rem Check for a working sound-card - exit with 0 if OK, 1 otherwise. set wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:") set scs = wmi.InstancesOf("win32_sounddevice") for each sc in scs set status = sc.Properties_("Status") wscript.Echo(sc.Properties_("Name") + "/" + status) if status = "OK" then wscript.Quit 0 rem normal exit end if next rem No sound card found - exit with status code of 1 wscript.Quit 1