Sam,
He has headphones plugged in that's why he can hear what he recorded. Look on the properties for the card and see if there's a check box for direct monitoring. I'm sort of surprised it doesn't but Dell always used in the past an odd ball oem creative card.It may just be a matter of settings in the playback and record properties.


John
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