Connections for head set that has microphone

[gogreen1]

New at pc. Have HP 8600 p3 128 megram. Got headphones w/microphone. Yamaha.
Front of pc has Ear phone jack on cd-r burner and on the cd-r tray. No microphone Jack. Back of pc has a microphone jack and an IN-OUT Audio jack.
Probably a simple solution. Would appreciate yor help. Thanks.

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Jim

[BigGeek02]

The jacks on your CD-drives are for listening to music CDs if you choose to put one of those in your computer. The back of your computer probably has a 4-spot sound card like a lot of computers do. There's a microphone spot, a speaker spot, a line-in and a line-out. Line-in is if you wanted to hook, for example, a MIDI keyboard up to the comp. Line-out is very similar to the speaker hook-up. It can take speakers or you can use it to run a wire to, for say, a stereo. The microphone jack is obviously for your microphone. You should be able to insert it and use some sort of recording program such as Sound Recorder(R) that comes w/ Win98. I'm not for sure on the headphones and microphone being on the same device thing. You might have to buy a separate microphone to use instead of that one. Check also. The website could have some useful input. I'm not sure what your question was, but I hope I answered it.

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[Paleo Pete]

Headphone mic shouldn't require a separate mic, it's made to be used as speakers and mic by itself. The mic goes into the mic jack and the headphones go into the speaker jack. They should be marked, and I think the HP is color coded, or might have small pictures.

Make sure you plug these into the sound card, and not the modem, it has mic and speaker jacks too. Those are for using the modem as a speaker phone.

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[gogreen1]

Thank you Big Geek 02 and Paleo Pete expert advice.

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Jim