Laptop Microphone - problems
 

My IBM ThinkPad T30 has a built in Microphone. Im using Messenger 6.0 to try to establish an audio chat session and somehow I cant get my microphone to work. Even though I think its picking up sound correctly, in the audio session I can hear the other person perfectly but I can get them to hear me.

I think I have a Windows configuration glitch... Ive used the Audio/Video Tuning Wizard, and the tests seem to go fine, still, it doesnt work.

Can somebody please help...?

Thanks.

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Gaucho100K

In WindowsXP you have seperate controls for microphone and voice, go to your control panel, click Sounds and Audio Devices and select the VOICE tab, make sure that is set to your laptops sound card. When you've done that click on the volume tab and make sure the volume is selected on the microphone.

Gracias Scotty.... I will try that out right now... http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...m/thumbsup.gif

Ive tried it and is still doesnt work. What do you mean by set to the Sound Card. Ive run the diagnostics and it appears to work... and I dont have a router or a firewall.... what else could be the problem?

check your "Line-in" settings. Kinda silly but make sure it's not on mute. Usually laptop mikes stink anyways.

Line in is also not muted... still doesnt work... http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/mad.gif Will I solve this if I get a new, separate microphone...?

Take it into a PC store and see if they can help you. Something like this is easier to trouble shoot in person.

Its a great idea, but there are hardly any retail stores here in EZE that carry ThinkPads, its mostly a corporate only product here, so thats not an option for me at the moment.

Any other ideas...?

Well at least you taught me something I didn't know. I have an IBM T40 and didn't even realize it had a built in microphone. Now I do (and it works).

What is difficult to ascertain is whether you are having a hardware problem (microphone itself doesn't work) or a software/internet problem (microphone works but won't signal won't pass through to the internet).

First thing I would do is see if the microphone passes the Test Hardware scenario in Win XP Control Panel:Sounds and Audio Devices:Voice.

If the microphone passes that test (you actually hear your voice echoed through the T30's speakers), you know it is not a hardware or Win XP problem. If it doesn't pass, you know the problem is in one of those two areas.

Either way, I'd attach an external microphone and see if you have any better luck.

As Ive posted above, I know the mic works, Ive run all the tests and diags in various places, using the MSN Messenger wizard and the other wizards available on XP. It seems to be a configuration issue with the Messenger software that doesnt route my voice input from the mic onto the other party in the audio conversation. I do not have a firewall either... so I cannot understand what is going on... http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/mad.gif

Your welcome... http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...um/biggrin.gif

If it's any help, I never got it working either http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...um/biggrin.gif

Scotty, the thought that you couldnt get it to work is haunting me!!! http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/eek.gif

Still, lets hope you just didnt feel like getting it to work, and maybe I can still solve my little problem... http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/wink.gif

Anybody else got any ideas on a possible fix for this...?