The internal microphone can't be found?

Yesterday evening my iBook G3 with OSX 10.3.4 crashed (don't ask me how).. anyway, now the internal microphone can't be found. In the sound settings it just says "no sound input device found". Does anyone know what to do about it?

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Chances are that the crash did some damage to your hard drive (which may or may not be the cause of your microphone problem).
Try booting into Safe Mode. This will take quite awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
You will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up in Safe Mode, try to restart normally, and go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say?
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar, and repair permissions on it.
See if a little hard drive maintenance helps things out.
Every time you have to do a forced shutdown (as when a crash occurs) instead of a normal one, there is a chance of hard drive damage and you should repair the hard drive, either by booting into Safe Mode or starting up from the Mac OS X Install Disk by inserting the disk and restarting your computer, holding down the C key at the end of the startup chime. Then choose Installer>Open Disk Utility and select the disk in the left column. Choose the First Aid tab. Click Repair Disk to test and repair the hard drive. Once you have repaired the hard drive with either Safe Mode or the Install CD's Disk Utility, then start up normally and repair permissions from Disk Utility in the Utilities folder on your hard drive.
If repairing the hard drive and repairing permissions does not correct the problem, you may want to consider upgrading your OS to 10.3.9. There was a certain version of OS 10.3 that did exhibit problems with the microphone not being recognized, but I'm uncertain as to which version that was, and if yours was recognized in 10.3.4 and then not, that probably isn't your problem. But an upgrade to 10.3.9 wouldn't hurt, following F.J.'s suggestions in the User Tip, Upgrade! But do it right!

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