themovieaddict

Okay, I previously owned a 2001 Dell Dimension 8200 desktop, and when I purchased it I also bought a 5.1 speaker system with Santa Cruz audio card. Last week I bought a new HP 300 GB hard drive PC with plenty of processing speed and wasn't very familiar with audio cards and didn't realize that in order to hook up my 5.1 system I'd need to take the card from the Dell and put it in the HP.

So I opened up the Dell and got the Santa Cruz PCI card out - but attached to it was at least one wire (can't remember - may have been two) and they were connected to the CD drive of the interior of the computer.

I left the wires because I couldn't find similar ports to plug them into on the HP and I just installed the PCI card. It worked great and the speakers are working fantastic.

BUT... today I realized that I can't record any sound through my microphone. I also tried to convert a movie from Xvid format to MPEG 2 the other day, and the result was fine video-wise but it contained no audio - and I tried numerous video converters, none of which seemed to work.

The output seems to be fine but I'm wondering if those one or two wires that were attached to the PCI card before are responsible for the problems I'm having. I am a bit confused and am not too familiar with audio cards in general - I wouldn't have even installed it in my new PC to begin with until I realized the wires from my 5.1 system had nowhere to plug into on the HP. (My Santa Cruz audio card has five colored audio jacks on its exterior.)

So...basically...anyone have any advice?