Did you go to Control Panel > Sound > Recording to make sure the
microphone is set as the default recording device? Then did you go on to
Levels to make sure that the microphone volume slider is turned up?

Daze
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Priestess turanda wrote:[color=blue]
> hi!thanks for the reply.anyways,yeah,this is the same system that I have
> previously installed vista with. my mic didn't work too at first before
> but I
> eventually got it to work.only,I already forgot how I did that.
>
>
>
> "Daze N. Knights" <Daze@Microdot.dot> wrote in message
> news:eHFbQP5eHHA.3648@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Am I correctly understanding you to say that you previously had Vista
>> installed on the same system with the microphone working properly?
>>
>> Daze
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>>
>> Priestess turanda wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> hi! I've just re-installed vista in my hp pavilion dv1000 and just
>>> like the first time I installed it,I totally had no audio but like
>>> what I did before, I got it to work just fine after installing the
>>> Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High
>>> Definition Audio and the Conexant High Definition Audio Driver for XP.
>>> Unfortunately, I cant remember what I did before to get my embedded
>>> mic to work.Can only recall that I went to safe mode and enabled
>>> somethin there but cant figure out exactly what it was.
>>> Anyways, I right-clicked the sound icon in my taskbar and under the
>>> recording tab,it showed that the "Sum" device had been chosen by
>>> windows as default. I tried to disable that and enabled the
>>> "Microphone" instead but no luck at all.Also there's no level meter
>>> at the right side of the device as well.
>>> Please help me.I really have no idea at all whatsoever about what to
>>> do next...thanks![/color][/color]
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