No Mic input?

[herringtonjc]

I have a regular old desktop microphone as well as a headset. For some reason my computer doesn't have voice recognition or something.

I went to Control Panel>Speech and Audio and set the volume all the way up on my Mic, as well as taking off the mute. I have a Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit...

The microphone itself doesn't have a volume control or mute switch on it, it's an older labtec mic, and I can't seem to find my headset.

I'm not too sure why this bothers me so much, I may just break down, and tear my tower apart, throw a new sound card in, and buy a new microphone...

^.^ Any ideas?

 

[CCT]

Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices, Voice, Voice recording, Test Hardware.

 

[herringtonjc]

Man, I went to tinkering around with it, and now my speakers aren't playing either, this sound card is rubbish...

 

[ctmaster08]

re download the sound card drivers aka software re set and test the settings if that don't work then your sound card is crap.

 

[herringtonjc]

I reinstalled it all via software drivers and all. Everything set at default, the speakers are working again, but still no mic... I decided I could care less, I type fast enough anyway ^.^