Hi Ibrahim Well thanks for your message, it turned out to be such an easy solution. I plugged in my USB headset, and away I went, as everything working perfectly. Thanks again. Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:25 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: trying to get sound back on a hp vista pc Hi Terry. I agree that Steve could have been a little less patronising, but he does have a point you know. How on earth are you going to get help with this problem if you haven't a screen. Without a screen, no one will know where about in the system you are, nobody will be able to tell you where the sliders in the volume control are or whether the mute button is checked. The only suggestion I can possibly think of here is if you get yourself something like a USB headset which will act as a temporary sound card. If your computer is booting up, the USB sound card will let you here speech so you can get your main sound system working again. Steve's right on the money when he says its a false economy so I suggest you also look at getting a cheap LCD screen. They start from under a hundred pounds these days.