Low Microphone volume level

[Gene E. Bloch]

Something else weird going on:
Though I'd try to Disable mic in Sound Manager/Properties/General then
Enable it again
When I clicked on Disable the entry vanished completely
Looked everywhere, Device Manager and the likes, no sign, Pink input on rear
has also disappeared (previously showed as unplugged)
K

1. In Device Manager, there is a setting under View to Show Hidden
Devices.

2. What do you see if you plug a mic into the port?

 

[kreed]

Looked under View to Show Hidden Devices - nothing - its doesn't display
individual ports.

When plugging in mic the Realtek Manager pops up to say a device has been
plugged in, and asks for confirmation that it is a mic

However, it then doesn't show up in Recording Devices in Sound Manager

K

 

[Paul]

Looked under View to Show Hidden Devices - nothing - its doesn't display
individual ports.

When plugging in mic the Realtek Manager pops up to say a device has
been plugged in, and asks for confirmation that it is a mic

However, it then doesn't show up in Recording Devices in Sound Manager

K

Well, I'm completely at a loss in this case. I don't know how something
like that could disappear, unless there was some other sound card software
installed which is interfering in some way.

As an example, some people like to bodge in a RealTek driver, when they
can't get some other brand of sound driver working. Because with a little hacking,
it can be "made universal", and give minimalist stereo sound. But then,
if such a person comes looking for help here, we'll be at a loss to explain
anything strange that may be happening to them Some people do crazy
things (and then, don't tell us).

A lot of the "bad things" that happen on a computer, have malware as a root
cause. But what kind of malware wastes its time messing up the sound subsystem ?
There's not much point.

Another thing that could account for strange behavior, is some over-zealous
"registry cleaning". Maybe the RealTek thingy, tried to record the changes to
config in the registry, which was already damaged. Try using a System Restore
point, to get the original config back again. Just go back a day or two,
to before when you made the change. Or go back further, to before you used
a registry cleaner

Paul

 

[kreed]

The driver is 64bit_Vista_Win7_R265 6.0.1.6449 dated 30/08/2011 downloaded
about a week ago from the RealTek site

But I was having problems before with , hoped this new driver sort them

Just did a driver roll-back followed by driver update and its back

It just shouldn't lose a port like that and I still have my original problem
with the mic level

The only other thing i can find related to sound is SPDIF_OUT on M/B
connecting to graphics card for HDMI out, this seems to have some NVidia HDA

K

 

[Paul]

The driver is 64bit_Vista_Win7_R265 6.0.1.6449 dated 30/08/2011
downloaded about a week ago from the RealTek site

But I was having problems before with , hoped this new driver sort them

Just did a driver roll-back followed by driver update and its back

It just shouldn't lose a port like that and I still have my original
problem with the mic level

The only other thing i can find related to sound is SPDIF_OUT on M/B
connecting to graphics card for HDMI out, this seems to have some NVidia
HDA

K

Do you need the NVidia setup ? Does removing it help ?

The thing about the Registry, is just because you rollback or you
remove a driver, that doesn't restore the registry guaranteed. The only
way to clean up the registry, is with System Restore, to an older
point in time. Installers seem to do a poor job of undoing the damage
they've done. (I've fixed one problem, between motherboard sound
and CMedia CMI8738 PCI sound, using regedit and ProcMon. It took
*forever* to find the problem. No amount of installing and
uninstalling would have fixed it.)

Paul

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Well, I'm completely at a loss in this case.

Same here.

In case you hadn't figured that out already