Microphone detected but won't work

[THRobinson]

I decided to try adding a microphone (Creative Labs) that I had in a box for a while, and see if can use it on World of Warcraft.

Plugged in and nothing.

Checked online, poked around etc... went into the sound panel and configured the mic (read the little blurb it makes you read) and finished. But every time I go back, it's defaulted back to headset not desktop mic. When I go to the sound control panel, the mic shows up... when I talk the green lights go up/down... so the mic does work and Win7 does see it.

For a while when I tested with sound recorder I got no sound, then for some reason it started saying no mic detected.

No idea what to try... mic works fine, windows see's it, the green lights go up/down when I talk... but microphone setup keeps defaulting back to headset and I can't get anything to record the sound.

???

 

[i7Baby]

Does it need a driver installed?

 

[THRobinson]

I let windows install the drivers, and always worked... I mean no ! marks in hardware/devices... speakers work... and again when I talk the green level/meter goes up and down so it is detecting it. Maybe just needs specific drivers vs generic windows? Will try that next.

 

[THRobinson]

Downloaded the SoundMax200B Drivers from the ASUS website for my motherboard. Installed, rebooted, and when it came up it detected something plugged into the green and the pink ports. Asked what the green was, speakers... then the pink and clicked microphone. I then used the mic setup and it had me read a paragraph to adjust the volume, and again can see the volume indicators on the screen (wave this time) moving as I talked.

Went into accessories and tried the sound recorder... this time worked. But World of Warcraft still nothing... from the testing it seemed to pick up my voice volume without trouble... now down to WoW just not wanting to detect it. :S

 

[i7Baby]

Is WoW set up properly?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2795122717

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/setting-up-sound-devices-for-voice-chat

 

[THRobinson]

Not sure what happened but finally started working... though quality was pretty bad.

So I guess different drivers was the main thing... WoW on otherhand was just being difficult.

 

[i7Baby]

Oh well good to hear. It would also be good to work out exactly what made it work all of a sudden.

 

[THRobinson]

Oh well good to hear. It would also be good to work out exactly what made it work all of a sudden.

Ya I know... tried stuff for almost an hour. Though even before the different driver I was still confused why the audio panel showed a working mic, but no other apps would recognize it. Never had that before in WinXP... just plugged it in and used it.

Have another PC here, tested the mic out... and simply plugged it in and worked straight away.

Well... works now... not gonna jinx it by messing around wondering why. 😀