Hi, I'm New To Linux And A Friend Told Me That If I Needed Help With Linux, I Should Come Here. Anyways, When I Tried Testing Out The CD Player On Linux SUSE 10.0 For AMD64 And I Can't Hear Anything...

I Use An AMD64 2800+ 1.80 GHz And My Sound Card Is A Turtle Beach Riviera 5.1 Channel Sound Card And My Speakers Are A Cyber Acoustics CA-4400 5-Piece Surround Sound Speaker System.

I Would Like Help A.S.A.P. If Anybody Isn't Busy.

do any sound effects work?

You need to use digital audio extraction if you do not have an CD audio cable connecting from your CD-ROM drive to the sound card.

its okay, SUSE destroyed the Boot record on my computer and i tried to fix it, so i tried to format my hard drives, but i still had the same problem (Grub Loader Error 17 & 21), so right now im kinda screwed

screwed in what way?

you just need to install a new bootloader.

Try LILO. (click on the Booting header duing install. Right under it before you click, you should see GRUB and some info on it). GRUB is famous for giving some problems, and LILO, being an older project, tends to have more of this stuff worked out, but more people still seem to like GRUB for some reason, and it isn't all that bad.

Grub will be more reliable if /boot is on a ext2/ext3 filesystem. I think SUSE defaults to ReiserFS which is ok, but gets corrupted during use if certain mount options are not used.

GRUB is better than LILO because GRUB can be easily configured without running it. Also GRUB can be stored on a FAT partition which makes it easier when dual booting with Windows and Linux. GRUB is not dependent on System.map for storage devices, so it uses a userspace file to specify what devices the user can setup to boot to. The user has the ability to add devices or change the names of the devices. GRUB is more friendly with a filesystem like XFS than LILO. I have tried LILO and GRUB. GRUB is more friendly to the user than LILO is. LILO can bring out a fool in the person. I am not starting a boot loader war. LILO has met its match. My college uses GRUB.

SuSE and Debian both default to Reiser, and I have had no real problems out of either relating to filesystem-related issues (short of Debian being a bit stingy, not detecting Windows). While I, myself, have had some trouble out of GRUB, which was easily fixed by switching to LILO (especially with Fedora/Red Hat), I say you should try 'em both at least once and decide which one you like better, or even if you care which one is being used.

Heres An Update...

While Trying To Format My Hard Drives So I Could Re-Install Windows, I Somehow Managed To Completely Fry My Motherboard And CPU At Once.

That is strange because software does not do that. Only the power supply or a static charged user can do that. If you bought a cheap power supply or used whatever that comes with your computer case, there is a higher chance that the motherboard can get fried. Though there are exceptions. If AMD has certified your power supply, then blame AMD.

BTW, do not forget to buy a new surge surppressor.