Sound Card issues

The sound card works fine in everything but mic pickups. Everytime it records anything, it turns it into either a demon or a chipmunk type of voice if it works at all. Sometimes I reboot it and it works fine for a while then goes back to the weird fucked up voices.

Solutions I've tried: Switching the card to different PCI slots. reinstalled drivers, Installed newer drivers, installed older drivers. Messing around with all the settings in the program the drivers come with that have anything to do with mic's.

Nothing worked, thats why I'm here. Is the card defective?

I'm using XP Pro, the sound card is called BlueGears b-Enspirer.

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I'm using Bluegears b.inspirer. The recording app is usually the WinXP recording application. It's not the app because I monitor the sound through the program it gives me, called c-media Oxygen HD. This program also has the "Demon" and "Chipmunk" voices you can use as a "magic" voice, but I have that turned off. So it might be the program. Are there any other programs I could use other than that?