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Headset Boom Mic is constantly being muted

falcon409

falcon409

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How is it that months and months can go by with this headset and boom mic working flawlessly and then one morning I turn on the computer, get into Teamspeak and the mic is constantly being muted? Nothing has changed as far as device drivers. . .my routine is the same every single day, I get up, start the PC, get some coffee, load Teamspeak and Bill (WND) and I converse about all things FlightSim. There's nothing complicated about hitting the "ON" switch to start the PC. Yet it works one day. . .I close things out for the night. . .turn it back on in the morning and it's as though it has Alzheimer's and can't remember anything.:redfire::redfire::banghead::banghead:
 
I don't know Ed. We're getting along in years. Some mornings things work and some mornings they don't. :banghead:
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Check your sound settings in Control Panel to see if your headset is the default communications device. There are some options for auto-muting that might be responsible for what you're getting.
 
I have checked everything dozens of times over the past few days and to be honest, I haven't seen anything anywhere that relates to "auto-muting".
 
MarkH said:
Control Panel/Sound/Communications
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Yep, and/or check the little speaker icon in the right hand tray of the task bar. I sometimes turn the volume way down on video I'm watching and it seems to change that as well which effects everything else.
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fsafranek said:
Yep, and/or check the little speaker icon in the right hand tray of the task bar. I sometimes turn the volume way down on video I'm watching and it seems to change that as well which effects everything else.
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Nope this isn't a case of volume turned down, this is going into the sound menu, selecting "Recording", then "levels" and seeing the speaker symbol muted, as in a red slash through the icon. If I select it to remove the mute and raise the slider to a mid range volume and save. . .I can close everything out. . .go back to that same menu and the "Mic" is muted again.

I use a headset/boom mic but the "mic" is the only thing affected. I can run the Mic Configuration program, I can see the progress bar shows that my voice is recognized, I can complete the setup and save. . .yet it makes no difference. Something is causing this and I am at a loss to figure out what. I want to blame it on Win10, or it's invisible updates because that's the most obvious, but I just don't know.
 
Suddenly my X-52 j/s is not recognised by W10. Oddly my Russian VKB is functioning just fine. Do I smell Russian collusion? :dizzy:
 
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