m17xR3 Audio "Bleeding" ?

Alright so on my girls M17xR3, her sound all of a sudden started "beeding" badly, If I go on skype with her, or Teamspeak, etc, I can hear her sound.
Now originally I thought it was her headset, so we disconnected her headset completely, and tried it out, I'm still able to hear what is coming out of her computer speakers when both her headset is out, and her built in mic is disabled.
Next thing I tried was updating her drivers, which was a dirty update (without uninstalling first) and after reboot, she was unable to hear anything from her speakers but I could hear on skype what was suppose to be going to them.

After that I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled, and back to square one, she can hear but so can I.

If we disable all playback devices except Speakers / Headphones, it still does it, when we disable Speakers / Headphones, I'm unable to hear and so is she (obviously).
I've tried everything I can think of, and googled but the only answer I get is "Turn off "What-U-Hear" or "Stereo Mix". Problem is that option is no where to be found where they say it is.
I find it weird that I was able to hear what she was suppose to be hearing after dirty installing the driver when she was unable to hear anything at all yet I could on my end.

Any help would be awesome.

 

Have you tried disabling the microphones one by one and see if by disabling any single one, the bleeding goes away?

 

Yep tried one by one, + both together, the only time it stops is when I disable " Speakers / Headphones" in playback

 

Sounds like a hardware malfunction then. Disabling the other sound input devices should stop the sound bleed thru. If not it sounds like the Recon3Di is not working properly. The "What You Hear" option should be under the recording devices tab in the sound control panel. But if it's not there, then it could still be a software/driver related issue.

 

Yeah the What-U-Hear isn't there at all.
Also its not there on my R2 and my R2 is fine, kind of confusing haha

 

Gimme a few minutes. I'm searching for a few resolutions. The "What You Hear" will not be on the R2. R2 and R3 models use an IDT sound chip, whereas the R4 use the Sound Blaster Recon3Di. "What You Hear" is unique to the Sound Blaster audio devices. The only reason I have the "What You Hear" on my R2 is because I use a Sound Blaster USB Recon3D.

EDIT: SO...I was very mistaken; The R3 uses an IDT sound chip as well (I don't know why I thought it uses a Sound Blaster). So this makes it semi-straightforward. So my next question is how did you uninstall the drivers for the clean install? Did you just uninstall the IDT audio from Program and Features? Or did you reboot, then go into Device Manager and uninstall the IDT High Definition Audio Codec from the Sound, Video, and Game Controllers? You need to go into Device Manager and uninstall the IDT High Definition Audio codec device from the list if was still there after the reboot, and then when you click uninstall, you need to check the box "delete the software driver for this device". Then reboot again. You may have to repeat the device manager uninstall process a couple of times in order to get any lingering driver files out of there. You will know when all the old driver files are removed when the IDT audio device doesn't show up anymore in device manager and instead you get "Multimedia Audio Controller" under "Other Devices". Then download and reinstall the IDT audio codec drivers for the R3: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers...?driverId=Y037W&osCode=W764&fileId=2947306938. See what happens then.

 

Is it happening since you got it? Perhaps you coul try a system restore if that's not the case.