Mic Not Working

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iKettles

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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?
 
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.
 
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.
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NVSWAP? Nope. I may just reinstall Windows, everything is backed up. Also good to see another Chelmsfordian :B
 
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?
 
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 :@
 
I dont know if this will help but will give it a shot anyway. On my asus P5K-E the onboard sound didn't detect my mic either. However, each time I plugged in the mic to the mic port a box appeared (the soundmax thingy) saying "what did you just plug in".

I was sure I was selecting the "mic" selection each time, anyway after trying it a few times it worked, but I disabled the popup box asking what I plugged in and even though I hadn't unplugged it, when I rebooted the mic didn't work so eventually found I had to re-enable the box in the soundmax folder in program files.

Hope this helps.
 
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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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
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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.
 
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.
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exactly what i was going to say. for me 9/10 times windows needs to be reinstalled with the new motherboard.

if you can and its safe to do so go ahead and do it.

or at least use a partion or other hard disk to do it.
 
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