Ok i have never used a mic, never had a reason to until now. Anyway i have a project going on with a friend and need to speak to him with a mic, so i bought a cheap desk mic from Maplins and i cannot get it to work.

My motherboard is the Abit BG7 (none raid) windows XP pro. i have a sound blaster live 5.1 card.

So if there is any tips anyone can give me it would be greatly appreciated.

Presume i have not got a clue (true) what is it i need to do. I thought it was a matter of plug and play but it seems not.

Thanx..