Internal microphone.

Hello.
Can't seem to get the internal microphone to work.  Any ideas?

Greetings,
If you go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Sound > Input, does it say "Internal Microphone?
If so click on it and make noise and see if the sound input bar fluctuates.  Is there any response?
If not try the following resets:
-- SMC: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
-- PRAM: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/26871.html
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