oops, wrong key,
Anyway what I said before
Start>settings>control panel>sounds and audio devices
On the first page check place volume icon on the taskbar if it's not already
checked and make sure the mute box is not checked.
Click the voice tab along the top
click on the volume button by the microphone icon
This is recoding level control, although you audio device driver may also
provide a different version.
Click on options then properties and it will show a list of all the
different sliders possible for your setup, this varies a bit. check the
boxes and the respective sliders will appear.... Obviously Mic is a priority
here
So okay that and look at the sliders, remember this is the recording control
and you only have one input so make sure mic is checked and turn it all the
way up.
Go back to options and select advanced controls
If an advanced button appears under the mic slider click on it there may be
a mic boost setting there and you can turn it on.
Now click on the volume button by the speaker icon back in the original
properties sheet and you will get a similar looking set of sliders. You may
have to go to options then properties and choose playback. Make sure mic is
checked in the list here too, Hit okay. A different set of controls should
appear These are for playback, ie the settings here determine what channels
come out of the speakers.
Again you can click on options and select properties to see what channels
you system has and again check the boxes to put up a slider for that
channel. Notice that while the recording panel checkboxes are mutually
exclusive because they select, the playback panel boxes are the opposite,
you can mute a number of channels.
On the playback panel turn the master (Left) control up over half way and
the mic control all the way up, can you hear yourself through the speakers
now? You may not want to leave it set that way but if you can't hear
yourself now then maybe we have things plugged in the wrong holes somewhere.
Also look back at the first properties sheet, if the "Advanced" button next
to the microphone is not grayed out you may have a mic booster under there,
if there is use mic boost and see if that helps.
If you still get nothing out of the mic at all then we have a hardware or
driver problem I think. There may be slight differences between what I say
and what you actually see due to differences in sound cards and the fact
that I am trying to do this with W2003 which is a bit different in places to
XP.
Please post back and let us know if you get any sound and if not check
what's plugged in where and also let us know how many jack sockets are on
the back of the machine and what sound card it is if you can.
Charlie
