Hey Tripleb,

Thank you so much! I was having the same nasty issues in Ventrillo/skype when using the mic. I thought I had tried everything. Your method worked beautifully! Why's Relatek gotta be such a b$%ch!?

Anyhoo, thanks again! And for all of you struggling with your Realtek ALC888, follow Tripleb's July '07 post. Good stuff!


Ridgrid

You did it Tripleb! (see earlier up this thread). And it all came together from the instruction up top in your painstaking walkthrough to.... Disable Front Panel. Suddenley, the mic on my headset is sqealing thru the speakers, for the first time ever!Followed the rest of your settings, and made first ever perfect 2 way contact with girlfriend on Skype, then entered CS in 2 way at last! Brilliant! Thank you so much!

I spent DAYS googling for answers to this prob- eventually this came up- and I had to join to post my thanks to you all, and you in particular, for an end to the nightmare.
Happy New Year
See you again...
Mike

I'm having a problem as well, as this thread seems closely related, I'm posting here.

System Specs-

Motherboard: Evga Nforce 680i SLI LE (Up to date)
Sound: Onbard HD
Audio Codec: Realtek HD Audio (Up to date)
System: XP Professional

Problem:

I plug in my microphone, it does not work. No auto detect and no sound recognized in the microphone. Attempted most of the stuff on this thread, nothing worked. The headphones work fine. It is just the microphone. If anyone could I help, I would greatly appreciate it. I prefer not to have to go to buy a USB headset.

I found a solution to the mic low sensativity problem.
There is a "microphone boost" checkbox under realtek sound manager program ->mixer tab->playback-> (scroll to right) and you see mic volume.
Here is the very sneak part. There is a speaker icon and there is a button with ".." written on it. Press that and it shows the "microphone boost" checkbox.

Hope it helps all!

Thank you Tripeb! Following your post (earlier up in this thread) I was able to fix the microphone issue on my computer. I tested it with Skype and the sound is nice and clear.
For all those that hear yourselves in the speakers while you speak, follow Tripleb's advice: mute the Mic Volume under Playback... You do not want your voice played back at you (loopback)...
All the best!

i do have the same crap from realtek, realtek primary input is not working but when i uses somthing else i does record but the voice is deteriorated and low,.the out put is very good but im a musician and i need to record, but im unfortunate to have this problem and it is way too bad for a system running a quadcore, 4 gb memory with xp profesional sp2. is there anyone can post a solution for dummy?

Hello!
I had all the problems that you had, but now it is fixed.
The only problem I have left is that I think my RealTek HDA is recording og picking up sounds coming through my speakers! Even without the speakers or mic on, I get feedback in some programs. It just builds up all by itself!

Anyone help?

This is for all the ppl having problems getting their mic working i couldn't get my new mic to work so i spent all day lookin on forums and a LOT of ppl are having the same problem i eventually solved it my self (by pressing every button i could find lol) to get it to work i opened Realtek HD Audio Manager, under the Audio I/O tab i changed the 6 channel speaker settings to 2 channel and that was it works fine now. when it's set to 6ch it uses the mic port (the pink one) as a center speaker and sub output by changing it 2ch it makes it into a mic port the thing we've all been lookin for. : )

hope this helps please post this around thanx

i made an acount on this forum just to say THANK YOU. u have no idea how many hours i'v spend to find a solution to my problem. and this works perfectly.

again Thank you.

Wow 6 members above all with one post only.

But Donlemmens's post is the best as he just joined to say thanks

Don't be strangers all of you

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and pingusti I see

edit2:

Actually I've now noticed a few up there

I want to reopen this thread since I have a Realtek mic problem. In short:

Notebook HP DV6500 (running XP) with built-in Realtek HD. Up to yesterday everything was working perfect. I used a headphone/mic set for just 2 hours. Now the Realtek application claims that my external microphone is still plugged in and the program automatically turns off my internal laptop microphone. I tried plugging it in and out 50 times with no success. I have the latest drivers. I usually do not use the headphone microphone, I only use the built-in laptop mic all the time. But yesterday was an exception. Now when I look into the settings I see the External analog microphone icon selected and when I plug in a real external microphone I do not get a notification of something happening. I have tried installing and uninstalling everything about this driver. Also I turned off the laptop and took out the battery. I have no idea what is happening. Look at the image. I DO NOT HAVE AN EXTERNAL MICROPHONE!!!

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I bought a new computer in february and have had this problem with the mic since then. The microphone boost didn't even work and nothing else I read about either so I bought a new audio card, but oh my....my computer didn't even want to find it, and now it have taken me all evening to make the Realtek card work again. And well it does now, and the microphone bost too! BUT I get this annoying buzzing sound in my speacers when I have the boost enabled and it dissapears as soon as I disables it. And when I talk with my mic it sounds ****. Is there anything to do about this?

