Audio input control (...or lack of it)

Hi there,

I have just taken far longer than I should have to record a simple 3 audio track project in Cakewalk PA9 (Vista laptop). The main problem was inability to monitor an already recorded audio track while recording another audio track.

I suppose this could be fixed by changing some settings, either in the soundcard (Realtek in-built in the laptop) or in Cakewalk itself. I read older threads mentioning stuff like "driver mode", but could not find such setting either in Cakewalk or in the Windows configuration interface for the Realtek sound card. Anyone knows of anything else I could try?

Thanks,

A.Lower