Overwhelming noise when using microphone

Hi

I am running XP and Office 2000 Professional and after considerable effort
have just got my microphone to work. However, when my son uses it on his
gaming site their is a lot of loud disturbance (like waves crashing) on it so
you can only just make out the voice.

How do I rectify this? (note - it is not a USB microphone - if that makes a
difference)

TIA

Sue Compelling

Sue Compelling wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am running XP and Office 2000 Professional and after considerable effort
> have just got my microphone to work. However, when my son uses it on his
> gaming site their is a lot of loud disturbance (like waves crashing) on it so
> you can only just make out the voice.
>
> How do I rectify this? (note - it is not a USB microphone - if that makes a
> difference)
>
> TIA
>
> Sue Compelling

A game that uses audio, has additional software installed. There may be
echo suppression, and there is conversion to a format suitable for
networking.

What game is it (give the *full* name of the game - some games have add-ons etc.) ?

What is the name of the in-game communications, used by the game ?
(Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Roger Wilco etc.)

Your sound could be provided by AC'97 or HDaudio. Those are examples
of built-in sound solutions on the motherboard. The jacks are
located in the I/O plate area on the back of the computer.

The sound could also come from a PCI sound card (slim stack of jacks
on a PCI card faceplate).

You can test the microphone, using a local recording application.
An example of one I use is Audacity. But it isn't the easiest
thing to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity

Paul