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mic does not work
I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The
computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. |
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On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:47:08 -0700 Being sentient I replied to this
then JonZ wrote : I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. Have you,"Muted" the mic on,"Playback"? You need to do this if you want to record. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html remove obvious to reply Free songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The
computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. Check Control Panel - Sounds & Multimedia - Audio and make sure that the Preferred Device in the Sound Recording drop-down menu is a sensible one. HTH. CK |
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I had a similar problem with an HP computer and had to send it back to the
factory for them to fix it because I tried everything they suggested. You have probably done all you can do. "JonZ" wrote in message ... I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. |
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On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:47:08 -0700, JonZ wrote:
I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. I've recently had a similar problem with the onboard audio on my MSI E7505 motherboard using WinXP. It detects the sound card just fine, installs the right driver, nothing is muted neither in playback or recording controls, it's set for the right device, the microphone is the selected input device, I've tried multiple microphones, multiple recording programs, reinstalled the drivers, tried witching to various IRQs and so forth, tried various driver updates and alternative drivers, but the bottom line is that it simply does not work. I would suspect in my case, and possibly yours, that either the on board sound controller is simply broken, or sound recording isn't actually supported even though it has the input jacks (ie generic hardware that wasn't implemented into the mother boards design properly). The one thing you might try, which I haven't yet tried either, is to try and test it under a different OS, like maybe fire up a copy of Knoppix or an earlier version of Windows. It may be some sort of driver compatibility problem as far as the OS is concerned. *shrugs* PS - Is anyone besides me just sick of the generic, monkey induced, retard responses? I mean, honestly, if someone is having problems with their microphone don't make a complete ASS out of yourself and just ASSume that they didn't do something so earth shatteringly ****ing simple as unmute the gawd damn volume control. *rolls eyes* Try and wake the **** up and remember where you're at, this isn't a ****ing AOL help desk fer cripe sake. -- Onideus Mad Hatter mhm ¹ x ¹ http://www.backwater-productions.net |
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"Onideus Mad Hatter" wrote in message news7b6h01dd3ec6l34rkhqqh6lijudhpg2tl@farfoos... On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:47:08 -0700, JonZ wrote: I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. I've recently had a similar problem with the onboard audio on my MSI E7505 motherboard using WinXP. It detects the sound card just fine, installs the right driver, nothing is muted neither in playback or recording controls, it's set for the right device, the microphone is the selected input device, I've tried multiple microphones, multiple recording programs, reinstalled the drivers, tried witching to various IRQs and so forth, tried various driver updates and alternative drivers, but the bottom line is that it simply does not work. I would suspect in my case, and possibly yours, that either the on board sound controller is simply broken, or sound recording isn't actually supported even though it has the input jacks (ie generic hardware that wasn't implemented into the mother boards design properly). The one thing you might try, which I haven't yet tried either, is to try and test it under a different OS, like maybe fire up a copy of Knoppix or an earlier version of Windows. It may be some sort of driver compatibility problem as far as the OS is concerned. *shrugs* PS - Is anyone besides me just sick of the generic, monkey induced, retard responses? I mean, honestly, if someone is having problems with their microphone don't make a complete ASS out of yourself and just ASSume that they didn't do something so earth shatteringly ****ing simple as unmute the gawd damn volume control. *rolls eyes* Try and wake the **** up and remember where you're at, this isn't a ****ing AOL help desk fer cripe sake. -- Onideus Mad Hatter mhm ¹ x ¹ http://www.backwater-productions.net Gees I hope you don't get upset with my observations "mad hatter" !! My XP was working beautifully for yonks until I installed one of MS updates. Not sure which but it killed my sound completely. Took 3 installs before I realized what caused it. No more SP 1 updates for me!! I did the security patches but those SP updates mostly include latest drivers or something. Anyway.......... that's my idea. Fixed my problem. BruceM |
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ProfGene wrote:
I had a similar problem with an HP computer and had to send it back to the factory for them to fix it because I tried everything they suggested. You have probably done all you can do. Except that he also switched to a separate sound card so it's unlikely to be an original equipment problem. Frankly, with the problem occurring on two different sound hardware configurations it really does seem likely it's some kind of confusion on how to set up the software in order to 'hear' the microphone or he's using microphones incompatible with common sound cards. "JonZ" wrote in message ... I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. |
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"ProfGene" wrote in message ... I had a similar problem with an HP computer and had to send it back to the factory for them to fix it because I tried everything they suggested. You have probably done all you can do. "JonZ" wrote in message ... I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. You know it is possible that the mike is bad ? |
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PWY wrote:
"ProfGene" wrote in message ... I had a similar problem with an HP computer and had to send it back to the factory for them to fix it because I tried everything they suggested. You have probably done all you can do. "JonZ" wrote in message ... I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. You know it is possible that the mike is bad ? Could be the wrong type of mic too, especially if he 'borrowed' one from a cassette recorder but there's no way to know from the description given. |
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"JonZ" wrote in message ... I am unable to get the microphone to work on a a Win 2k system. The computer has a Soyo motherboard with onboard audio. I checked all the software controls to see if they were turned down or muted and they were ok. I used a couple different mics and a webcam with mic and none worked. Next I installed an Aureal soundcard after disabling the onboard audio in bios. All of the drivers were installed by Win 2k and no problems showing in device manager. The external speakers were connected to the soundcard and also the mic to the same soundcard and still unable to hear the mic!! (The speakers work when playing audio files). Please help going crazy. What sort of sound setup did you do? When I was putting my last system together it would support up to surround sound (5 speaker) but the sound ports were reassigned as to what they did. IE mic is center speaker line in is right (or front) output is Left (or rear). %.1 standard also changes settings of ports to. (i use ports as generic description of jacks) Larry |
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