Re: Headset/microphone gets muted, please help

Since you are thinking there may be a conflict with something else, you can
try this troubleshooting procedure (it will take some time):

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316434

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP Shell User


"Michael Allred" <MichaelAllred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Any ideas folks?

"Michael Allred" wrote:

None, anything Yahoo offers does nothing. Which is why I believe the
issue
lies on my end.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

I wonder if Yahoo support might have any insight on the problem ???

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Ron Badour
MS MVP Shell User


"Michael Allred" <MichaelAllred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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Well this recent occurance is only a few days old but it's done this
before
and I've no idea why. Perhaps there's some kind of conflict but I
wouldn't
know where to start. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling Yahoo
messenger
to
see if that helped, it doesn't. I dunno how it gets to working again
either.
I just find it goofy that, as I stated before, when I try placing a
call
through yahoo messenger, the audio turns all the way down and the
microphone
is automatically muted all on it's own.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

If this problem is only a few days old, you could try a system
restore to
see if that cures it. The system restore procedure is in the Help
file
if
you are not familiar with it. By the way, if you haven't done this,
I
recommend that you first run full scans with up to date anti virus
and
malware (i.e., SpyBot) programs.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP Shell User


"Michael Allred" <MichaelAllred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I own a LogiTech headset/microphone, you know headphones and
microphone
all
in one?

Anyway I use it for voice chat, primarily through Yahoo messenger
to
call
up
friends' computers and talk that way. Problem is sometimes it
works and
sometimes it doesn't and I have no idea what causes it not to
work.
Somehow
the microphone gets muted and no sound goes through at all. The
headphones
work and I can hear sound (not from another person talking mind
you,
just
whatever it is I'm listening to, music, etc.)

Anyway, I'm going through everything I know of before making a
call
through
Yahoo messenger to be sure everything's set up like it should. I'm
no
expert
or anything (hence why I'm here asking questions) but I run
through the
call
set-up on Yahoo and that works as it should, I check the volume
settings
and
everything is unmuted and volume turned up but here's the thing, I
had
the
volume setting menu opened up as I tried to make a call using
Yahoo
messenger's voice chat and the freaky thing happened was as soon
as I
hit
'call' the volume meter automatically turned all the way down and
the
microphone setting automatically muted itself and I'm like what
the
heck????
I can turn the volume back up and unmute the microphone but if I
try to
call
again, the process just repeats itself.

Now I've used my headset before to use voice chat on yahoo
messenger so
I
KNOW it works but the other day I turned my computer off and when
I
turned
it
back on, that's when the problem occured again (it's done it
before by
the
way, not sure how I got it to work previously either then again
I'm not
sure
how it gets messed up too.)

I'm at wit's end, I have NO idea why this problem keeps happening
or
how I
can correct it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this and
why
this
is
happening? Please help.








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