I am on a MacBook Pro, Late 2008 edition using Boot Camp to run Windows XP with SP3. I tried to voice chat with my friends a few months ago using my internal microphone, and the microphone was very quiet and made a horrible scratching sound when I talked.
After spending a little while searching the internet, I learned that the sound drivers on Boot Camp are horrible and that a USB headset would fix this, because they contain their own sound drivers. I purchased one about a month and a half ago, and it's been working great up until a few days ago when I was on Skype with my friends for the first time whilst playing Minecraft.
Suddenly, the computer started "freaking out", the desktop background was a pixel-y mess, and my computer got a brief "blue screen of death", I think it was. The blue screen appeared for about .5 seconds before my computer restarted and then returned back to normal, but when I tried to return to Skype, my friends told me that my headset was making a horrible scratching noise. It's the noise similar to the one that my internal mic was making before I purchased my USB headset. Since then, my headset has been making a horrible static noise whenever I talk.
If anyone could give me a shred of advice or at least tell me if it's just my headset, or my computer, or WHAT, I would greatly appreciate it.
After spending a little while searching the internet, I learned that the sound drivers on Boot Camp are horrible and that a USB headset would fix this, because they contain their own sound drivers. I purchased one about a month and a half ago, and it's been working great up until a few days ago when I was on Skype with my friends for the first time whilst playing Minecraft.
Suddenly, the computer started "freaking out", the desktop background was a pixel-y mess, and my computer got a brief "blue screen of death", I think it was. The blue screen appeared for about .5 seconds before my computer restarted and then returned back to normal, but when I tried to return to Skype, my friends told me that my headset was making a horrible scratching noise. It's the noise similar to the one that my internal mic was making before I purchased my USB headset. Since then, my headset has been making a horrible static noise whenever I talk.
If anyone could give me a shred of advice or at least tell me if it's just my headset, or my computer, or WHAT, I would greatly appreciate it.