built in mic not working

[Kimlou]

My microphone was working fine with vista installed, after clean-installing windows 7, it stopped working. All my drivers are up to date ( I guess) after scanning with third party software. Anyone, please help me!

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Hi Kimlou,

Please fill out your System Specs as completely as possible so we can better assist you.

Cheers,

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[polarbear]

System specs would really help... In short you can try DriverMax to possible locate the needed driver required... GL

 

[kheesan]

try realtek "Vista_Win7_R249" downloaded from majorgeeks.com. My guess is that a realtek driver is required instead of a standard high defination audio driver.

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Hi Kimlou,

You could try going here, selecting "Windows 7 (64-bit)" and "Sound" from the dropdown menus, and clicking the Conexant Audio Driver. Let me know if that one works for you.

Cheers,

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[Kimlou]

yes, it worked, thank you very much.

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Certainly, glad you got it fixed that way Let us know if you need anything else.

Cheers,

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[Kimlou]

As part of learning, I also tried to install realtek,but did not go in. When I checked in the device manager, the realtek was not there, but in the programs and features. I tried several times both in safe and normal mode. May be it is not compatible, I am not sure. How about if I want to upgrade my sound drivers (that you gave it to me). I found the more recent driver(conexant hermosa 4.98.9.0), I tried to installed it, but said "can not find the device" or something. I appreciate so much if you can help me in my learning.

Sincerely,
Kimlou

 

[kheesan]

I am also not an expert. I am still learning. What I did was installed the software "realtek". Then I went to Control Panel>Harware and Sounds>Device Manager>Sound Video Game Controller and uninstall the current device.

This is done through an administrator mode and upon a right click, there will be various instructions. Click "uninstall" on the software identified in the Sound Video Game Controller. The restart your computer and it would automatically search for drivers installed in your computer.

Hope this help - like I said , I am also an amatuer who also am also interested in learning more.

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Thanks for the explanations Kimlou and kheesan!

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[Aphelion]

As part of learning, I also tried to install realtek,but did not go in. When I checked in the device manager, the realtek was not there, but in the programs and features. I tried several times both in safe and normal mode. May be it is not compatible, I am not sure. How about if I want to upgrade my sound drivers (that you gave it to me). I found the more recent driver(conexant hermosa 4.98.9.0), I tried to installed it, but said "can not find the device" or something. I appreciate so much if you can help me in my learning.

Sincerely,
Kimlou

You can't install drivers (realtek) for different hardware??

A sound device is not Generic, you -have- you use drivers for the manufacturer of the audio hardware that comes on the motherboard.

You will -cause problems- if you start randomly installing drivers.

Ap

 

[Kimlou]

I am also not an expert. I am still learning. What I did was installed the software "realtek". Then I went to Control Panel>Harware and Sounds>Device Manager>Sound Video Game Controller and uninstall the current device.

This is done through an administrator mode and upon a right click, there will be various instructions. Click "uninstall" on the software identified in the Sound Video Game Controller. The restart your computer and it would automatically search for drivers installed in your computer.

Hope this help - like I said , I am also an amatuer who also am also interested in learning more.

It is not working Kheesan. As you said I installed realtek first, then went to device manger and uninstalled the current device. In my case, since I installed conexant, by doing what you said: I installed realtek>uninstalled the current device(conexant)>restart computer, it just went back to the original device which is microsoft-the standard one.

Not yet giving up, then, I uninstalled and reinstalled realtek> went to device manager and unintalled the current device-of course, it is microsoft since it went back to it after uninstalling conexant. Then restart computer, the computer just reinstalled the original one.

Any advice

 

[Kimlou]

Kheesan, it is not working as you said. I do not know why. May be Walker knows, PLEASE!

Thanks,

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

I'm out of ideas, sorry ... at this point, you may just want to try a Clean Install. No promise it'll work but if you aren't getting anywhere it may be worth a try. Let me know what happens...

Cheers,

Walker
Windows Outreach Team