Built in microphone stopped working

Hi,
I have a NW8440 notebook running XP Professional Service Pack 2 with SoundMax Integrated Digital HD Audio.
I have used both the built-in microphone as well as a headset with microphone plugged into the headset and microphone jacks for several months, both with Skype and with recording software. Within the last week, both microphones stopped working with no error messages. Speaking into the microphone in Sound Recorder shows no change in the recording level, and playing back the recording only plays random noise. Playback of saved files or internet downloads still works fine.
I tried updating the SoundMax driver to the 10/1/2007 5.10.1.5210 version on the HP website with no effect.
One thing I'm wondering about is that several websites I've seen indicate that both the playback and recording dialogs of the Volume Control should show a column for microphone. In my case, however, microphone only appears as an option on the recording dialog, and when I click Options | Properties to click the checkbox to add it to the playback dialog, I find that microphone is not one of the listed choices there either.
Any ideas or help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Ricky,
Open Audio Midi Setup in Applications>Utilities, see the input & output options & KHz setting there, some things will change it for their own use, then not set it back.

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