Acer 5672 Microphone issue

[Schlagzeuger]

I am having a hard time getting my Acer 5672 to work with Skype. For some reason, the microphone inputs do not seem to be active when I am on battery. I have looked around in the forum and through the various menus in power management, and I can't seem to find out why. any ideas?

[SSX4life]

under the realtek audio control panel you need to enable microphone boost

Go to control panel, the realtek control panel, enable boost, try it out.

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[Schlagzeuger]

in my Realtek microphone control panel i have only 2 options: noise suppression and acoustic noise cancellation. I am using Realtek's driver 5.10.00.5172. Is there a different driver I should be using for this notebook?

[Q8PHANTOM]

yeah u must got latest driver from sticky thread here thene double click on red realtek taskbar icon >> mixer tab >> follow my pics



is there any thing easiear :-)
thanks

[grocky]

I have a "dumb" question.

On the realtek options as displayed above, how come there are no "sliders" on the Line Volume and Mic Volume on the Audio Input half. Does that not control the "input record volume" ?

What am I missing here ?

[Q8PHANTOM]

that slider is not the problem
u can test by record any sound

[Schlagzeuger]

yes, it is odd that there are no sliders in the record section.
thanks, q8phantom, for the screenshots and the help. i got my problem worked out.

[Q8PHANTOM]

your welcome
that's my first help in that site

[Rob500]

I've just started using Skype on my 5672 and found this thread as my microphone did not seem to be picking up much sound. I've followed the recommended action here to switch on the microphone boost - thanks q8phantom.

Despite that though the sound being picked up (e.g. by the Skype test call) is still very quiet - is that because the microphone in the 5672 is just not much good or could there be some other problem? Would it be much better if I bought a usb microphone and headset?

[anchemis]

tune up the volume of the mic / recording vol.

or get an external mic!