Muted microphone

My internal microphone has become muted on Fact Time, and the mute setting is greyed out in the Video drop-down. How can I un-mute it? It IS working in other applications.

Silithi,
According to your post, it says that you're using osx 10.4.11. You need at least 10.6.6. to support facetime.http://www.apple.com/support/mac/facetime/getstarted/

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