Huh?



"LIQUIDMIND" <LIQUIDMIND@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> WOW PIERRE!!!!!!
>
> THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!!!!!
> I HAVE SIGMATEL TOO, I HAVE CONTACT THEM AND MICROSOFT AND EVEN GATEWAY.
> SPENT HOURS IN TOTALITY JUST TO FIND HOW THE HECK TO ENABLE STEREO MIX
> OPTION
> - WELL JUST AS YOU SAID, WHY IN 2007 WITH HIGH TECH AND EVERYTHING SOME
> CARDS
> ARE LACK OF STEREO OPTIONS, CAUSE THE PROBLEM IS NOT VISTA ITSELF, BUT THE
> COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER SOUND CARDS.
>
> EVEN THOU SOME PEOPLE HERE WERE ABLE TO ENABLE THIS OPTION,
> CONGRATULATIONS
> BY THE WAY, WE WHO HAVE SPENT $$$$ ON NEW PC WITH THE SOUND CARD SIGMATEL
> HAVE TO SIT AND SUFFER.
>
> ANNNNDDDDDDDDDD YES!!! SOME COPYRIGHTS ISSUES ARE ALSO INVOLVED - THEY
> KNOW
> WE CAN RECEORD AUDIO FROM LIVE RADIO AND REEORD ANY LIVE CONCERT OR ANY
> PHONE
> LINE CONVERSATION OR WHATEVER IS GOING THROUGH YOUR PC. THEY ARE LIMITING
> US
> TO MAKE US SPEND MORE AND MORE $$$$$ EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY SPENT $860 ON A
> BRAND NEW T5226 DESKTOP PC WITH VISTA PREMIUM, INTEL VIDEO CARD, PENTIUM D
> 925 DUAL CORE 3.GHZ, 1 GIGARAM, WHICH WINDOWS WHEN BOOTED ALREADY CONSUMES
> MORE THAN 512, AND WITH THE ANTIVIURS AND OTHER DEFAULT RUNNING PROGRAMS,
> WHEN MY COMPUTER IS IDLE, ALREADY IS CONSUMING MORE THAN 70% OF RAM
> MEMORY -
> THIS SUCKSSSs!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> SO ALL THIS IS A WAY OF CONTROL - IF YOU WANT SOME FEATURES YOU HAVE TO
> $$$$$$$$$ PAAYYYYYYYY MORE AND MORE, AND THEY MAKE HOW MUCH, 10 MILLION
> DOLARS A DAY , SHT!!!!!!!!!
>
> WITHOUT THESE OPTIONS I CANT RECORD ANY VIDEO SHOW WITH AUDIO ON A SREAM
> PLAYER, COME ON MICROSOFT - COMPATIBILITY ISSUES? COME ON!!!!!!!!
>
> AAHAA YEAH RIGHT!, MMJUMM
>
> "Pierre" wrote:
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>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>[color=darkred]
>> > Got to control panel, select classic and click on sounds, click on the
>> > recording tab and right mouse button click anywhere in the white panel,
>> > put
>> > a check mark in "show disabled devices " Stereo mix is disabled as a
>> > default, just re-enable it and you're good to go.
>> > Thanks Vista...[/color]
>>
>> I have a Dell Dimension 9200 with Vista Home Premium and a Sigmatel
>> integrated audio module.
>>
>> I am mad with frustration about this lack of audio functions. I feel
>> betrayed and defrauded. I spent hours talking with support technicians at
>> Dell's. Even more hours reading countless posts on hundreds of forums.
>>
>> The solution given up here does not work on my system. My version of
>> Vista
>> is French.
>> The two boxes are checked but nowhere can I see a Stereo Mix option (even
>> grayed).
>>
>> From the beginning I find misunderstanding. It looks like if the
>> technicians
>> at Dell's never heard about recording an internal audio signal. Finally
>> they
>> referred me to Microsoft where I was returned to Dell unless I accept to
>> pay
>> a 79 $ an hour fee for help (without any promises that my problem would
>> be
>> solved).
>>
>> Who could imagine that one could buy a computer in 2007 with the latest
>> technology and that this computer would be "crippled" compared to an
>> older
>> one? Stereo mix (or waveout) is a function I have for years on all my
>> computers whatever the OS or the sound card. I think that Dell should at
>> least put it clear on their advertisements that their new computers are
>> lacking these important functions.
>>
>> On the contrary, they seem to play innocence and put on me the burden of
>> having bought a computer without asking all the questions. When you buy a
>> car, would you ask if it comes with a brake pedal?
>>
>> Right now it would help me to know who is to blame for this mess. (Yes
>> this
>> is a huge mess. Just Google "vista waveout" and you will see thousands of
>> desperate users)
>>
>> Is it Vista? Is it the manufacturer (Dell, Sony, Gateway)? Or is it
>> Sigmatel
>> (the audio module)?
>>
>> And what is the reason for all this? It looks too big to be only a mild
>> omission. Is it possible that it is related with DMR and the copyright
>> phobia
>> in which the music recording industry seems to have fallen?
>>
>> Pierre Cloutier
>> Montreal
>>
>>
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