Sound Quality

Live messenger Video/web cam session receiving garbled sound

Running WIN XP, updated all drivers to include bios and realtek audio. When in a web cam live session, the person I am talking to can hear my audio very clearly, but I can not receive their audio clearly. It is always garbled. I am using a separate mike from the camera. It also appears that...

Sound card configuration issues on XP: device won't show up in BIOS or control panel

I've been trying to help a college buddy fix his PC. Here's the issue: Using Windows XP, he was having a video problem which caused him to change settings, after which couldn't see the screen. So without recourse, he restarted WinXp from its last known good config. That last known good config...