recording slider mutes playback

[Gale_Andrews]

@mike pickwick

I checked the HP website and the latest driver that they had is two years older than the one on my computer. So I found the HP user’s forum and asked how to find the latest driver

I got onto the HP forum and got this response:

Solution! Re: Audio driver on HP support page older than driver on machine
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‎06-20-2015 04:53 PM
Hi:

You can get the latest Realtek HD audio driver from the link below.

Accept the agreement. DL and install the first driver shown in green for WXP.

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownT…
I went to the site and it is the Realtek site and the driver files are only specific for a range of Operating Systems. In one of your posts you advised not getting a driver in this way.

Absolutely so - the drivers on the Realtek site are generic and not matched to your motherboard, so I think you received a poor answer from HP if they did not point that out.

Why do you have a more modern driver than the supported HP driver for Windows XP? Have you tried HP’s supported driver?

@mike pickwick

Is it possible that my installation or the way I set up Audacity 2.1.0 is causing this?

No. It is a problem with your sound device.

Please also see Important information for Windows XP users about the security risk of running XP now that Microsoft no longer support it.


Gale