Netbooks

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Sound Issues
If you have no sound and there is a red cross on the microphone icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Step 1.
If students have this problem a solution is to: This will reinstall the required driver.
 * 1) choose Start then Control Panel
 * 2) select Device Manager
 * 3) select Continue when prompted
 * 4) select Sound, video and game controllers
 * 5) right click on High Definition Audio Device
 * 6) select Uninstall
 * 7) choose OK
 * 8) select Action and choose Scan for hardware changes

Step 2.
To reset back to the internal microphone: The recording level is also now too low to record using Audacity effectively so:
 * 1) select Start then Control Panel
 * 2) click on Sound icon
 * 3) select Recording tab
 * 4) choose the top Microphone
 * 5) choose Set Default
 * 1) select the top microphone (now with a green tick)
 * 2) select Properties
 * 3) select Levels tab
 * 4) drag the Microphone level to the maximum (100)
 * 5) drag the Microphone Boost level to the maximum (+30.0dB)
 * 6) select OK
 * 7) close all boxes