Windows 10 not detecting microphone help!

Gregvivi0401 · 20 Feb 2023 at 13:45

I have tried all possible options from YouTube to internet and cant solve the problem. Speakers work fine and when you connect headphones to motherboard or front jack microphone is not working and you cant see microphone in device manager. Please help if you hade same problem before on fresh windows installation i think must be driver's fault but i could be wrong.

Gregvivi0401 · 20 Feb 2023 at 15:57

Orcvader said:
List your system specs. What headphones is it? How is it connecting to the PC? If via the 3.5mm audio jack bare in mind a lot of these ports are for sound out only, not the ones where it's both a headphone and microphone port in one.

Intel I7 2600K CPU LGA 1155
Asus P8Z68 V-PRO LGA 1155 Motherboard

Gregvivi0401 · 20 Feb 2023 at 16:07

Orcvader said:
You haven't mentioned what headphones you're using and how you're plugging it into the PC. The headphone ports on that board however is just only for sound out, no sound in.

Hi m8 they're just normal wired headphones I have tried the front 3.5 jack, motherboard jack and the speakers jack too.
We tested out the headphones on another pc and everything was fine with them

Gregvivi0401 · 20 Feb 2023 at 16:32

Orcvader said:
Then as I mentioned, it's because those ports for that motherboard and most likely the front panel do not have sound out and microphone wired up together, they're purely for sound out. Microphones on headsets will not work. The other PC you tested it on most likely have the port wired up for both already (more common on laptops and phones).

You need something like this to join a single headphone jack and a microphone jack into a port that will work with your headphones: https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Headphone-Microphone-Headphones-connector/dp/B073ZDDTH2

Thank you for the advice.
Its very strange on second pc which is 3770k and Gigabyte z68ap-d3 all works fine, is this something to do with the hardware?

Gregvivi0401 · 20 Feb 2023 at 16:55

Orcvader said:
Not just the motherboard, for the front ports it also depends on the case as well. If the case offers only a single port for audio, then it's a decent chance it has wired both headphone and microphone together. If it's separate then highly likely it isn't.

The Z68 board's back audio ports are all separate, so you must be using a case that wires the front one into a combined port.

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX case i am using and other one i am not sure. I was thinking more drivers problem but you maybe right.

Gregvivi0401 · 23 Feb 2023 at 16:57

Orcvader said:
Then as I mentioned, it's because those ports for that motherboard and most likely the front panel do not have sound out and microphone wired up together, they're purely for sound out. Microphones on headsets will not work. The other PC you tested it on most likely have the port wired up for both already (more common on laptops and phones).

You need something like this to join a single headphone jack and a microphone jack into a port that will work with your headphones: https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Headphone-Microphone-Headphones-connector/dp/B073ZDDTH2

I got splitter from amazon and still doesn't work.

t31os said:
Have you installed the audio drivers from the manufacturers website or just left it to Windows to sort out? (Windows might have only got the basic driver and not the audio utility for managing the audio ports). It might not need the audio utility necessarily, it may just mute the input by default as the audio utility for that board has jack detection (which would usually pop up a port configuration utility onscreen when something is plugged into an audio port).

I have tried all manufactory drivers and windows one with no luck at all.