace stock hard drive with a new one due to a virus 
when the tech put the new hard drive in, i lost all my back up files
and he installed a audio card but i can barley hear it when its all
the way up
so i was wandering that maybe it has to due with the motherboard, i
even took out the card the tech put in and put in a sound blaster live
board and i got the same problem. is there anything i can due to get
the sound back to normal matbe a driver or something.  thank you

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 20 Aug 2005 19:38 PDT

mike...

Since you're having the same experience with 2 different audio
cards, it's fair to suspect a common element, such as the 
motherboard, but I'd be quicker to check the volume control on
your speakers. Most PC speaker systems have a volume control 
which is independent of the system itself. Perhaps it got 
turned down by accident?

Let me know...

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by mike21811-ga on 21 Aug 2005 08:55 PDT

thanks for responding, but no volume control on the  pc speakers of any kind.
somehow i think the old hard drive had files in it that were needed
for the sound card that i believe is built in to the mother board. i
turn up the creative mixer volume control software that came with the
sound blaster card to the max and still the same result.

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Clarification of Question by mike21811-ga on 21 Aug 2005 09:02 PDT

is there any way i could take a picture of the back and the inside of
the computer to show you how they setup the hardware of my computer.
it looks like it has a connection on the back of the computer just for
the orange colored speaker adapter that when i look on the inside of
the case it connects to the motherboard.