Microphone issue on Equium A210-1AS

I recently purchased the A210-1as
I have tried to get sound from my microphone to no avail. I've tried all possible settings - a bit of a techie myself but still no joy
any helpers?
Thanks
Paul

First of all you should update the sound driver.
Check the Toshiba driver page for new versions.
Secondly you should access the control panel and should check the sound settings.
In the new windows you should choose the tab called Recording and there you could choose you external microphone.
You can also configure it as you want.
In the control panel you will find also the voice/speech recognition settings. This setting contains the mic configuration too.
Go trough the single options and check if something was disabled.
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