Using headphones/headset?
The mic setting may be right, but is the headphone jack enabled?

"richataimni" <richataimni@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have got a very strange problem and would really appreciate if someone
> can
> help me out with it. I recently bought a dell Inspiron 1525 which came
> with
> WIndows Vista home premium. everything is running fine on the machine and
> also the media - Movies, songs, voice recording etc are all running fine.
>
>
>
> The only problem is with voice chatting on chat messengers like Gtalk,
> yahoo, windows live. The chat browsers seem to work perfect except that I
> cant hear what other persons speak. They can listen to my voice, but I
> cant
> hear what they say. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling these chat
> browsers
> a few times but it gives me the same problem. There is no error message as
> such. And as I said, I can listen to music, I can see movies with songs on
> the same PC but I cant hear what other people say while voice chatting. I
> heard there was some Codec issue with Yahoo messenger and tried installing
> the tsp_codec as an administrator but even that did not help. I installed
> the
> latest Gtalk, Yahoo messenger ( as well as Windows messenger Live but
> still
> there is the same problem. I dont know what is wrong. If my PC speakers or
> audio drivers were bad I would not be able to listen to music also but I
> can
> hear songs record voice etc. Its only when I try to voice chat with other
> people I cant hear what they say. They hear me pitch perfect.
>
>
>
> I would request someone to please help me out with this issue if there is
> a
> known problem or resolution.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
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