Okay, I just bought a new headset to use Ventrilo. Now, this is an HP Digital Premium Stereo Headset, which should work using the USB it came with, despite having another set of Mic/Headphone ports. The drivers and such installed fine, but there's two issues I'm having.
1) The sound isn't going through the headphones, but is acting like they're not even there and playing through the speakers.
2) The mic itself will pick up pretty much any noise, except my voice, no matter how loud I speak.
As for trying to fix the problem. I've tried:
a) using the original Mic/Headphone ports, which allows me to get the sound through the headphones, but my mic still won't register my voice.
b) tried going to the HP website to find a solution (completely useless...)
c) tried reconfiguring the mic, where it gave me directions on how to change the Sound Input Level (Click Start, point to Programs, then Accessories, then Entertainment, and then select Volume Control) Thing is, for some reason, my Entertainment folder is empty, I don't have the Volume Control, so I can't go any further.
d) I have tried using other USB ports thinking that maybe the one I was using has an issue, but they all have the same result.
I haven't made any recent changes to my system or configuration
Operating system: Windows Vista (Home Basic I think) And I'm pretty sure my OS is 32-bit
My system is a Toshiba Satellite laptop (model A200 -AH5)
Please help if you can. I'm no technical genius, and the more I try to fix this myself the more frustrated I'm becoming... I can try to supply more info if needed...
1) The sound isn't going through the headphones, but is acting like they're not even there and playing through the speakers.
2) The mic itself will pick up pretty much any noise, except my voice, no matter how loud I speak.
As for trying to fix the problem. I've tried:
a) using the original Mic/Headphone ports, which allows me to get the sound through the headphones, but my mic still won't register my voice.
b) tried going to the HP website to find a solution (completely useless...)
c) tried reconfiguring the mic, where it gave me directions on how to change the Sound Input Level (Click Start, point to Programs, then Accessories, then Entertainment, and then select Volume Control) Thing is, for some reason, my Entertainment folder is empty, I don't have the Volume Control, so I can't go any further.
d) I have tried using other USB ports thinking that maybe the one I was using has an issue, but they all have the same result.
I haven't made any recent changes to my system or configuration
Operating system: Windows Vista (Home Basic I think) And I'm pretty sure my OS is 32-bit
My system is a Toshiba Satellite laptop (model A200 -AH5)
Please help if you can. I'm no technical genius, and the more I try to fix this myself the more frustrated I'm becoming... I can try to supply more info if needed...