Summary:
To start, the notebook is an Acer Aspire 5560. It's not mine, but I helped a friend reformat his harddrive and I've noticed that many of its drivers did not begin to automatically detect/install. I've managed to manually find many of the drivers, with most of them being accessible off of Acer's support site.
With most things running fine, the last big problem that remains is an interesting problem with the laptop's built-in microphone, and the headphones my friend uses with it.
When the headphones are plugged in, the microphone ceases to work. Looking at the controlpanel>sound, the microphone looks almost inactive because the bars are not rising as he raises his voice.
I assumed that the problem could have some link with his Realtek HD Audio, as that's what his mic showed up as. I googled the problem, and came up with an almost exact problem on the microsoft support site (Difference being that this user has a plugged-in microphone)
My friend and I went through every potential solution provided, and none of them worked. We tried reinstalling Realtek, Tinkered with the "configure sound" settings in the controlpanel>sound options, tried to see what'd happen disabling Realtek on cmd>msconfig>startup, and of course nothing happened. In addition I looked at various sites which offered drivers for this laptop, and aside from Acer's own support-downloads section, which was lacking any kind of microphone or audio driver, there was nothing save for one of those bullshit sites where every single driver listed down for download sends you to a link to download some "Driver download manager" which asks for a pretty penny.
We attempted flat out uninstalling the Realtek audio drivers, and the result was a juxtaposition where the microphone worked with the headphones in and out, but the headphones themselves did not work (The speakers worked).
A big struggle with all of this is that the microphone does not have a name. It's just "Built-in microphone". I checked the specs of the laptop on any site, even looking at the service manual PDF, where most components are detailed except for the mic which remains as "Built-in Microphone".
*Built-in Microphone not working with headphones plugged in after a reformat/re-windows.
*Microphone is labeled as "Realtek HD Audio" with drivers installed.
*Multiple attempts to download/install/reinstall drivers failed.
*With drivers uninstalled (Realtek) microphone works with headphones in, but headphones have no audio.
*Can't find any individual driver specifically for built-in microphone. Checked device manager, sound options, etc. Only "Realtek HD" in sound options, nothing in Sound, video and game controllers inside Device Manager.
To start, the notebook is an Acer Aspire 5560. It's not mine, but I helped a friend reformat his harddrive and I've noticed that many of its drivers did not begin to automatically detect/install. I've managed to manually find many of the drivers, with most of them being accessible off of Acer's support site.
With most things running fine, the last big problem that remains is an interesting problem with the laptop's built-in microphone, and the headphones my friend uses with it.
When the headphones are plugged in, the microphone ceases to work. Looking at the controlpanel>sound, the microphone looks almost inactive because the bars are not rising as he raises his voice.
I assumed that the problem could have some link with his Realtek HD Audio, as that's what his mic showed up as. I googled the problem, and came up with an almost exact problem on the microsoft support site (Difference being that this user has a plugged-in microphone)
My friend and I went through every potential solution provided, and none of them worked. We tried reinstalling Realtek, Tinkered with the "configure sound" settings in the controlpanel>sound options, tried to see what'd happen disabling Realtek on cmd>msconfig>startup, and of course nothing happened. In addition I looked at various sites which offered drivers for this laptop, and aside from Acer's own support-downloads section, which was lacking any kind of microphone or audio driver, there was nothing save for one of those bullshit sites where every single driver listed down for download sends you to a link to download some "Driver download manager" which asks for a pretty penny.
We attempted flat out uninstalling the Realtek audio drivers, and the result was a juxtaposition where the microphone worked with the headphones in and out, but the headphones themselves did not work (The speakers worked).
A big struggle with all of this is that the microphone does not have a name. It's just "Built-in microphone". I checked the specs of the laptop on any site, even looking at the service manual PDF, where most components are detailed except for the mic which remains as "Built-in Microphone".
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