Having trouble recording from an analogue 4 track to computer

[ShotFullOfDiamonds]

I've got guitars and a drum machine and I've recorded songs onto my new 4 track (A Fostex X-24) and I wanted to record them straight onto my computer, as a .wav file, however if I use the 'Line 1' input, neither Soundforge XP or Window 95's Sound Recorder will pick up for some reason, but if I put it into the 'microphone' input it will record, however, when it records it is amplified by the computer (according to my brother) but I can't find how I could turn this inner amplifiction off so that the recording sounds right... I've tried recording stuff through the microphone but it records a really choppy horrible bad quality .wav and there's usually background noise generated just from the microphone input or something, it sounds horrible. So I was wondering how I can;

1 - Set the line one so that Sound Recorder and Soundforge XP can pick it up?

OR

2 - How I can turn off the inner amplification on the microphone input so that I can use it to record a good sounding copy?

 

[Eddie N]

go into your multimedia settings in control panel and click the recording button..make sure that the line input isnt muted.. also click on the playback button and do the same..

- eddie -