> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:14:26 +0100, Stewart wrote:
>

>> Chris, I bought a new sound card and after disabling the sound card in
>> the
>> motherboard the new one is working fine. No screeching and all works at
>> present except for the mike; it would have been set up for the sound card
>> in
>> the motherboard so I still have that to sort out but it is no big deal if
>> it
>> does not work.

>
> To get the Microphone to work you need to set the input mux to Microphone.
> Go to the Sound & Audio Devices control panel, under Sound recording make
> sure the correct card name is showing as the default and click the Volume
> button (the second one in the recording section). On the screen that
> appears make sure that Microphone is selected.
>
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