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Inspiron 700m Audio Problem
Hello everyone,
The sound coming off the speakers of my Inspiron 700m is full of *very loud* static noise when microphone is used (just listen to music is fine!!). I tried to use other MICs and even update the soundcard driver to no avail. Any suggestion???
Thank you.
Message Edited by mystix on 12-17-2004 02:54 AM
- Hi Raicard,Since day 1 it has been like that! Everytime I turn on the MIC to use, the noise would be so loud with popping and hissing sound. When I disable that built-in audio to use the USB Creative card, the popping noise would be gone but the hissing sound still remain. It's so annoying :smileysad:
- with that description looks like there is a problem with your audio card. becuase it just happen when you use the microphone. now i will suggest reloading the audio drivers to see if that make any difference. after that just run the dell diags and check that happen on the diags if so then call tech support probably they will try some more updates but we could be taking about replacing some hardware here. try reloading the audio drivers. probably they can tell you that you need to reinstall windows be prepare for that too.
- Mystix,
I also seem to be having the same problem on my 700m. When I plug in my headset into the mic port, i get a loud background hiss accompanied with an occasional tapping. Usually, music plays out fine through both the laptop speakers and the headphone out port. I have tried other mics and got the same problem.
I searched the forums and noticed there is another thread about this same problem, http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_audio&message.id=20063&query.id=127268#M20063
I have ended up using my regular desktop again for the headset until Dell comes up with a fix for it. I guess not to many people use the microphone port for it to have shown up on Dell's radar. - Go to volume properties in control panel, then go to the third tab (volume) and click on mic volume then the bar w/ mic volume will come up, (or u can get there from the volume button in system tray but this way is simpler to give directions) then go options >> profiles and check the other recording option. make sure that the one labeled "mic" is checked, and not the stereo mix one; u can only pick one at a time but yeah...if its on stero mix mine does that too but on mic it works fine. Okay i dont know if u've solved this already but just in case u havn't there it is.
- This problem is not resolved. There is a design defect on all 700m motherboards that makes audio recording impossible. Just do a search on this forum or on google for the problem and you'll see that there are many different users complaining about this. Dell is doing nothing about it - these units should be recalled and fixed.
- I have the same problem recording audio. I first noticed the problem from day 1, when there was no speaker icon in the system tray to adjust the volume. I then downloaded a music recording software and it specified that in order to use the software, I had to be signed in as administrator, which I was, and check my audio driver. Dell tech support told me to download the drivers on support.dell.com which obviously didn't resolve the problem. Is there no remedy for this solution?
Raicard
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Posted December 17th, 2004 18:00
It was working fine before? or since day one you got this problem?