dude that made no sense at all. I know exactly how to fix it, trust me, there's no way to fix it through the control panel sound options or the auzentech console. This is an auzentech card btw, not a graphics card either, so it doesn't have the same creative console that i think you're talking about. I know that all i need to do is find and add the EnableMonitorInput registry entry, but i don't know where to find it with my praticular sound card, or how to find out where to find it with my sound card. That's the only way this will work. And here's the thing, I can't enable input from all jacks, such as line input, which is what i'm trying to do, when there's no option for it. That's why i have to edit the registry. It's a vista issue. XP doesn't have this problem apparently.