It was fine when I left it. I Skype for hours and the sound from my lapel mic that lies on the desk is superb. Until this morning.
Wife says family called. No sound from us.
Sure enough, mic is dead. BUT...the Skype symbol on the Taskbar has changed to a sheet of paper! WTF?
Fiddle with wires and threaten it with a new mic. At this moment, sound booms out. Okay, that's a sort of clue...maybe a fix, but no, the daftness continues.
After much cussing, I find that Skype is looking for a telephone connection for its sound. Reset. Works on test program. Fixed? Nope.
The mic is now live at all times. Right on the cusp of feedback. In XP I would have simply muted the mic. Now, it's lying there echoing my cussing. But get this.
It's putting a delay - an echo - on the sound. For all the world, it sounds as though another program is trying to, or is, using the mic. ProcExp is not showing anything obvious, and any ????'s i've disabled with no response.
Tapping the desk gives a diminishing echo of about three pulses.
This symptoms might just be coincidence, and misleading, but pushing the old credulity button somewhat.
Anyone any ideas what could have triggered this
group of symptoms? Or who might be listening.
