Audio and internet

[Lozza Hyde]

Hello All!

I'm currently having a world of trouble getting core 3 on to my laptop.  
Barring the odd hiccup, it works fine on my desktop but for some reason I 
cannot get my laptop to:
1) play my audio cds with sound
2) dial my internet connection

My sound card works, if I download the files to ogg format they play with 
sound, but it won't run off the cd player.  It doesn't give me an error 
message there is simply no sound.

My internet connect too won't work.  I have tried everything I can think of 
(text based dialers and the connection wizard) and it doesn't work.  The 
most it will tell me is that it is getting error 8.
>>Connection error 8
The modem works, the laptop came with Windows default and it worked fine 
from there.  F3 recognises the modem and will even attempt to dial, but I 
get no dial tone and then it spits out error 8.

To finish off my rounds of installation troubles, it won't shut down 
properly.  I have to hold the power button down in order to cut power to the 
unit.

Cheers,
Lozza