Vista, Audigy LS and the microph

I've upgraded my system to Vista Business, and my sound is working fine with the Audigy LS. However, the microphone jack in the control panel says that it is unavailable. I cannot find anyway to enable, activate or anything. I can see on the boards, that I'm not the only one having serious issues Sound Blaster cards in Vista.
I tried searching through the boards for a fix, but I haven't seen anything.
Does anyone know a fix for this, or am I waiting for a new driver?like everyone else?

michelinok,
Have you tried headphones or a set of stereo speakers in the green jack and then run the Speaker Settings speaker test? Also, you could try the front (working) speaker plug in the other output jacks (black and yellow/orange).
michelinok wrote:
Finally i found that all the sound come from only one connector, the green one on the motherboards...still in trouble....

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