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kordova
kordova
I dug out an old microphone from a Gateway the office I work at bought 4 years ago and brought it with me to school for some reason I have yet to come to. Anyway, my girlfriends roommate wanted to borrow it for some reason or other and as such I lent it to her to do as she pleased. Evidently she couldn''t get it to work which I found rather peculiar for a number of reasons. I had a few minutes so I tinkered about, restarted the laptop, made sure it was in the mic port, tried various sound-capturing apps (sound recorder amongst them) to no avail. As, in my experience, microphones as standard issue as this one pretty much always work plug and play I presumed that there must be something wrong with the mic itself. As I sit here however, I find that it works perfectly fine as soon as I plug it in the port, overriding the built in mic. She is running windows xp home ed. which can tell if you''ve undocked from a port replicator so surely it would know if a mic was plugged in...I''m not really sure what to do from here...any suggestions on a course of action are appreciated greatly...thanks ahead.
bishop_pass
bishop_pass
I would think that upon discovery of the mic working to no avail that one would of course be of the mind to make the assertion that there could be something wrong with the mic, thus causing you to come to action with the goal in mind of rectifying the situation through analysis and trial and error, which in turn would possibly provide you with observational data leading one to conclude a more specific problem with regard to the problematic situation that you have encoutered which is confoundering both you and your girlfriend. Through judicious application of above said processes and following through on an inclination to post your problem here on Gamedev, one might in fact ultimately solve one''s dilemna.
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Waverider
Waverider
So basically you''re saying he should, like, buy a new one or something?

Or maybe the mic jacks have different specs?
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kordova
kordova
ummm...it works on my laptop, and I was wondering if perhaps not all mics are necessarily plug and play (or rather it isnt standard to make a computer support such)...umm..yeah...anyway...scratches head...
Michalson
Michalson
All mics are "plug and play", the most likely problem is simple: the microphone input is muted. To solve this right click the volume control in the task tray and click "Open Volume Controls" (or double click it, your choice). Go to Options->Properies, and clicking the "Recording" radio button. In the checkbox list below ensure that Line-in and Microphone are checked. With the Recording radio button still selected click Ok and the Volume Control dialog should change to show the Input (recording) devices rather than the output devices. Now make sure the microphone and line in controls are not muted and are turned up.
kordova
kordova
Tried that...but thanks, I can''t help but think it''s a hardware problem as I''ve checked all volumes, the mic works and XP seems to handle just about anything else that comes up. I was just wondering if there were any issues I had never before encountered that may have come into play. Thanks again.

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