For some reason all of the sound (volume) settings of my 8.1b3 install (clean install) were _zero_... I had just about convinced myself that it wasn't recognizing my AC97 compatible chipset (VIA 8233), when it occurred to me to check the mixer settings. Sure enough, they were all (except for PCM?) set to zero... I changed the sliders to some reasonable values, and it's all good... (actually, playback quality seems better than 8.0) Unless there is a good reason not to, perhaps a default of 50% would be more appropriate? -Jason
