Microphone hears music with any speakers off?? And random issu

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Hi I'm new to this forum and since I didn't really get the answer to my question in most of the pages, I'll just ask for help in my own thread. Anyways!
There's lots of text coming up, so if you don't feel like reading it all (shame on you), just read what I marked with an arrow. What's an arrow? -> Just read.
So I got myself a X-Fi Xtreme Music few days ago, it's awesome and all, but yeah, that is so not the case when trying to plug my headset on the pc.
My old pc didn't have a soundcard so I got used to plug the headset to the front jacks and no problem, the microphone only recorded the sounds it was able to find flowing in the air. Ya know, waves and stuff. Now, with this new comp, I still do have front audio/mic jacks, but no sound! Geez I had to find out that I actually had to plug them onto the soundcard on the back of my PC. So yeah now everytime I try to plug them in I need to move like a ninja to get to the back of the PC. Table, cables and stuffs, ya know.
Tried installing the onboard sound driver to get at least sound from the front jack, but yeah. Success = 0 (its uninstalled now).
-> . Any way to get the front jack working without all these tedious tasks?
Okay that's the first problem. Now I got my headset on the soundcard after lots of effort, nice sound, microphone works, cool. But yeah today I went into teamspeak and people were telling me, "Darnit, I keep hearing myself in your headphones!!!"
How so, I am on headphones, I am not talking, my mic shouldn't send you anything!! What's the matter!!
"Yeah and I hear all your sounds and all, even the music you're playing on winamp!!"
Geez. He's right. I'm now in my own TS server and indeed, the microphone sends any sound ranging from speech to system sounds. It's like I'm having my microphone against the speakers, just that there are no speakers! No wonder anyone can hear any of my system sounds!!! And believe me I have tried messing with many options and I keep getting the same results. Heck, anything gets through with any speakers disabled, total silence in the room!!
Control panel. Output volume to 0, oh, yeah! The microphone only sends the sounds that it gets from outside, as I know it from any computer. Noone hears anything else than what I speak... including me! Obviously, since sound output is set to 0 lol. Meaning, from now on I'm doomed to play my games without sound but then at least I can talk properly in Teamspeak? Oh sorry not only on TS but for any applications the microphone is used.
-> 2. Any way to set the microphone so that it does NOT get the output sounds and ONLY what comes from outside, meaning, speech, random noise in my room, etc. Please do NOT tell me that the issue is hardware-bound and thus not possible. I would immediately get rid of this sound card cuz it's definitely a shame.
Sorry I am a bit in an bad mood since I got lots of complaints today because of this matter, and I simply can't find a rational way to fix the problems. Hope anyone takes the time to help me out quickly, because I'm not willing to put up with this issue too long either. Thanks in advanceMessage Edited by nekomilfy on 0-2-2006 0:6 AM

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Thanks for your quick answers. Well Jason: I forgot to specify that I already did all of that when I tried finding a solution to my problem in other threads. I spent lots of time trying all those different options out, but, no improvement whatsoever.
Yet I'll try one more time again, maybe it all needed a reboot. Who knows, M$ often contributes to this kind of failure as well...
No I just tried again, that doesn't work. Anything still gets through to the microphone. I don't know what to do
And, no way to get the front jacks running? except reinstalling onboard sound and hoping for the best (ie. no conflicts)? >_>Message Edited by nekomilfy on 0-2-2006 02:2 PM