ASUS G51VX Microphone/Speaker Issue

[djdavis1420]

Hey all. I apologize for the length of this post, but I need to describe the situation clearly, so here I go.

When I have my sound unmuted, I hear a sort of pulsing hum. I know exactly what causing it. My microphone is picking up the sound of my computer simply being on. When I mute the speakers, this hum goes away. However, I use my speakers constantly. On the other hand, I *never* use the microphone, so I tried disabling it using the Windows 7 "Recording Devices" panel. When I mute the microphone, the humming doesn't go away.

Both enabled or disabled, the microphone picks up noise. If I blow at it, I can hear the air running over the microphone. If I run my thumb across the microphone, it picks up the sound of my thumb moving across the plastic. It's like it's over-sensitive, and I can't disable it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? It's literally driving me bonkers.


Thanks!
djdavis1420

 

[djdavis1420]

I can't seem to find a way to delete my post, but I've fixed the problem. Please disregard.

((Just in case anyone else has this issue...Mute your microphone's playback volume, which is different than your microphone's recording volume. I wasn't able to do this in the Windows 7 microphone control panel, but if you have a program directly from your sound card manufacturer, that did the trick for me. I would have thought that disabling the microphone altogether would have muted it, but I guess not...))