uninstalled it, and as soon as I booted up it had already installed whatever drivers windows found, again the mic settings stick for about 5 minutes after the PC starts up then it reverts back down to 0 and muted.
wich would be? fresh install?
Are you using sound recorder to test your mic, or another application? To test another possible theory, when you start the pc, open up the volume control panel to input devices (before the mic normally shits the bed) and unplug literally every peripheral attached to the computer, including keyboard and mouse. If it doesn't zero out and fixes it, plug in peripherals one at a time and wait a few seconds to determine the culprit. It could be something such as dander/something spilled near an on-keyboard mic control that only gums up after you start banging on the keyboard for a few minutes.
Use msconfig.exe and change Normal boot to Safe Mode while you are in Windows normally. You may want to enable networking so you can attempt to read posts here (it's another one of the boot options in msconfig.exe) and try troubleshooting from there.
Once you are in safe mode, you need to go into device manager and manually start up audio (you will most likely need to turn on the windows services for it as well, by typing "services" into the start window search bar and then going through the list and enabling Audio services one at a time) and if your headset/mic is shown, enable that as well. Do this after trying noodle's tactic. If his doesn't work, do what I just mentioned and then see if the mic behaves the same. If it does, you have a hardware problem, not software.
all right ill do that, the headset/mic wasn't shown in the tab when I first tried.
that was the first thing I checked, because I have done that a million times, itl get switched or something on its own.
yeah it works, Lanx i dont have those hooked up heh my gfs brother put my Pc together and didnt do that i forget why, but does anyone know anything about intel rapid store technology? i deleted this in a frenzy trying to figure out what was causing my mic to fuck up, and now ever since loading shit has been awful websites lock up constantly, loading is extremely slow in games like WoW i constantly fail to load and get Dc'd constantly/instance not found, and this really only started happening after i uninstalled that shit and now im looking for it again but im not sure exactly what i had in the first place was a while ago when we did this.
