Oh dear! I think that's kind of what we were afraid would be the case. We'll have to talk to our friend. Sheesh! What a pity! She wants to participate in ACB Radio's Tuesday Topics and probably other chats. Is there any way at all she could at least use this card for that? She's a real computer newbie, and may not want to do anything sophisticated. She does hear the beep when pressing the control key but no one can hear her. Sheesh! Is this really hopeless as it sounds?
Thanks again. Pam -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of DJ DOCTOR P Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:30 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Friend Needs Help With Sound Card Hello Pam, SOUND MAX is not a good sound card. My DELL system has one in it too as well. I don't use mine anymore because you can't monitor the live recordings and or live chats. She can either use an internal sound card or an external USB sound card. SOUND BLASTER would be a good place to start. http://www.soundblaster.com is the web address. My best regards! John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Drake" <pamdr...@drakelroy.com> To: <blindt...@yahoogroups.com>; "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:38 PM Subject: Friend Needs Help With Sound Card > Please forgive the cross post, but we are trying to help a young lady > with a sound card we don't know anything about, and are hoping to find > someone on one of these two lists who might be able to assist. > > . It is the Soundmax HD Audio card, and came with her Dell desktop > computer. She knows little about the machine, but would like to > participate in audio chats. > > We are working by phone and she is in another city/State, so we're > flying blind, no pun intended. > We have followed all the usual procedures for a Windows sound card, > but so far nothing is obvious. We believe the mic is muted, and can't > figure out how to unmute it. There are two checkboxes whose checked > or unchecked status we don't understand, and there appears to be a > rear speaker recording capability as well. There appear to be jacks > both on the front and rear, and she's not sure which is which. She > says the mic was plugged in at Wal-Mart, but she has not attempted to > do anything with it herself. Dave did have her check the mic and > uncheck the rear speaker, but this did no good. She had sound coming > out of her speakers, but Dave was able to help her silence it. > > This is all the information I can offer, so hope it will be enough to > give this lady some help. It appears she received the computer system > with little instruction. > > Thanks in advance. > > Pam Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
