My microphone stopped working when i plugged it out, and then back in. ive tried all settings posible (i think), reformating the OS, resetting BIOS to default, installing new soundcard, installing USB soundcard, but nothing seems to work. However: when i connect an iphone earplug in the mic port, and talk into one of the EARPLUGS it seems to work fine. Im lost, please find me...

what OS , no OS state, is this dead XP, ?
or WINDOWS 7??????
LEARN THAT DRIVERS MUST MATCH
Both the PC (exactly) and the OS loaded.
here are the w7 drivers, load them.

click multi-media here. see that cyberlink, cam

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-pavilion-dv7-6100-entertainment-notebook-pc-series/5082216/model/5118973


looks like support is until 2021... good news for you.
what I'd do is back all those drivers up so you dont need to find them when they get corrupted.

did you install W10 in this box.
yes, bingo 2.... lots of things dead. oops.

once you finish the set up. u must disconnect the microphone cord.
it will be red in colour mostly.

have you recently installed new os or been into the bios for whatever reason.


quite often when restart from bios mousepad doesnt work;usually comes back on after shut down and reboot(not restart)


if you think drivers gone download drivers.

Hope it helps.

maybe it is your motherboard, reset bios ... because you can see anything do as it follows , unlupg power coard-open case - pull out little silver battery- wait 10 sec-put it back in- switch power cord and start your computer.. that will reset your bios. cmos more exactlly... if you see the boot menu it is ok.. but if you can go to os.. then you must set you bios video output to pci... try and write back

start the laptop with a old windows 98 cd,then use the fdisk command,then youll be able to go from there

Try opening in safe mode on a reset ,

Hi mgcook86! I will be glad to assist you in this issue. There are resons why the web cam stops working. here are the posibility:
1. The device is total broken. check the physical device if there is a presence of broken or damage cable or something else.
2. The driver for the web cam is corrupted or deleted from the device manager. If this is the case, check on the device manager if the web cam driver is installed, If the driver is installed, uninstall it and re install the driver and that will fix the issue.
3. If your web cam is a built in with the laptop, check the bios settings of the laptop, possibly the device is turn off from the bios.
4. It could be a virus issue, if the device is working for the last few days and just stop working, try to restore the operating system earlier than the time that it stop working, it could be a virus issue that corrupt the registry of your O.S.

To make sure you install back again your Windows Vista and Windows XP is this.
First:

1. Go to Bios Setup and change the setting of your Hard Disk drive from Sata to IDE mode.
2. Boot priority the CD/DVD Rom to run your Bootable CD/DVD.

This setting are quietly working, good luck!

hello, open the case unplug the comuter, take out the litium battery,looks like a coin, near that a three pin header, with a jumper on move it to the other 2 pins..count to twenty-put it back the way it was-put the battery back in-plug it in-and you should be able to change the boot order. you may have to set other bios options. this is the way to reset the passwords, this resets it to default. hope this helps! goodluck!

I had exactly the same problem with my kids PC last week, also an Asus on an AMD flatform. I reset the BIOS and clean install the OS and now its working fine. You have to reformat the harddisk, cause in my case it doesn't show its exact capacity when I it hooked it up as slave drive with my own PC. Maybe a virus did it.