Mixer/Sound Card Help!!!

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Guys and gals, I'm having quite a lot of trouble. I know this is the place to get help, so please help me out! I'm running my Shure SM 57 into a Behringer 1202 Eurorack and then I'm running from the main outs into the line in on my soundcard that came with my computer. The problem is this. My levels look good on the mixer and sound good when I listen on the headphones on the mixers headphone jack. Like I said beforeI have the Main Out running into my line in jack on soundcard. The problem is that no sound is getting to my soundcard. I switched and plugged into the microphone input jack on my computer instead and things went all crazy. What is going on here? Is it my sound card? I listen on the mixer and everything sounds fine but then nothing is getting through and nothing is muted on my computer. Is there a knob or switch I'm not using correctly on the mixer? Please help!
 
In my experience the Line In on typical consumer cards is often muted by default when it's installed.

The Mic In is useless for this because it's a mono input and has a preamp built into it, since it's expecting a tiny signal from an electret condenser mic, not a line level signal, which is far larger.

You didn't mention how you have the sound card's output routed.

Are you sure the Line In's not muted? There are independent controls for each device on the soundcard (usually that's the Line In, Mic In, the analog signal from a CD-ROM drive, the WAV device, and the MIDI synth, if there is one), one for the output stream (labeled playback, whic is a bit of a misnomer when you route the Line In through it) and the input stream (labeled recording).
 
Everything on the sound card used to work fine. I recorded last week and all was well. But now I tried to record today and things just aren't working out. The line in is not muted as far as I can tell by going to control panel and looking at my sound audio devices. Any other ideas?
 
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