Using an external Mic using XP on iMac

Hi all,
I'm having a big problem, conneting a pre-amplified sony mic running XP on my iMac the Realtek Audio system recongize only the incorporated mic and I don't know how switch the system to my external mic... (the mic works fine on OSX 10.6)

So the various 'F2', 'Command-F7', etc, etc, didn't work. But I did find a simple solution: I used my Fiancé’s MacBook Pro that has an Ethernet port, connected via Command-k, and transferred about 40GB so far. Pretty painless, and I can get dthe data to one of my multiple-TB external drives from her computer. Using her computer hadn't entered my mind...
Disappointing that I couldn't get the video out to work, but at least I'm getting the data off. I'm going to try the 'firewire/Target mode' idea later, when I need to erase the drive, etc.
Thanks for the help!

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The operative word here is "Line"
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