My Pismo's microphone is dead

Hi out there,
a few days ago the internal microphone of my Pismo ceased service from one to the other second. So I bought a new one including the control PCB and replaced the damaged one. But I can't get a signal from it...
Can anyone tell me what else could be wrong/damaged inside my Pismo?
Regards from Germany
Ansgar
MacBook Pro 17", 2.16 GHz Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9) 100 GByte SATA HD, 1 GByte RAM, 256 MByte VRAM

Hi juhi854,
If you are having microphone issues with your iPhone, you may find the following article helpful:
iPhone: Microphone issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5183
Regards,
- Brenden

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Message was edited by: jpl

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