broken my sound card?

[sthreallyobscure]

Hi

I've been trying to record my old cassettes onto the computer so that I can turn them into CDs. So I had the cassette player plugged into the line-in and I could hear the music on that channel so I know there was a signal. I had the recording source set right and nothing was muted, but the strange thing was that all the recording software (sound recorder, a jukebox program, Windows Movie Maker, WinDat) would just record silence. So I tried it on the mic port as well in case it was something to do with the cassette not being stereo. Still no joy, even with the volume on the cassette player turned up pretty high.

Anyway now I come to plug my mike and tv card back in, the same thing is happening - I can't record sound on TV or get anything from the mike. I can still hear the sound input - just can't capture it. Coud I have blown the inputs?

 

[BennyD]

i doubt the input have blown, as you can hear the sound, what soundcard is it?

 

[sthreallyobscure]

its onboard the gigabyte GA-8irxp

Creative 128 with a sigmatel codec

I thought it was unlikely to have blown the inputs, its certainly never happened before even with a full hifi wired in. But for some reason I am suddenly unable to capture any audio.

I've checked recording source, volumes, mutes, tried at least 4 different applications including creatives own recorder software. I dual boot XP and ME and the situation is identical with both. Ive tried the default windows drivers and the latest drivers on the gigabyte site.

I can't think of anything else.

 

[BennyD]

well the sound from the line in/ microphone is normally just fed through to the speaker outs by most soundcards so it sounds like there's a problem between the soundcard and motherboard.

if it was not an onboard one i'd suggest trying different slots but that isn't possible.

have you tried a different source attached to the line in appart from you mic?

like a cd player or something?

is there any options for the soundcard in the bios?

the software i use is goldwave which works well for me, but you say you have tried lots of software.

the only other thing i'd suggest is to get a cheap soundcard and test it with that.

hope you can get it to work

ben