mike not working... (Ultimate)

[maya]

my microphone (top one on this pg,
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/webcam_communications/microphones/&cl=us,en)
won't work with Vista...

I tested it on various USB ports in the machine.. tested it at work
today, on my XP machine, it works fine..

here are screenshots of sequence of what I did to configure and test it,
www.mayacove.com/mic/
Also ran a test on Skype's website, didn't work..

so problem here is definitely Vista.. have exhausted all ideas at this
point.. am on Vista Ultimate...

thank you very much...

 

[John Inzer]

my microphone (top one on this pg,
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/webcam_communications/microphones/&cl=us,en)
won't work with Vista...

I tested it on various USB ports in the machine.. tested it at work
today, on my XP machine, it works fine..

here are screenshots of sequence of what I did to configure and test
it, www.mayacove.com/mic/
Also ran a test on Skype's website, didn't work..

so problem here is definitely Vista.. have exhausted all ideas at this
point.. am on Vista Ultimate...

thank you very much...

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Just wondering...have you installed the most
current software for your sound card?

I have Realtek High Definition Audio and my
microphone quit working...I tried every setting
change I could think of and it made no difference...
installing the following update cleared it up.

RealTek Software: Drivers & Utilities
High Definition Audio Codecs
http://tinyurl.com/fls9e

Maybe there are similar updates for your
sound card.

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[Ian Betts]

my microphone (top one on this pg,
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/webcam_communications/microphones/&cl=us,en)
won't work with Vista...

I tested it on various USB ports in the machine.. tested it at work today,
on my XP machine, it works fine..

here are screenshots of sequence of what I did to configure and test it,
www.mayacove.com/mic/
Also ran a test on Skype's website, didn't work..

so problem here is definitely Vista.. have exhausted all ideas at this
point.. am on Vista Ultimate...

thank you very much...

Very good you followed the sequence and loaded the mike, but did you tell
Vista you wanted to use it. In the control panel click Sounds and each tab.
You need to select head set or pod mike.

 

[maya]

=================================
Just wondering...have you installed the most
current software for your sound card?

I have Realtek High Definition Audio and my
microphone quit working...I tried every setting
change I could think of and it made no difference...
installing the following update cleared it up.

RealTek Software: Drivers & Utilities
High Definition Audio Codecs
http://tinyurl.com/fls9e

Maybe there are similar updates for your
sound card.

well, my machine is a brand-new machine with what I'm sure is a
sound-card that can handle a simple microphone (esp since all other
audio, DVD, etc. working fine... sound card I have:
On-board High Definition 7.1 Channel Audio with dual S/PDIF out)

thank you very much..

 

[maya]

well, my machine is a brand-new machine with what I'm sure is a
sound-card that can handle a simple microphone (esp since all other
audio, DVD, etc. working fine... sound card I have:
On-board High Definition 7.1 Channel Audio with dual S/PDIF out)

thank you very much..

finally solved microphone/Ultimate problems...

I had to go to Advanced Speech Options and click "Advanced" tab, select
mic from "Use Preferred Device" to "Use this Device" and selected the
mike in the drop down menu.

all this after renaming mike from default "Microphone" to something else
(in the little screen where you see all microphones and it says
"configure" at the bottom.. (personalize > sounds > recording), as is
recommended in MS/Vista website (in one of the posts here,
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/search.aspx?=&qu=microphone,
I don't know anymore which one..)

THEN I had to do something similar in Skype....

my gosh.... in Windows 2000 I didn't have to do ANYTHING, just
connected the mike to a USB port, that was it..

thank you very much to all for your help...

 

[Charlie Tame]

Very good you followed the sequence and loaded the mike, but did you
tell Vista you wanted to use it. In the control panel click Sounds and
each tab. You need to select head set or pod mike.

FWIW Skype seems to do something funny to microphones. Skype has a
setting "Let Skype manage microphone" or something similar and if you
change this the Mic setting goes beyond yours or any other control until
you let Skype have it back, then it is low because Skype overcompensates.


Tried removing Skype and all sorts of things but I've given up and now
if I want to use Skype it's either XP or Debian. It's like there a
control in Vista that Skype used to turn it down but once that is done
there's no control to bring it back, the ones you can see and get at
refuse to do anything

 

[Charlie Tame]

finally solved microphone/Ultimate problems...

I had to go to Advanced Speech Options and click "Advanced" tab, select
mic from "Use Preferred Device" to "Use this Device" and selected the
mike in the drop down menu.

all this after renaming mike from default "Microphone" to something else
(in the little screen where you see all microphones and it says
"configure" at the bottom.. (personalize > sounds > recording), as is
recommended in MS/Vista website (in one of the posts here,
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/search.aspx?=&qu=microphone,
I don't know anymore which one..)

THEN I had to do something similar in Skype....

my gosh.... in Windows 2000 I didn't have to do ANYTHING, just
connected the mike to a USB port, that was it..

thank you very much to all for your help...

And thank YOU for posting the solution you found, this could help lots
of other people

 

[maya]

And thank YOU for posting the solution you found, this could help lots
of other people

you're welcome... this is one purpose of usenet, no????

-maya