Her microphone produces white noise, after a while?

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Published on 2012-06-23T01:37:03Z Indexed on 2012/06/23 3:18 UTC
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When my friend Skypes with me or gets on FB Video with me, her sound works fine... at first. After a bit, it starts sounding like loud static. It happens more frequently as we restart video chats, until it happens as soon as we open video chats. We usually restart her PC to fix the issue. Is there a process we could kill, maybe?

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