No really it is! I've had god knows HOW many years, and how old it is I don't know! But here's the spec (if you can call it that!)

MAKE : Unknown
CPU : 235mhz Pentium MMX
RAM : 32mb

Floppy, CD-ROM, 2x PCMCIA - and thats it!

It appears to have onboard sound but for some reason it refuses to work - keeps saying no sound device installed, and refuses to accept the 3Com LAN ethernet card I fitted to it

Thing is, all I want it to do is play music via Media Player, through the headphones for when I am drumming. Up till now I have only used an old tape player, but it's seen better days, and it would be a lot simpler to rip tracks off CD's and the like to MP3 put em on laptop and use that with my drums - plus it'd be a lot faster just doing a double click to select a track rather than change tape, fast forward or rewind etc....

BUT! I don't know wtf is going on with the sound device

How do I find out what on board sound it has, and what driver I need for it (so I can try and download it and install to see if it works?

If for some reason I don't have any onboard sound then how do I go about getting one I can plug in (if you can do that) that is fairly inexpensive?

I'm also gonna need some sort of signal booster as I doubt the standard output volume is gonna be sufficient.....

I don't really wanna spend a lot as it's not like it'll be used a whole lot for anything other than a glorified iPOD to be honest.... I've been looking at cheapo lappies on ebay but still your looking at over £50 for a shit one...