Microphone not working in Windows 7 - Thinkpad X22 2662 95G

[moonklash]

Hello there,

After experiencing dropping network connections under Windows XP I've upgraded to Windows 7. The laptop is running nicely, and everything is working (including audio), except the microphone. This is a little frustrating as I use Skype for work.

When I look the recording devices, the microphone is listed as currently unavailable:


No devices appear to be disabled in the device manager:


When I first installed Windows 7, it was a bit of a struggle getting some programs up and running. Audio was an issue, and I believe the drivers came down via Windows update (although I also tried installing the ones from the Lenovo website, I'm not sure now which actually worked).

I'm at a loss for what else to do, except go back to Windows XP - but I'm reluctant to do this as Windows 7 is working a lot better than I expected and fixed the previous problem with wireless networking via different PCMCIA cards. Any thoughts as to what else I can try?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer!

Regards,

Stu.