Line-in to sound card - no sound, no volume display

Phonograph player into line-in on SigmaTel sound card has no sound. This
worked w/ XP, stopped after Vista installed. Speakers work fine on everything
else.
Windows Vista help says go to speakers properties, & lin-in is mute by
default. (Help picture shows Volume control,Phone Line,Line-in, Aux &
Micrphone; but when I go there mine only displays the volume control & the
other items are midssing, so I can't unmute. I can't record anything.

If the phonograph player is just a turntable meant to be plugged into a
stereo system the output will be far too low for an computer input. You will
either need to plug it into an amplifier system with a "line out" first and
then plug that into you computer, or obtain an inline amplifier that
duplicates that function.


"JRW" <JRW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:53656E4E-AB65-499B-BCD8-71F59391BAB5@microsoft.com...
> Phonograph player into line-in on SigmaTel sound card has no sound. This
> worked w/ XP, stopped after Vista installed. Speakers work fine on
> everything
> else.
> Windows Vista help says go to speakers properties, & lin-in is mute by
> default. (Help picture shows Volume control,Phone Line,Line-in, Aux &
> Micrphone; but when I go there mine only displays the volume control & the
> other items are midssing, so I can't unmute. I can't record anything.

I had a sound problem with my onboard SigmaTel audio following an upgrade to
Vista. In the end I updated the driver for SigmaTel audio for my motherboard
from the Intel site and it solved my problem. Just one of the XP to Vista
bugs! Hope this helps you.
--
TimboTen

"JRW" wrote:

> Phonograph player into line-in on SigmaTel sound card has no sound. This
> worked w/ XP, stopped after Vista installed. Speakers work fine on everything
> else.
> Windows Vista help says go to speakers properties, & lin-in is mute by
> default. (Help picture shows Volume control,Phone Line,Line-in, Aux &
> Micrphone; but when I go there mine only displays the volume control & the
> other items are midssing, so I can't unmute. I can't record anything.

Thanks for your reply - it sounded like the answer, so I downloaded the
latest SigmaTel driver from Intel, but it didn't work. When I try to check
SigmaTel through the Control Panel, it says the driver is "inaccessable. Make
sure it is installed and enabled." Checking for the line-in connection, it
says Digital Input Device (SPDIF): High Definition Audio Device is working
but not plugged in (it is, of course, & was working before Vista.) It also
says it's a Microsoft driver, not Intel. Did it replace & disable the Intel
driver? My Intel board is a D946GZIS.

"TimboTen" wrote:

> I had a sound problem with my onboard SigmaTel audio following an upgrade to
> Vista. In the end I updated the driver for SigmaTel audio for my motherboard
> from the Intel site and it solved my problem. Just one of the XP to Vista
> bugs! Hope this helps you.
> --
> TimboTen
>
> "JRW" wrote:
>
> > Phonograph player into line-in on SigmaTel sound card has no sound. This
> > worked w/ XP, stopped after Vista installed. Speakers work fine on everything
> > else.
> > Windows Vista help says go to speakers properties, & lin-in is mute by
> > default. (Help picture shows Volume control,Phone Line,Line-in, Aux &
> > Micrphone; but when I go there mine only displays the volume control & the
> > other items are midssing, so I can't unmute. I can't record anything.