Acer Aspire 5720Z V1.19
Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2 (build 6002)
1.60 GIGAHERTZ Intel Pentium Dual
WDC WD1600BEVS-22RST0 [Hard drive] (160.04 GB)
2038 Megabytes Usable INSTALLED Memory
Realtek High Definition Audio V. 6.0.1.5443

Hello everyone:

 This is my question, How can I monitor input sound in my laptop?
I had Google the same question for a while and apparently Vista disable this option on laptops.

I had found INFORMATION of how to do it on the SigmaTel High Definition Audio, but not on the Realtek HD Audio...

If someone had found the solution, please let me know.


Monitor as in record?

And does your Sound Icon appear in the system tray(there have been several instanses of it not appearing)?Yes, the sound Icon is show on the tool bar, but the problem is not there. I have another PC that have the same driver Realtek HD but since it didn't come with and inboard mic like my laptop, it has the 2 option of input or mic volume. In my laptop there is only one option. Yes monitoring the sound while recording.... I can do that with my desktop, but not with my laptop... Some cards support this feature, some don't.  I would suggest contacting the manufacturer of the laptop to find out if yours does.What specifically is the sound device that the recorded sound is coming from? It might be POSSIBLE to physically set up an additional line out/microphone/headset configuration that will ALLOW monitoring from the source rather than the computer.truenorth