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    P6860FX Mic not working and an Unknown Device

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by kreidel, May 26, 2009.

  1. kreidel

    kreidel Notebook Evangelist

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    My onboard mic has never worked, or maybe I don't know how to work it, any ideas? I hate using my headphones and really just want to use the onboard one.


    Also I reloaded Vista and in Device Manager under Other Devices I have an unkown device. It says Location 1 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus). Anyone know what I am missing?
     
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    t3rR0r Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you using the correct IDT drivers?
     
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  3. kreidel

    kreidel Notebook Evangelist

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    Speakers are working fine, the mic is not working but it never has. or I am doing something wrong and don't know how to use it.
     
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    Your mic probably works, its just the mics on our computers pretty much suck. Gateway uses a very very poor quality mic... they had to save costs somehow to get these prices on these systems i suppose.

    One trick is to turn the volumes all the way up in the properties panel... doesnt really help but it will start to register sounds :eek:

    As to your unknown device... i would suggest getting the new driver (iaTa's thread has the newest drivers for our systems)
     
    Kamin_Majere, May 26, 2009
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