Hi guys,
Hoping someone can advise me here. Google is failing!
I bought my son a HyperX Stinger headset for Christmas. I have a Cloud II myself, which connects via USB, but the Stinger has separate headphone and microphone plugs.
If the headset is connected to the motherboard jacks, it works fine. (I did have to disable the old Audigy 2 on that computer and use the on-board sound as there was an interference problem).
The problem is that I can't connect it anywhere else. There are headphone & mic jacks on the front of the case but they don't work (they never have - can't remember why). Fine, I thought, I'll buy a dongle that lets you connect both via USB. I have now tried two different dongles and both give the same result - the headphones work but the microphone doesn't. I have confirmed this on two different PCs.
When connected via USB, Windows recognises there is a microphone connected, but it doesn't pick up any sound. If I plug the microphone in to the same PC directly, it works fine. Sound comes through the headphones as normal.
Finding this really frustrating as there appears to be no logical reason for it not to work. All I want is to be able to connect and disconnect the headset at the front of the PC, so if someone else wants to use the PC, they don't have to mess around behind the PC unplugging it and plugging the speakers back in.
Anyone have any bright ideas? If not, my next plan is to get an extension lead so I can plug the microphone lead into the MB and the headphone lead into the USB dongle. This will probably work, but I can't see any reason the dongle doesn't work itself!
Hoping someone can advise me here. Google is failing!
I bought my son a HyperX Stinger headset for Christmas. I have a Cloud II myself, which connects via USB, but the Stinger has separate headphone and microphone plugs.
If the headset is connected to the motherboard jacks, it works fine. (I did have to disable the old Audigy 2 on that computer and use the on-board sound as there was an interference problem).
The problem is that I can't connect it anywhere else. There are headphone & mic jacks on the front of the case but they don't work (they never have - can't remember why). Fine, I thought, I'll buy a dongle that lets you connect both via USB. I have now tried two different dongles and both give the same result - the headphones work but the microphone doesn't. I have confirmed this on two different PCs.
When connected via USB, Windows recognises there is a microphone connected, but it doesn't pick up any sound. If I plug the microphone in to the same PC directly, it works fine. Sound comes through the headphones as normal.
Finding this really frustrating as there appears to be no logical reason for it not to work. All I want is to be able to connect and disconnect the headset at the front of the PC, so if someone else wants to use the PC, they don't have to mess around behind the PC unplugging it and plugging the speakers back in.
Anyone have any bright ideas? If not, my next plan is to get an extension lead so I can plug the microphone lead into the MB and the headphone lead into the USB dongle. This will probably work, but I can't see any reason the dongle doesn't work itself!
