[jnieman]

Hi all:

I thought I would follow up to let you know how this all played out. I contacted a friend who is really good with computers and he said to check the audio settings. I did that and somehow the audio was defaulting to the monitor instead of the laptop. The monitor has no speakers. I changed the setting to the laptop and now my sounds works! I've been without sound for about a month now so now I'm listening to all kinds of music and videos and everything. So happy. As far as the cord not fitting I may eventually get that taken care of but for now it all works. Thanks for your help.