Dell Vostro 3500 Microphone Not Working

I have a problem that's been pestering me for quite a while. About three years ago I began to intermittently lose sound from the intergrated speakers on my Dell Inspiron 6000. This loss became more and more frequent, and as of now I cannot play the sound from the onboard speakers unless I place something into my headphone or microphone jacks. To be more descriptive, I take a 1/8' headphone jack plug and stick it in about halfway, then angle it downward and hold it there. I usually use my wallet to prop against the plug -- it's thick enough to hold it in place, but not too thick to break the plug or jack. This, and only this, usually gets the sound to work from the external speakers.

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The headphone jack used to work just fine otherwise, but has over time stopped transmitting sound more and more to the headphones.

About two years ago, I tore apart the whole enchilada. There were no broken wires anywhere, and the headphone/mic jacks were soldered to the motherboard. I looked around and nothing appeared to be burned out.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about fixing this problem? The laptop runs like a champ, even though it's approaching 4 years.

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Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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DELL Vostro 1700 had this problem but solution is as follows

Open Control Panel

Choose Sounds

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Choose Properties

Set balance between speakers and headphones eg 15%

I have almost the same thing but what happend with me was. I had my headset on my Head and i walked/running away but my headset was still on my head and now my mic input is broken and i dont know how to fix iT

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I need to do some recording of voice + video together. This is on Windows 7 using a Dell Vostro 2420 laptop.

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When I try to record the video using the mike that comes with my headphones, it works (though the volume is a bit low). But when I try to record the video using the laptop's built-in mike, it does not work - the video does get recorded but no sound of me speaking is heard.

Why is this happening?

Thanks for any help or pointers.

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Recording and playback devices are enumerated in Windows environments, and while Windows SHOULD select the proper device depending on the presence/status of devices, this is not always the case.

If none of the below works, you should ensure that your audio/motherboard drivers are up-to-date and functioning properly before trying again.

Try right-clicking on your volume control and selecting Recording Devices (or alternately bring up your start-menu and typing manage audio devices or change sound card settings in the search box to access your sound settings; go to the Recording tab).

This panel should display a list of recording interfaces accessible to your system. Select the device that corresponds to your built-in microphone, and select the Set Default button near the bottom-right corner of the window.

If you find that this has not alleviated the issue, you may need to adjust your device's properties by selecting it and clicking the Properties button to ensure that the device is not muted or recording at an excessively low level.

If the device still fails to record properly, you may try selecting the device and clicking Configure, then Set up microphone to step through a Windows wizard in order to configure the device.

The pictures and many of the instructions above are from a guide on the defunct site 7tutorials.com, now preserved on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Good luck!

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