Boosting Microphone Volume

[Natural]

I had some issues with my on-board sound not cooperating with TS, so I went out and got a PCI sound card (Yamaha 724). The problem I'm having now is, Microphone boost no longer shows up as an option under options>recording>advanced. In fact, there are no advanced options at all under recording anymore.

Is there a program that can boost mic volume, or a tweak to re-enable the windows mic boost option? I scoured google, but could find neither. This was the only driver I could find that would work properly, so I don't think I can get out of this by switching drivers (at least not to another yamaha 724 driver)

[m&m's]

go to start / run / type in sndvol32.exe go to the options tab / propertys recording then click ok the mic slider box should apper slide the slider to max / ok to save

[Natural]

Thanks for the reply, but I've tried all of that and it's still quiet. I'm using a mic, not head-set, so I need the extra boost. Unfortunately, Microphone Boost is N/A due to the ghetto driver I have to use.