MC wont wake up to record

so I have bought 2 microphones and neither work properly, the computer recognizes them and might pick up bits and pieces of sound... but not usually. I have gone through the control pannel and checked to make sure the mic isnt muted, etc. HELP I AM GETTING SO IRRITATED:mad::mad:

I have a laptop with Vista x64 and Win 7 x64. Media Center seems to work fine in Vista. It will wake the computer from sleeping when a show is set to record and record it and then go back to sleep. In Windows 7, I can set a show to record, close the lid, putting the computer to sleep,...

Its strange, on a given night I'll have a couple shows set to do a series record (new episodes only) yet when I look in the guide it is not going to record (no red ball). The listing is correct. I could work around this by recording all episodes but that's ridiculous. What's even more amazing is...

Not sure where to post this, but my XP Media Center would wake up from sleep or hibernate to record (sometimes, not always). I can't seem to get Win7 to do this. It sleeps just fine, but will not wake up at the recording time. I have power options set to never automatically sleep - I set it via...

If I schedule a tv recording and put my HTPC to sleep, it fully wakes up to do the unattended recording at the right time but with the display on and everything running rather than in 'Away' mode as I have set up on the same machine under Vista. I used a great little program called MCE Standby to...