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    Acer 5672 Microphone issue

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Schlagzeuger, Oct 7, 2006.

  1. Schlagzeuger

    Schlagzeuger Newbie

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    I am having a hard time getting my Acer 5672 to work with Skype. For some reason, the microphone inputs do not seem to be active when I am on battery. I have looked around in the forum and through the various menus in power management, and I can't seem to find out why. any ideas?
     
  2. SSX4life

    SSX4life Notebook Deity

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    under the realtek audio control panel you need to enable microphone boost

    Go to control panel, the realtek control panel, enable boost, try it out.

    --ssx--
     
  3. Schlagzeuger

    Schlagzeuger Newbie

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    in my Realtek microphone control panel i have only 2 options: noise suppression and acoustic noise cancellation. I am using Realtek's driver 5.10.00.5172. Is there a different driver I should be using for this notebook?
     
  4. Q8PHANTOM

    Q8PHANTOM Notebook Evangelist

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    yeah u must got latest driver from sticky thread here thene double click on red realtek taskbar icon >> mixer tab >> follow my pics
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    is there any thing easiear :)
    thanks
     
  5. grocky

    grocky Newbie

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    I have a "dumb" question.

    On the realtek options as displayed above, how come there are no "sliders" on the Line Volume and Mic Volume on the Audio Input half. Does that not control the "input record volume" ?

    What am I missing here ?
     
  6. Q8PHANTOM

    Q8PHANTOM Notebook Evangelist

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    that slider is not the problem
    u can test by record any sound
     
  7. Schlagzeuger

    Schlagzeuger Newbie

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    yes, it is odd that there are no sliders in the record section.
    thanks, q8phantom, for the screenshots and the help. i got my problem worked out.
     
  8. Q8PHANTOM

    Q8PHANTOM Notebook Evangelist

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    your welcome
    that's my first help in that site
     
  9. Rob500

    Rob500 Notebook Guru

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    I've just started using Skype on my 5672 and found this thread as my microphone did not seem to be picking up much sound. I've followed the recommended action here to switch on the microphone boost - thanks q8phantom.

    Despite that though the sound being picked up (e.g. by the Skype test call) is still very quiet - is that because the microphone in the 5672 is just not much good or could there be some other problem? Would it be much better if I bought a usb microphone and headset?
     
  10. anchemis

    anchemis Notebook Consultant

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    tune up the volume of the mic / recording vol.

    or get an external mic!
     
  11. Rob500

    Rob500 Notebook Guru

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    I've tried setting every slider I can find as high as it will go!

    The thing that would help most is to know whether anybody is sucessfully using the built in microphone with Skype? If they are then it will encourage me to try more!
     
  12. Q8PHANTOM

    Q8PHANTOM Notebook Evangelist

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    my microphone works very very good
    just download new drivers from the sticky thread from acer website
     
  13. Rob500

    Rob500 Notebook Guru

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    Well I've tried the latest drivers - thanks for that and it now sems OK although I'd like it a bit louder. (I tried an external microphone and that was no better so I guess it will have to do.) Thanks for the help.

    Now to ask a question about the sound on the computer I am trying to talk with but I'll open a new thread for that!
     
  14. Q8PHANTOM

    Q8PHANTOM Notebook Evangelist

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    if u wanna better sound performance just boost the equalizer to full