IMac (Late 2009) internal microphone not working

Hi!
My internal microphone is no longer working in any applications. Under System preferences and Sound I have selected Internal microphone and the input volume is set to max but I get no readings from the input level, it's dead. I have no external microphone installed or anything else connected to my iMac. I installed Teamspeak client on my iMac the other day and when I did the microphone calibration I got for some reason readings on the input level when i gently knocked on my iMac, but for some reason I didn't get anything when i tried to speak...go figure.
Any ideas?

That didn't work
I will consider taking it in for a repair then...
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