Why can't i record myself on my laptop?

I have the same problem it has happened before and it then worked just fine after, but now no matter what i tried such as re installing the headset i can not hear anybody in my xbox live party or myself, I tried recording a voice message to try and hear myself but nothing. I can however hear the game and can talk. I just can't hear any myself or anybody talking to me.

go to the control panel and and see the sound open and adjust the microphone for record and make test, if work is o.k. If not you must restore the computer to some date was working before.
Or your need reinstall the driver audio. coming with your CD, or software laptop in this HP Compaq.
God bless you

Check next to the camera there should be a small hole. That is the microphone. There should be a program on the laptop called voice recorder.

Good morning, afternoon, evening or night; whatever time of day you are viewing this solution. Thank you for choosing FixYa to solve your problem. The recording feature of your electronic device isn't working properly? You should try turning the volume up on the microphone so it can pick up your voice clearer when talking. If you still can't playback any recordings, check the volume settings of your device on your computer. This is located in the Control Panel (Windows) and the System Preferences (MAC OS) applications of your computer. Go into your operating system's preferences and increase the microphone volume. You may also need to select your headset device as the default recording device (Windows) or the Output Device for recording (MAC OS). If you want my opinion, I think your headset device is not set as the default recording device. If you don't have a headset as the default recording device or output recording device, you can turn the volume up to the maximum setting and you still won't be able to record anything because the computer has another device (if any microphones are installed in the PC) as its default or output recording device. That's why it's important to check your system preferences for a headset to make sure it has the proper settings. I hope you understand this solution and that you can record audio on your headset. Reply back if you need step-by-step instructions.

Hi, the HP Compaq Presario 2200 PC has no built in or internal microphone. You will have to purchase an external one to record audio. The microphone jack, when viewing the laptop from the front, is located on the left side.

There are small round holes which are jack ports. From the front to the back, the microphone port to plug in a microphone is the second hole back. Here is a manual in case you need more help with your laptop: Click Here.

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just buy one of those cheap microphones for your laptop from pound store plug it into pc then right click on the sound icon on your desktop select properties in there you will find an option for recording there is also a wizard to help you set it up hope this helps

It is very rare to find a built in microphone on a desktop computer.

Some laptops have it built into the screen.

It sounds like you have FEEDBACK

Open volume control.

When the box with all the sliders opens up click on OPTIONS (top left)
Click PROERTIES
Tick RECORDING then clck OK

The slider box will swap to the RECORDING slider box
Select the one you want to use as the recording SOURCE and put a tick in the box at the bottom.

NOW check that you dont have the microphone level turned too far up !
done it myself before now

Now click OPTIONS once again
Then PROPERTIES
Now tick PLAYBACK and then OK

You should now be back in the normal playback slider box
Whilst you were in the properties for either recordeing or playback you may have noticed a list of devices to show them as sliders tick them

Test your headset on a Sound/Voice recorder on your computer. If you hear yourself when you play the recorded sound, your headset is working. You may also test it on other computer just to verify if it's working.

Solution:

i) try somother headset(if you have spare ones...with u), if prob still exists there must problem with sound port(inbuilt sound on your laptop) which is not allowing the wire or chord of your headset to completely plugin to your laptop sound port.....

it is like this  connecting wire is  paritally inside your laptop sound port and partially outside and leading to sounds from both laptop speaker(builtin) and the headset you are connecting.....

Thanking you

M. Sridhar