did I kill my tascam us-122?

[MTY_MEX]

i was using my toy without any problem for months, recording vocals in a laptop by plugging an M-1 condenser mic onto the right input of the US122... then one day it started to introduce a lot of noise and i barely could recognize my voice in the headphones but only when setting the input volume almost to the max.. i "fix" it plugging the mic onto the left side and i could continue recording.. then one day -for other reasons- i reloaded the operating system in my laptop and since then none of the mic inputs work well.. the right one keep introducing big clicks and noise and the left one doesn't produce anything... i've heard that if you plug or unplug the mic without turning off the 48v switch in the us122 (which i have done several times) these are the things thay may happen...

any idea?

 

[TelePaul]

hey man sorry i cant help so much but im having the same problem with audio pops...not sure why at all, ive tried pretty much everything, im thinking now its a hardware problem...can anybody else confirm or disconfirm the phantom power issue? ie should it be off before you unplug?