PC Problem..HELP

[Big Ass Lover]

I'm new to this computer thing and i've just bought some speakers plugged them in and they don't work. Is there something else i need to do? l
Cheers for any help

[mike johnson]

Did you plug them into both the USB port & the audio out's??

[Big Ass Lover]

They have two wires, ones the plug and the other is like a headphones lead

I'm not usually this thick

[ash]

headphone lead into green audio out socket and fire them up
maybe your volume is muted

[Big Ass Lover]

Tried it but nothing except a buzzing noise. Is there something in the control panel that needs clicking on?

[Jacques]

Do you need to install any drivers?

[Sam Slater]

It could be any number of things. Do you have a sound card, or does your motherboard have audio in/out?

You could have on-board sound, but you've not enabled it in your bios. Then again, it could be enabled but if you've got a sound card too, then that's conflicting/taking priority.

For starters make sure your speakers are turned on, and at about medium volume. Click 'Start' > 'Control Panel' > 'Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices' > 'Adjust System Volume' and make sure your device, nor speakers are muted, with audio levels around medium. This is just to check that XP (i'm presuming?) isn't muting anything. After you've checked XP isn't at fault then stick in a CD into your DVDROM drive and play the CD.

If you can't hear anything then it could be as I stated in the first paragraph: Onboard disablement in the bios, or a conflict (if you have a sound card too).

[mike johnson]

Also it could be that your jacks are bad or wrongly color-coded, both of which have happened to me w/ new PC's. Try another set of audio-out jacks, & check your headphone output jack to see if it works.

[Big Ass Lover]

It's not a brand new PC and i have 98 not XP.
I tried using a CD and it's come up as

"Error Cannot playback audio stream, no audio hardware available or hardware not responding"

I've looked on the microsoft website and i've either not got a sound card or there's a problem with it.

Does anyone know how to check?

Again as i said earlier i'm not that knowledgable about computers. If i do need a sound card what the hell do i do?

Cheers for the help