Microphone jack and intermittent recognition of a new micr..

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Open Control panel/Sound... and check (or uncheck   "Use only default
devices" setting.
Also, check the options for the particular program you have troubles w/ the
mic.
Being a laptop, might be that the workload's soliciting the RAM/CPU/HDD
(paging) to the max.
If the mic. does not work at all, update drivers in Device Manager or
uninstall and reinstall.
Michael
"AndyB" <AndyB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C928ABBB-7634-4558-A6F1-0A9151E25B44@microsoft.com...
>I have a relatively new laptop that has audio jacks for a microphone and
>for
> a headset. The head set works without any problems. I have gotten a new
> mike, and there are times when it works fine (for speech recognition,
> etc.),
> and other times when the computer does not recognize that it is there. I
> haven't changed anything in the control panel, other than setting up a
> profile during one of the times when the computer was recognizing that
> there
> was a mike!
> I am pretty sure the problem is in the software, not the hardware, as the
> mike is brand new, and seems to work fine when the OS gods are with me.
> Any suggestions for things to try?