The W530 microphone low volume

In April or may of 2015, somewhere in the past two months, the volume of the microphone got low. People on Skype calls say they cannot hear me, and the microphone sounds very low or low. Same thing with Lynks Conference calls. I have to shout to get all the green bars in the audio settings in Skype.

I've seen this kind of problem reported several years ago on other models in the forums, but what is new from the date of this post.

I bought a new headset, which has not changed him.

All Skype and Windows 8.1 microphone volume levels and levels of reinforcement are pegged at the maximum.

I tried to download the latest driver realtek audio. It did not help.

If someone has had this experience, it seems like a change of software, update driver or an update of Lenovo. Is there a way to return to a previous driver or the update of Lenovo when it worked?

The microphone worked if I remember in February and March. I can't put my finger on what has changed, just when.

It seems that the solution is to uninstall the Realtek Audio driver by using the Control Panel, then reboot and let Windows 8.1 to find its own audio drivers for the external microphone.

I'm a little upset at the Realtek to put me through this.

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