Mic Not Working

iKettles · 25 Feb 2008 at 16:23

Got my new motherboard on Saturday and I've just realised my microphone isn't working. The correct sound drivers are installed as sound is working fine and I've scanned for hardware changes using device manager yet I get no sound on sound recorder or Teamspeak. If I unmute the mic when I speak into it I can hear it through my headphones but not through sound recorder. The mic works fine on another PC. What's going on?

iKettles · 25 Feb 2008 at 16:27

Admiral Huddy said:
What motherboard did you have?

eVGA 650i, now on an MSI P35 Neo2-FR.

iKettles · 25 Feb 2008 at 16:29

Admiral Huddy said:
You reinstalled windows?

Couldn't seem to be able to boot from disk but that issue's sorted. I haven't reinstalled Windows but all previous drivers have been uninstalled.

iKettles · 25 Feb 2008 at 16:37

Admiral Huddy said:
I'm wondering if the old chipset was switching. Did you use NVSWAP?

It's recomended that you reinstall windows on installing a new motherboard. Not only for licencing issues but for the stability of windows. You can use any copy of windows providing you have a correct key.

You might get away with it if you use driver cleaner to clean out any left overs of uninstalling chipset drivers and clean the CAB.

NVSWAP? Nope. I may just reinstall Windows, everything is backed up. Also good to see another Chelmsfordian :B

iKettles · 25 Feb 2008 at 20:09

Reformatted a few hours ago but been copying stuff over from backup hard drive. I'm trying to install the integrated sound card drivers (the same ones I used before) however it's asking for wksproxy.ax. I can't find it on the x64 disk. What should I do?

iKettles · 25 Feb 2008 at 22:23

Finally got the drivers installed after having to do a repair because after installing SP2 Windows was throwing an error at me saying it can't verify my license key. The mic still isn't working

iKettles · 26 Feb 2008 at 16:14

Admiral Huddy said:
Is this a retail copy of Windows or an OEM copy?

OEM. Can I also add that the "Mic Volume" section in volume control is greyed out aswell as CD Volume and Line Volume.

iKettles · 26 Feb 2008 at 16:46

Admiral Huddy said:
Well strictly speaking, you would have to re-activate your XP since you have installed a new motherboard.

You say in a previous post that you "resored stuff over the top from a previous backup." If you install a new mobo with a different chipset, then you need fresh drivers incuding sound. You have already admitted this. Basically, you must start from scratch install with new drivers. The new chipset drivers will contain the onboard sound drivers. The only thing you should be restoring is your user data.

I'm sure this is driver corruption.

I only restored My Documents, no drivers. The driver CD that came with the motherboard doesn't support 64bit so I downloaded drivers off the MSI website. Sound is working fine, just no mic.

iKettles · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:32

Admiral Huddy said:
I've just done some googling and it appears there are problems with front mic. Try downloading a previouis version of the chipset drivers and see what happens.
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=utility&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1261

There's no previous versions of the drivers. Can I also add that I can hear in sound recorder when I tap the mic and with it unmuted I can hear myself talking into it through my headphones but nothing in sound recorder.

iKettles · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:00

I've already said I've reinstalled windows.