ACER ASPIRE ONE 150X REALTEK SOUND CARDMICROPHONE FAULT

You may have to disable the onboard microphone to use the connected hardware.
Realtek is very picky, same goes with speakers connected to the back and front at the same time, no sound. Disable the one you are not using.

Try plugging in an external microphone. If it works, then your internal microphone has failed. If the external microphone also doesn't work, then try reloading the Realtek Audio Driver. There is also the possibility if you have previously used an external microphone, that the jack's connections have become unreliable such that the system thinks that an external microphone is still connected after it has been unplugged. With this situation, plugging an external microphone back in will obviously work.

Hi

I have just fixed this on my sons acer aspire one notebook

what i did was :-

go to

start
programes
down to acer empowering technology
then over to and click on
acer erecovery management
wait a few seconds
a box will open up saying acer erovery management
click on the reinstall applications/drivers
click on contents
then go down to and click on the green install bar for the realtek audio
windows will go throught the process of reloading the audio driver

that should now of fixed the microphone problem and if you write these instruction down they may be useful for other problems
also you now know where to restore back to factory settings as well
but if you ever do that please make sure to save any files or photos that you want onto a spare drive or burn to disk because a factory restore will loose everything and take it back to when you ist bought it and you will need to set it all up again and can be a long winded process but sometimes neccessary

good luck

please let us know if fixya has fixed it for ya

Hi,

You can reinstall the sound drivers from the Acer recovery management, to do so:
Start Menu> All Programs> Acer erecovery management> Restore> Restore Application & Drivers> Contents> Select Realtek and install it

OR

Got to http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/
Select the computer model
Select Operating System installed on your computer
Click Drivers
Select Audio (Realtek) and download it.
Once downloaded, install it on your computer.

Thanks and regards,
Jitha

Hello,

Please use one of the following links considering your operating system:

Acer Aspire 4736z XP Driver Download

Acer Aspire 4736z Vista Driver Download

Acer Aspire 4736z Windows & Driver Download

You can reinstall it. Click on Start Menu> All Programs> Acer erecovery management> Restore> Reinstall Application & Drivers> Select the appropriate sound driver (Realtek) and install it. Also visit http://support.acer.com/drivers_download.aspx
and select the appropriate model number and sound driver (realtek)

try disconnecting the speakers and the other stuff like mic camera and only plug the speakers in if it doesn't work get new speakers

To test the microphone, click "start" button, then "Control Panel", then "Sounds and Audio Devices". On the popup window that opens, click on the "Voice" tab, then click on the button that says "Test Hardware". After several seconds this will bring up a test program that will show a noise level meter when you're speaking into the microphone. (The default device listed under voice recording should be "Realtek HD Audio Input".)

Have you tried updating your sound drivers? You can click Start, then type in the box, devmgmt.msc , to see what your computer has.

Acer really seems to like Realtek cards. http://www.realtek.com.tw for the drivers -- probably the "High Definition Audio Drivers" is what you want, if you have the realtek card.

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