disable the internal microphone

Lenovo x 201 2985 F4U

is it possible to disable the internal (built-in, integrated, whatever it's called) microphone on this unit? I have not been able to find a way without disabling the whole card.

You can probably disable it in the bios, under Security, access port i/o. or in windows via Control Panel, sound, recording, select microphone and disable.

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