Line in troubles

Hello. I tried posting a topic here a few days ago, then waited and waited for a response. I just came back today and my posting is gone. Oh well here it is again.

My line in and stereo mix have the volume meter all the way up in the recording devices window. Both devices will not record anything. Both devices worked before. I've only noticed this problem in the past week. I can't think of what I may have done differently. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers, resetting the system defaults, doing a system restore (which did not succeed because there was an error in the restore point I chose) I need these devices to work for my ham radio programs and my new business.

Again here is my computer information.
HP Pavillion with 4GB RAM, Quadcore Processor, and Vista Home Premium

Please do not delete this post and please if anyone has a suggestion please let me know. Thank you.

Mike Biasin

You can probably update your motherboard's sound driver. It's mentioned here:

http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/194885-how-unmute-my-line-need-regedit-professional.html

For me, line-in was too loud and I couldn't lower it, nor could I monitor it, so I deleted all the sound drivers and rebooted for a fresh install (that made the line-in too quiet). I tried raising the volume on recording (which made no difference), unmuting in the levels tab of Speakers (it doesn't show up), fixing the registry (it doesn't appear) and adding a new registry (made no difference), installing a new High Definition Audio Device driver (made no difference). Then I used my brother's computer which has XP, and while that worked, his computer is too slow so I gave up on that. I'm trying to transfer LPs to computer, but on his comp there are gaps as if my turntable was skipping. That was just as frustrating.

Anyway, the link above gave the answer. Basically all you need to do is find out your motherboard’s make and model, and download and install an audio driver from its website.

What I did was I downloaded and installed CPU-Z since I didn't feel like opening my case to see my motherboard model. The mainboard tab says it's an ASUSTek PK5-E, but luckily I still have the box and it said it was a PK5-E WiFi-AP. Googled "asustek p5k-e driver." Went to the ASUSTek website. Entered the model "p5k-e" and selected ALL, or you can do the general download, select MOTHERBOARD, select the series (CPU-Z will tell you the type of Socket in the CPU tab, in my case it was Socket 775), select model (PK5-E WiFi-AP). Pop-up, select the AUDIO drivers. The Global or China downloads work best because the other two require weird downloads before you can download.

Installation took a while (I thought it froze) and so did the reboot, but it just takes a lot longer than usual. Finally f*cking fixed the g*ddamn thing!