Microphone picks up sound but i have to yell for the system to really recognize what i am saying. my computer recently crashed and i had to disable then enable my headset for it to actually work. but it is not just the headset i do not think the built in microphone at the top of my screen works either.

Check the web-site of the manufacturer of the computer (and the motherboard) to see if they have updated device-drivers for Windows 7.

Are you sure that you've plugged the microphone into the 'pink' ("microphone-in") socket?

Open the "sound-mixer" application, and check that the "microphone-in" is not muted,
and that the slider is pushed to the maximum level.

Try a different microphone.

You need to go into the audio settings via
Admin Settings
Audio Settings
and make sure Enable Polycom Microphone is checked off.
Reboot and see if your microphone is recognized.

Make sure you are using headphones and turn up the system volume so you don't get feedback.

Go to Control Panel to "Sound and Audio Devices"
Select the Audio tab, select the device you want.
Sometimes, you have to go as far as going to the Device manager
(right click My Computer/Properties/device Manager) and select the microphone under the Multimedia options and disable it.
This should disable the ON BOARD microphone built in.
Then you can plug yours in the MIC jack.

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Hello,

Have you checked if the option for the Microphone is selected? Go to the Sound settings and then click Option/s. Make sure Microphone or Mic is selected.

Thanks!

Lyzmorato

If the internal microphone is still "on", then it could be picking up internal sounds resonating within the computer when the fan kicks on, hard drive clicks and clunks, ect.

See if you can disable the internal microphone in the system settings.

When firefox crashes, it creates a report that explains the crash and possible causes. If your firefox can open the point where you can enter addresses, you could type - [about:crashes] to access these reports. pick the report that is similar to your crash and you can send it to Mozilla Firefox for clarification.
However a series of known issues could be causing your browser to crash; For example, if you have old version of the Google tollbar installed in your firefox broser, it could be the cause behind the crash. Also, if you have the vlc media player plugin installed, your browser might crash when you try to play videos that would play with Windows Media player by default. In addition, if you have Yahoo Messenger installed, trying to aces yahoomail could cause the broswer to crash. And the list goes on. So the thing you could do is try and remember what plugins you could have installed or updated, what software you installed prior to your firefox crashing and uninstall them, or even simply disable them for a bit. In addition, check and make sure your Anti-Virus is really up-to-date and that A full scan happened most recently. Malwares are prone to causing random computer behaviour

For Vista:
1) go to Start > Control Panel > Sound
2) click the recording tab
3) Right click the device that is not the new one you bought.
4) choose Disable

For XP:
1) Right click My Computer or go to Start > Control Panel > System
2) On the system window click the hardware tab
3) Click the Device Manager button
4) Scroll down to the Sound, video and game controllers.
5) Look for any device that is not your new mic as well as your sound card.
6) Right click and disable anything that are not the mentioned above.
7) Exit and test.

If you have XP and the XP Method above doesnt work then please make a comment stating so so I can give you another solution.

Check if you selected the mic as the default audio input on the respective programs.

You need to install the sound card drivers for your PC, check the cds / software that cvame with your PC, or go online to PC manufacturer's site to download drivers for your system.