Ever since I started using an external sound card (creative digital music LX) both my internal sound card (CMI 4 channel) and built in motherboard sound card’s mic do not work. During calibration, the mic would work, but when trying to use with yahoo messenger, no sound comes out. [yes, this a software problem]
I thought to myself that the internal and external sound cards MUST have a conflict with each other. So I removed the internal sound card thinking I would use the LINE IN connectors of the external sound card. But after learning that the creative soundcard does not support a mic (I emailed creative)
I now have 2 options:
1) not using the external sound card, opening up my PC AGAIN, installing the internal sound card again.
2) Buy a mic preamp and a new mic (yes im too lazy to open up the PC)
My question is, will a mic pre amp connected to the LINE IN of the creative sound card work?