Thanks Phestus, but I did all that already and I'm sick of it.

I will contact the laptop retailer and see what he can come up with.

And I thought that I was pretty lucky, A friend purchased a laptop for the same purpose as me and despite what the retailer said, it had no sound card at all, and would never do any music. Needless to say it went back.

People considering laptops for music - watch out. So far the only laptops I hear good news about are the Apple models.

Intestinal