Laptop inbuilt mic not listening to sound after a second of using it

[Nihal mazhar]

i havn't been using my microphone for a while now.Recently i opened the sound recorder for something and much to my surprise its not recording the sound.The strange thing is that it records sound at the beginning clearly and after a second doesnt catch sound.The mic is located at the top of the screen near the webcam.
The laptop is a FUJITSU LIFEBOOK A SERIES AH531 Windows 7x64 home basic.the audio driver is from REALTEK.I have updated the driver to the latest version but it doesnt seem to change anything.After one second , it doesnt record sound and only way to make it catch the sound is to go near to the mic and speak at full voice.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hello and welcome Nihal mate go to the Control Panel > Sound and check out each of the tabs as in my pic see if there are any not working or other faulty errors marked up. Any device attached should have a green tick against it.

 

[Nihal mazhar]

Yes.the green tick mark is there.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Nihal mate just how old is the machine mate? I am thinking maybe the actual physical microphone is at fault somehow. That could be either the device itself or other components it connects to ie a dry joint or dud cap will do that.

 

[Nihal mazhar]

Its around 4 years old.what wonders me is that if it was a hardware problem the mic wouldnt function at all.am i right?.but its working for 1 second everytime i activate the recording option and after that goes out

Also when i switch the tabs between playback and recording devices also its showing that green bar for soumd levels for a second.after that dies out. I think i should visit a repair shop

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Its around 4 years old.what wonders me is that if it was a hardware problem the mic wouldnt function at all.am i right?.but its working for 1 second everytime i activate the recording option and after that goes out

Also when i switch the tabs between playback and recording devices also its showing that green bar for soumd levels for a second.after that dies out. I think i should visit a repair shop

Well in a nutshell yes and no the mic might be ok but the connections may be out of whack that is what I meant by a dry joint or some other dud component that prevents it working properly. Now it also depends on what the mic is constructed from too for example is i a mving coil type or one of the piezo material types?

You can see from this article how many different types there are Microphone - Wikipedia The two types I mentioned work very differently and the older moving coil type relies on just that a moving coil attached to a diaphragm and just for example if the diaphragm is damaged or clogged with crud then no it is not going to work well at all because it relies on that movement to produce an electrical impulse - a loud speaker works in the opposite manner to give you an idea. Now the piezo type is a ceramic based device that relies on the crystal becoming excited by sound waves to produce the signal that is then amplified by the audio system. Look this is all as I said very simplistic and there are many ways that the sound that you produce is not relayed as an electrical signal in the machine. Hence I would be pulling it apart and looking myself but if you are not confident in doing that then yes get someone to have a look at the machine - it could turn out to be something entirely different I am just surmising here.

Now again it is your choice of course and maybe a repair store might be the thing to do if you can afford it and don't have the time to sort it out yourself.