Microphone doesn't work

Dear forum,

I've been trying to record my voice (spoken text) with a microphone that worked well in the past on my previous pc. On my current pc (see 3w.jiltdijk.nl/PC-specifications/Hardware.htm, search for "hd audio") I got it to work after installing a driver called Soundmax, but the quality was very low. After uninstalling and reinstalling different versions of this driver, I'm back to a non-working microphone. Can anyone tell me, based on the pc specs, what driver I need to make the mic work properly?

Thank you very much in advance!

Kind regards,
Jilt

If you go to the ASUS support page you can search the downloads for your motherboard 'Asus P5VD2-VM' they have a Vista drvier and Soundmax download there.

These should get the board working.

Quite often a lot of moatherboards with support for HD audio are wired incorrectly to the front panel making them not work properly. If you are not sure you can unplug the front panel connector on your motherboard and use the connector on the back to plug in your microphone. If this is the case do this (unplug the from panel audio connector) before installing and configuring soundmax so it does not incorrectly map the audio ports.

Thank you very much for your reply. With the back connector it actually works, but the driver appears to have a setting "Microphone front panel" that makes it work too. It's all quite confusing, and quality is still varying from very low to acceptable, even if I speak with the same microphone distance and the same voice volume (or so I think). I'm going to try some more settings and then reinstall again, because I actually did change the connector AFTER installing Soundmax.

Thanks again,

Kind regards,
Jilt

Yes, although I have noticed on several cases the front panel is not always wired correctly as you would expect.

The software just knows about the chipset and what is supposed to be there, not how it is actually wired up.