Eugene

This is not the problem. Somewhere internally vista has set itself not to use
the mic. I have the same issue, and it occurred when I made the mistake of
telling it not to prompt me every time I plugged in the mic.

Can someone please help. I need to be able to use a headset for skype, and
if I cannot find a solution I'm going to have to remove vista, and go back to
an older OS.

"Joe" wrote:

> you have onboard audio or an added card? make sure you ahve the right audio
> device selected in the cotnrol panel for both input and output. also make
> sure you have the right driver (it soudns like you dont have one installed
> for your audio device, thats what that pop up is).. ive never had a prompt
> come up on any computer ever when you plug in a 1/8th inch plug to an audio
> card... they simply cant detect it, unless some wild new card has come out in
> the last 30 days i dont know about.
>
> "cauliflower" wrote:
>
> > When I plug in my headset (earpieces and microphone), it usually asks me to
> > select "microphone" as my choice for the plugged in device. Earlier today, I
> > hit "do not ask me this again" because I thought that it would accept that
> > the only thing I ever plug into that port (the red part of the red/green
> > audio section). What I wanted was to not be asked to choose every
> > time....that I always wanted to select microphone. But now it's not asking
> > me anything, and the microphone is not working. I've done all the microphone
> > troubleshooting things...but can't figure out how to get the computer to
> > start asking me again what device I want to use every time I plug in the
> > headset. Any ideas?