Do I have a Sound Card issue?

[Paula De Niro]

Hi,

I had to get my PC repair guys to reinstall Windows XP because my old hard drive died, and since then I cannot record onto Audacity using my mike.

Well it does record, but so quiet I have to turn my speakers up full to hear it, and then I get terrible hissing. It's nowhere near the volume it was before.

And someone said I have a sound card problem, because when I tried to record in Windows Sound Recorder I could not record at all either.

I did all the troubleshooting on this page:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000208.htm#04

and everything is as it should be according to that page, so why can I still not record properly?

thanks

[Paula De Niro]

Forget it. I have Audacity working OK now.

Please delete this.

thanks