lo all
Ive been having a lot of problems with this pc and microphones, I've now tried two different mic's and neither work. So i come to you, in a state of despair. Can you guys help me?
m0ds had a go at helping over msn, but with no avail, so far the thing's ive tried are:
-messing around with the volume control function in win98
-using windows sound recorder and putting it on record and then changing what port the mic is plugged into at the back (to see if it picks up the mic).
umm
-the mic has no self volume control so it cant be that
and the mic is basicly brand new.
can i get some help? Im stumped on what to do it seems like nuttin's working.
cheers in advance
if you have a device such as a midi cable or joypad, or even joypad attached to a midi cable, disconnect it and try again, i had the exact same problem when i had my midi cable plugged into the soundcard and my joypad attached to it, when i disconnected the joypad from the cable, the microphone worked.
if it still doesn't work your soundcard might be bolloxed...
i only jus got a new sound card a while back, cus the other one was fucked.
i just plugged the new one in and installed it, should i have taken out the old one or somthing?
ill have a look to see if i have a midi cable thingy ma jig
cheers boyd
*edit* all i got plugged into the back of the pc is madem, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
i tried recording without the speakers in but it didnt effect it.
hmmmm
Make sure you have the PC power turned on
ha haha hahahaha ha, im sure its funny ::)
:P
Oh and make sure the mic dont look like mine.. cos if it does uve been ripped off (If u haven't heard the story of my mic.. nvm...)
have you tried going into Edit, then Audio Properties (in sound recorder this is) and setting the preferred device for recording to your soundcard?
also, if you go to Audio Properties in windows, and take the microphone off of mute and set the volume (if the microphone bit isn't there go to Properties and enable it) and then speak, do you hear anything?
try setting the volume to max and leaving mute off, then try recording again, or try some other recording software or software that lets you use a microphone and see if it works then...
boyd, its ont the sound recorder because ive trie testing it in counterstrike. Thats the main reason i want the mic to work, for cs, well that and game sound effects ... BOYD :p
i tried the things you said with no avail. Any other idea's?
Quote from: OSC on Sat 15/05/2004 12:46:34
i only jus got a new sound card a while back, cus the other one was fucked.
i just plugged the new one in and installed it, should i have taken out the old one or somthing?
I'd definitely suggest getting rid of your old sound card - it might create all sorts of weird hardware related problems.
meiz, apperently te problem is a power shortage, so maybe this is caused by having two sound cards, well i doubt its helping.
i cant remmeber which ones which now. ill go chech.
umm. be back after the pc's back together.
Why the hell would you keep two sound cards plugged in? Are you retarted?
LGM... An avatar like that, and you're asking if someone else is retarded? ^_-
What is this avatar you speak of, woman!?
i actually used to run a pc with two soundcards, one ISA SB16 compatible, and an SB128pci, when i was in windows the SB128 would get used, and when in dos the ISA card was used, even in a dos window, so technically having two cards is possible...
well yes, but somehow I doubt he has a setup like that.
bah im getting treated like a n00b. one sound card is weird, i cant find it. I think its prolly intergrated in the motherboard or somthing. I dunno. So i just bodged the other one in.
ah fuck it i give up
then you'll need to go into your bios and disable onboard sound
Quote from: BOYD1981 on Sat 15/05/2004 15:38:10
then you'll need to go into your bios and disable onboard sound
Yep. Done this before.
Onboard sound cards suck, they're like, this big |Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, | and they'll have sound written on them or something. Just hammer a small nail into the chip if the BIOS thing doesn't work out.
QuoteOnboard sound cards suck, they're like, this big |Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, | and they'll have sound written on them or something.
Yes! Yes! I have AC97' compatible card mounted and It's actually not compatible with anything!
- On windows 98, DirectShow fails
Some games produce double voice, like same sound plays TWICE (Battle realms, Interstate 82', etc), It's damn annoying (Yes, siYes, Sir! On my waOn my way, sir! We're undeWe're under attack!) Argh!
- On windows ME, DirectSound Acceleration fails and AGS games come with silence, unless I set default sound device to Wave mapper.
Double voice here too.
- On Windows XP, It does some sound, but no DOS game is able to produce any sound.
Doublevoice games won't start at all.
- Mic cracks and fizzles all the time. There's just some heavenly days where everything works. It's totally random.
I think I'll try shbaz' hammer-chip-nail-technique.
As WinXP worked most well with this shitty onboard chip, I'd suggest OSC to try a Windows change.
Check under control panel > multimedia if you can use microphone boost. If so, turn it on! Some cards make mic silent when it's not boosted.
Check under volume controls/advanced/recording and check microphone there. Then try to alter it's volume.