Hi. Since I bought a new computer I've been having difficulties with my mic. I've tried all of the solutions posted here and still no answer. The mic works fine when I plug it in the back panel and change the Audio I/O to 2 or 4 speakers. In both cases the pink port will be used for the microphone. But the problem is this. I have 6 speakers and I also have the mic and audio (pink and green) ports in the front panel. So when I choose 6 speakers to be used, the pink port in the back will be used for the central speaker and the subwoofer.

Ok, now I want to use the front panel for my audio and mic. When I enter the mic jack in the pink port I see that the GREEN port is highlighted (as in being used). When I try speaking in the mic Sound Recorder does not get any sound at all. BUT...when I enter the headphone's jack into the green port (while the mic jack is in the pink port) the microphone suddenly starts working....so I think I should be grateful for this but...then some weird stuff starts happening.

First is in the same Audio I/O tab, the front panel mic (pink) is seen as being in use while the green port is dimmed (as not being in used) while both of them are plugged in. This is not the only weird thing. The second weird thing is that every 3 minutes or so I get a pop up notification from windows that "a jack has been plugged" and 1 sec after "A jack has been unplugged". So for every 3 minutes I get interrupted while speaking because windows suddenly senses that jack has been plugged and unplugged. I thought that this was my older mic, but I bought a new one and it is the same.

Anyone has same problems? Any idea's what the problem might be?

If you need any information let me know so I can provide them.

ps. I saw some very dedicated responses in this thread. Very good ^^

It's the front port jack (Hardware) faulty

It could have dust in it
It could be not connected to the Motherboard securely (the front ports are physically connected from wires to a connector on the Motherboard)
or.. The front port is just faulty (Hardware) Although, you should restart, with the Mic and speakers already plugged in, as Windows will pick it up better (more securely)

If restart, and re-connecting the font Audio plug to the Motherboard, and possibly vacuuming out any dust in the Audio port does not fix the fault...

Then it must be just a faulty Hardware front port (ie the case) or bad soldering (dry joint) of the wires connecting to it.

Hi kimsland. Tnx for the response.

I tried to restart the computer with both jacks inserted and...viola! They are working perfectly. Both are recognized as being inserted and I don't get the pop up anymore about a cable has been plugged/unplugged.

But when I take them out and insert them again, I start getting the same message :\

For my work I need to go on TS several times a day and I don't see me restarting my PC 6 times daily. Is there a way to keep it like this?

If this is a hardware problem, it lies with the mobo or with the case?

tnx for your response ^^

It's not exactly Hardware any more!

I have seen this issue before as well, where the Windows IRQ assignments are not stabalized unless you restart. The fault seems to be the actual Sound card (onboard) that is just not real compatible with this.

Sometimes the fix is to do a BIOS update (although you really need to know what you're doing here -> ie Not even the Motherboard manufacture guarantees BIOS updates won't stop your computer working all together !!!)

Another option would be to purchase another PCI Sound card, and then plug the front Mic Snd into that (instead of the Motherboard) But actually this is a bit extreme too (ie Sound and Mic actually work!)

You could uninstall sound Driver fully (from Add/Remove Programs) Then download the most up to date driver from the web.
Yep, Start with that one

OK...I've tried to install the drivers again and installed a newer version of it but still the problem persist.

Now it tells me that "You;ve just plugged a device into the audio jack!" This message pops up when I try to insert the mic into the pink port and also when I insert the audio plug into the green port.

edit:

What I've noticed is that I don't keep getting the pop up message anymore every 3 minutes. But still the mic won't function if only the mic in inserted. Both mic and audio need to be inserted for the mic to work.

Ok, so I had the same problems with my new realtek onboard. I have, however, unlocked the secret of the realtek engineer's real genius. I now have everything working beautifully, and I am now going to blow everyone's mind away with the answer to all of your problems...or, most of your problems, I bet:

In the audio mixer in realtek's crappy little soundboard, do the unthinkable: mute your mic. Or mute whatever input you're using.

Done? Good. Now try it out. I bet you'll be very pleasantly surprised. For some reason Realtek seems to think that muting the mic equates to turning it on. Must be all that outsourcing screwing with the language...Or some disgruntled software engineer's last "f you" to realtek.

Hope this helps someone. It made me a lot happier when I finally connected the dots.

Had the same problem as everyone here, and this procedure helped! (strange as it seems). Thanks anyway and good luck you guys ;-)

Start->Run-> %windir%\MicCal.exe