Hi,

I'll try to paraphrase this problem.....

Bought a cheap Gateway laptop with Vista pre-installed.  Found that Vista
was FAR too slow and decided to wipe and install win2000 with SP4 and latest
Internet updates.  There is NO SOUND.  I re-installed Vista on another
partition and now have a dual boot facility.  Sound works fine on the Vista
OS but stubbornly does not on win2000.  They both use the same NVIDIA
GeForce 6100 driver.  The double irony is that the device manager (in 2000)
says that audio drivers are working normally, yet in another dialogue box
there is no playback, recording or midi devices to choose from - in fact the
drop-down choice boxes are greyed out!

Is this simply a case of the brand new motherboard was designed specifically
for use by Vista only and there is nothing that I can do to fix it?  It's
strange that everything else works fine - NIC, USBs, display etc.

Thanks for any input on this!!

Jim Robin