<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>Thanks for the advice on GRUB. Now I have a dual boot to XP but another problem that I'm facing is that I have no sound. First, in the bar at the top of my screen, the usual icon for the sound display isn't there. When I try to go to System/Preferences/sound, it does not open. I have identified my sound card as<br> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) <br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Audio Chipset: Realtek ALC883 <br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">and I have downloaded the driver from Nvidia but I don't know how to proceed from there. I'd appreciate some advice on this. Thanks,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Robert Schwab<br></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br> </p> </p> <br><br></td></tr></table><br>