HP Pavilion a700y sound/headset problem

I bought a used hp pav and the speakers in the lcd don't work. It also has a gazillion jacks (those little colored holes) for mics and headsets, etc. I finally got my old speakers to work on it but I would like the lcd speakers to work and I have jacks on the front for mic, headset and something else and I cannot get the headset to work on the front one. It does work on the jack on the back of the computer so I know its not the size of the jack or the headset. As a matter of fact, I would like ALL the jacks to work correctly.

I hooked up a wireless mouse to a usb port and it won't work either.

Any advice Oh My Gurus of TSF?


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