topic Re: activating the microphone in PCs & Accessories

activating the microphone

BJEUNHOMME — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:07:31 GMT

Hello,

I deactivated the microphone (control panel, sound, recording tab), and I can't find any way to activate it again. Now, everything simply looks like no microphone was ever there.

Any one knows how to activate it again?

Re: activating the microphone

markj1993 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:36:03 GMT

hi BJEUNHOMME,

welcome to club vaio,

first of all check you have the latest sound update 'SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC'. If you have go to control panel, speech recognition options, then set up microphone and select built in microphone. Hopefully this should enable it again

Good luck, Mark.

Re: activating the microphone

BJEUNHOMME — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:17:55 GMT

Hi and thank you for your answer.

first of all check you have the latest sound update 'SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC'.

I am not sure how to do that, but, if it is related, I don't see anything that resembles this in the windows update history.

If you have go to control panel, speech recognition options, then set up microphone and select built in microphone

When I do so, I get an error popup that says "Impossible to start wizard".

Re: activating the microphone

BJEUNHOMME — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:28:08 GMT

I finally found a solution to this. I give it here, just in case someone needs it someday :=)

Here is the recipe: right click on the icon of the speaker in the system tray, and choose "recording devices", a box opens and displays a list of available recording devices (which will most likely be empty if the microphone is deactivated). Right click where the microphone should appear, and select "show disabled devices". Then, the device appears. Now, it is possible to activate it by right clicking on it.