Since no one seems to be offering any help, and *some* people seem to simply be mocking you, let me see if I can sort you out:
1: Open your volume controls by clicking on the small icon in the task bar (lower left hand side of the screen on my computer)
2: in the window that pops up, goto options-->properties
3: in the next window that pops up, check recording and hit OK
4 this should bring up something that looks like a mixer with check boxes at the bottom and volume sliders across the face. Make sure that the Mic input is checked and that the volume level is up. once thats set, close the volume properties and record away!
C.
P.S. LGM: Many pro musicians and producers have multipal soundcards in their computers to up the number of inputs and outputs. Hell M Audio sound cards a designed to be chained together like that.
Hmm, I dunno what the problem is in your case, but up until recently I couldn't get my mic to work after 2 reinstalls of windows. I turns out the problem was very silly actually. In my windows (xp, maybe this applies to other too), the computer thinks the ports in the sound card are all for loudspeakers, because it think there are 6 of them. try opening the C-media mixer or whatever, and check in the options wether it's set to recognise 6 loudpeakers or 2.
The C-media mixer is always in the taskbar, near the clock, on startup. Otherwise, I think it's in the C:\WINDOWS folder. :)
Yes, Ginny, that's a damn fine point. Now I remember having same problem once too. C-Media or Xear3D mixers lets you choose between 2,4 and 6 channels. setting them to 2 channels solved mic problem, assigning one port to microphone! Microphone +20db boost can also be selected there.
if i know what oyur on about then i allways close that thing at startup. Ill restart the pc and have a go.
And thanks c lek, i really am starting to get the impression in not wanted around here.
*edit tried it and it didnt work*
I had tried the windoows sound recorder before and it did not work, So I looked for one on the internet. It is called i-sound. It is a trial, so it cannot record past 1 min. 40 sec.
Acually I didbefore but then I had to ctrl alt delete to stop the program cause it would not exit.
http://www.mp3towav.org/i-Sound-WMA-MP3-Recorder-Professional/
There are others at the site, but I have not tried them.
Ok, there may be one more thing.. I used to close the mixer too, but maybe that's not a good idea, so don't close it, and make sure than when you see the "Vol" tab and the "Rec" tab on the mixer, the microphone icon is blue. It's a bit hard to explain in words, but that may be it. :)
If not, maybe there's a more complicated problem.
I didn't mean to be mean to you.. I just figured that was kindof stupid if you knowingly had 2 PCI Soundcards in your computer. But seeing as it's a on-board, I take back what I said.
And to Leks, I know some musicians have 2 soundcards or more, because they need them. But somehow I don't think OSC is a die-hard DJ Musicican thingamabobber.
Did you try the BIOS yet?
call me n00b, but i dont get what you mean by bios? they're the thingy's which tell the system what to do rite? So how od i access them?
cheers for the reply tho lgm.
to enter the BIOS, restart your computer, and on the screen it might say something like press a certain key to enter the BIOS. I can't remember what keys are used to enter mine, but you can enter the BIOS right after the computer is starting.Ã, On some computers, you might have to hold down delete or something like that.
sorry i can't be much of a help.Ã, :(
edit: this may only work on first startup, because i just restarted my computer and couldn't do it.
The BIOS is basically a tiny OS built onto your motherboard chip that is used to modify Motherboards settings for various support reasons.
To access it, you usually press down and hold F8 or F2 or Delete at startup. If you know anything about GUI's in DOS, then you should be fine. Most BIOS's are straightforward.
Goodluck
well the bios thing wasnt for me, so i disabled the sound card through the control panal. Every time on startup it says new hardware detected and half of my sounds werent working. So i did the hardware thing, and windows searched for the best driver. And look whats happened no sound! No midi sound and wmp has no sound and with games like foa, the speach doesnt work.
err help :-\
this is seriously f**ked up, my whole pc's going crazy. ahh i give up. Im just guna burn all my important stuf to a cd and get a new pc.
looks like its e-bay for me
You're THAT rich to just go buy a new PC like that? wow..
Hehe rich, i wish. Nah ive been needing a new pc for aaages. its 5 years old after all. And i can get this upgrade, everything new apart from harddrive, gfxcard, cd and floppy all for the lowlow price of £114
tehee, know people ;)
Or, you could format and reinstall windows.. But if it's so cheap to get an update and you feel it's time, then good for you! I love getting new computer updates, even when it's not really significant :).
The bios is a tricky thing to work with really.. you can screw stuff up if you go in there clicking on just anything. Usually though there will be a menu item that brings you to a list of stuff you can enable/disable and the onboard sound card should be in there. There may be two menu items like that actually, depending on the BIOS.