Microphone not working right

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My friend and I both have identical Logitech Webcams with a built in
microphone. I use Windows XP, and he has Windows 2000 Pro. We can
both transmit and recieve video fine using Yahoo Messenger, but he
cannot send out voice very well (he can hear me fine). Sometimes I
hear nothing from him, and other times a hear a blip or a bloop, and
still a couple of times he almost came in clearly. He has also tried
separatly, an old microphone he had laying around. Sam results. he
sometimes gets a "conflict" message when he talks. His sudio does
check out fine when he tests it with the Logitech software.

My question is this - Anyone here have a sound conflict like this
using Windows 2000? I suspect he has too many programs loading on
boot up and getting a conflict somewhere, but I want to make sure, so
if you've had sound problems like this let me know.

Oh, another question - with XP, I can click on "Start", then "Run",
and a program called "msconfig" is automatically entered into the
field. By starting this porgram, I can check out several things in
the config of the computer - one choice is to start Windows with only
basic needed programs to start up - so you can run the computer
without everything loaded to check to see if the conflict or problem
goes away. He says he cannot find an equal type program on his Win
2000 Pro. Is there something like this he can access?
 
Zardoz said:
My friend and I both have identical Logitech Webcams with a built in
microphone. I use Windows XP, and he has Windows 2000 Pro. We can
both transmit and recieve video fine using Yahoo Messenger, but he
cannot send out voice very well (he can hear me fine). Sometimes I
hear nothing from him, and other times a hear a blip or a bloop, and
still a couple of times he almost came in clearly. He has also tried
separatly, an old microphone he had laying around. Sam results. he
sometimes gets a "conflict" message when he talks. His sudio does
check out fine when he tests it with the Logitech software.

Could be the sound card or driver does not support full duplex.

If he is using the Microsoft drivers supplied with Windows 2000 they
don't support full duplex. Try downloading and installing the latest
drivers from the sound card manufacturer.


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Try having him use his mic in different programs and make
sure his drivers are full duplex. If not, tell him to set
his webcam program to half duplex mode.

Good Luck,
Krista
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Zardoz said:
My friend and I both have identical Logitech Webcams with a built in
microphone. I use Windows XP, and he has Windows 2000 Pro. We can
both transmit and recieve video fine using Yahoo Messenger, but he
cannot send out voice very well (he can hear me fine). Sometimes I
hear nothing from him, and other times a hear a blip or a bloop, and
still a couple of times he almost came in clearly. He has also tried
separatly, an old microphone he had laying around. Sam results. he
sometimes gets a "conflict" message when he talks. His sudio does
check out fine when he tests it with the Logitech
software.

Could be the sound card or driver does not support full duplex.

If he is using the Microsoft drivers supplied with Windows 2000 they
don't support full duplex. Try downloading and installing the latest
drivers from the sound card manufacturer.


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iv< Paul >iv<

[ Mail: (e-mail address removed) ]
[ WWW: http://www.hopwood.org.uk/ ]
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From (e-mail address removed) Thu Jan 15 05:07:32 2004
Could be the sound card or driver does not support full duplex.
If he is using the Microsoft drivers supplied with Windows 2000 they
don't support full duplex. Try downloading and installing the latest
drivers from the sound card manufacturer.>
Try having him use his mic in different programs and make
sure his drivers are full duplex. If not, tell him to set
his webcam program to half duplex mode.
Good Luck,

His situation is this: It's a five year old sound card, but a 3 year
old good processing speed computer. In control panel, inside of
Sounds and Audio Devices, it is listed as a "Sound Blaster Live
Basic". However, he says he cannot find the install CD with the
drivers on it, and cannot access anything that would allow him to
tweak things, like change duplex, or even see what duplex.

He's lost. If anyone can write a walk through as to what do do in
Windows to do whatever, or advise him where to get the latest drivers
& maybe replacement install/set-up programs that he's lost, he'd
appreciate it. Does Sound Blaster still exist as a company? They
must have a web site if they do (have to look). They used to be #1
sound but now are nothing...
 
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