Mic cuts out every 30 sec

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caleb2001r

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Hi everyone,
Like clockwork, my brother's microphone all of a sudden started cutting out every 25-30 seconds, and it cuts out for 10 secs consistently. We've tried gchat, skype, xfire, ventrilo, and it seems to keep doing it. We've also tried replacing the mic with no results - (mic was verified good)

It's odd - he's installed no software since it started happening, and to our knowledge is spyware and virus free.

We've tried both a stereo jack mic, and the USB mic and it still gives us issues.

Any ideas on how to start to diagnose an issue like this? Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Well, we ran it through an anti-virus sweep, S&D sweep, and used ccleaner to clean up is temps and clean up any registry errors. Restarted, and still nothing.

We then went through each process 1 by 1, and terminated non-essential process (even explorer.exe), and it still does it! I don't know what could be causing this to happen, but here are the cliff notes again:

- It does it 25 - 30 secs, consistently.
- When it goes out, it's out for 10 sec. consistently, then comes back
- In Google Talk, he can't hear me when his mic is cut out, but in other voice programs like xfire, he can hear me.
- His internet connection doesn't seem to lag when the mic cuts out.
- While gaming, his FPS doesn't lag at all. Sound works like normal.
- Recording isn't the issue (the mic). He can open up a program like Sony Vegas (video editing), and record for minutes on end just fine. The problem comes up only when he uses voice communication programs.

The only thing that happened before he started noticing the issue, was he picked up his computer and brought it to my house. We didn't use mics here because we didn't need them.

He brought the computer back home, installed xfire, and then started noticing the problem. We've since uninstalled xfire.

I've even had him install bandwidthmonitor, including the tcp connections addon, to see if there was a connection going out of his computer that was causing the bandwidth hog - besides seeing punkbuster, which we uninstalled, nothing.

If he can record fine, and he can play games fine, then it must be his internet connection? We tried resetting his router, nothing. He's coming over today with his computer and we're going to test it on my internet connection.

If any of you has any advice, we would greatly appreciate it!
 
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