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edward stamm
June 3rd, 2005, 06:15 PM
I just 'upgraded' from Win98SE to Win2000Pro (don't ask why, but I *had* to, due to work-related issues). Before my upgrade, I was able to input a radio/casette player into my sound card (Sound Blaster) mike and record things from it. After my upgrade, I lost this ability. I upgraded my sound card drivers. At this point, if I run a program that has sound, I can hear everything fine. However, now I can't hear anything running in via the mike. I've checked everything I can, and nothing is 'muted' (particularly the 'line-in' balance). My hardware profile says that my sound card is 'working properly'. Is there another driver I need?

(I should also mention that the sound recorder program I had been using no longer works in Win2000, but I downloaded another program that will record what is heard through the speakers. However, whatever I run through the SB microphone cannot be heard hrough the speakers.)

Spider
June 4th, 2005, 01:38 AM
Sounds like you've gone through everything sensible. Upgrades...this is one reason why I don't
promote them at all. Your problem is most likely some type of failure or corruption happened
during the 98 ---> 2K upgrade.

You'll probably find if you do a clean install of Windows 2000 (partition delete, create, format) and
not an upgrade, your microphone will be fine.