G570 Windows 7 microphone problems (choppy sound when recording)

Good morning,
I have a nice Lenovo G570 with Windows 7 that has been running perfectly for quite a while. I have some old audio tracks (multi-track recordings) that I have done using Audacity on an ancient Windows XP desktop.
I installed a new version of Audacity (64 bit) for Windows 7 from their website and it is fine. It opened up, displayed, and played the old audio tracks without a problem. It even allowed me to remix them as well.
My main problem is using the microphone and wanting to do some musical recordings and multi-track recordings on the Lenovo G570. I plug a Shure microphone (using a 1/8" adapter) into the mic jack on the side of the G570 and start to record. It works fine and allows me to record the first track (keyboards). But yet when I go to record the second track, while listening to the 1st track (i.e. multi-track), the microphone input dies out, gets choppy, fades back in to normal level, fades back out, etc...
I ran a test on the microphone jack and the drivers (Conexant SmartAudio HD)... I plugged my MP3 player into the mic jack using a stereo 1/8" cable and clicked "Listen to this device" and then clicked Apply. One of my MP3 tunes started playing, but was so awful and so choppy, I instantly knew I had a problem.
I downloaded the latest Conexant SmartAudio HD driver from your website - - 8.54.4.51 and installed it and rebooted. I still have the same problem with choppy audio when using the microphone for recording.
What gives? I performed the same test on my wife's Dell laptop (as seen above with my MP3 player), and a Beatles tune came through beautifully. You could hear Paul McCartney clearly singing, "Yesterday... All my troubles seemed so far away..." and it was not choppy at all. Then again, my wife's Dell laptop does not use Conexant SmartAudio HD for sound drivers.
Can you provide any help with this strange issue with using the microphone for recording so it won't come across all choppy?
Solved!
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Thanks for the reply. I got it worked out... I contacted Audacity and went over and over everything them. I downloaded and installed the latest audio drivers from Lenovo too (version 8.54.4.51). On my Lenovo G570 with the Conexant SmartAudio HD package, I had to do into the "recording devices" section of the audio after selecting the microphone (either internal or external - if it's plugged in). Then click on "Advanced" and go down to the checkboxes and uncheck:
Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device
Give exclusive mode applications priority
...and finally...
Enable audio enhancements
Click OK, exit out of it, close everything, reboot...
Sha-zam.. Audacity records perfectly fine without any problems, choppyness, cutting in/out, etc... and on all tracks, while other tracks are playing.

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