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Thanks. The problem was that "karaoke mode" was set on in the Realtek HD Audio Manager. I clicked off the "X" and all is well now.

My grandson, who is 12 years of age, is not all that computer/Internet savvy and has apparently managed to bollix up the audio on this PC. Music from CD’s, YouTube, etc. plays, but you can’t...

Is there a microphone plugged in here anywhere? If there is remove it. If there is no microphone then the feedback is electronic, meaning you have somehow created a continuous loop; the PC feeds...

If you clone a hard drive using Norton Ghost, you cannot boot from it unless you fix the MBR. FDISK /MBR will do the trick.

Audio outlets sell plates and jacks, but they are usually for 1/4" plugs. That might still work for you, however. You could buy a 1/4" to 1/4" speaker cable then cut it in half then adapt the cut...

Others more knowledgeable than I may disagree, but in my experience you have two choices: (1) Install over the existing copy of WinMe, which preserves all your files and programs and (2) reformat...

That 20MHz 286 will be hard to beat for age. That goes back nearly to the original PC/AT, doesn't it?

There are professional data recovery services out there. Try searching on "HDD data recovery service". I used one to recover a blown system drive about ten years ago and I got back 100% of my data.

For what it's worth, optical (as in fiber optics) is faster then coax and/or has higher band-width.

A coupla things I ran into:

(1) If I cloned XP using Ghost, I could not boot from the cloned drive until I ran FDISK with the /MBR parameter.

(2) When I re-installed XP on a new HDD (in an...