wondering a few things about the side ports on my new razer blackwidow ultimate 2014

ro0415

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So I just got my New razer blackwidow ultimate 2014. It's the first really good keyboard i've owned and i'm really liking it. However one of the reasons i bought this keyboard is because of the side ports (a usb port, heaphone port and mic port).

First the audio ports.
I have a razer blackshark expert gaming 2.0 headset. I wanted to be able to plug this headset in to the audio ports on the keyboard instead of the pc, but when i tried i encountered an annoying porblem. Because I had to plug the headphone and mic cables from the keyboard into the computer, for the side ports to work, the computer thinks that i'm allways using the headphones, even though the headset is not plugged in to the keyboard. So now, to switch between headset and speaker I have to unplugg the headphone cable from the keyboard. Is there any way to fix this??? I either want it so that I can unplugg the headphones from the keyboard and then it switches to speakers, or I want to have it so that i can press a key combo on the keyboard which will make it switch between headphones and speakers (even though i dont know if this is possible).

so for the usb port. I have a corsair m95 mouse. this is a weired mouse so i wanted to be able to plug it in to my keyboard instead of the computer, but when i conected the mouse to the keyboard it said (directly translated): Does not recognize usb-Device. The last Device that was Connected to this computer had an error and Windows does not recognize it.
This is not as big of a problem as the headphone port, but it's still annoying. The mouse Works fine on any other usb port on the pc. I had a few other usb Devices lying arround (including another mouse which was Wireless) and all the other Devices worked just fine. Any ieda what the problem is???

so thats it. Thank you to anyone Reading this and if there's anything you need to know feel free to ask!!!! :)

ps: on the razer blackshark, do I need to use the cable that splits Audio and mic into two different cables for the mic to work, or can I just plug the single green cable thats attatched to the headphone into the the headphone port on the pc for the mic to work?????
 
Solution
If the computer detects the port as under use if you plug in the audio jack from the KB regardless of a headset being attached than there is no way to change it.

byza

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To swap between the headphones and speakers, you just need to change the output port/device in the software. You can do this using the built in sound control options or with software such as the Razer Surround software or i'm pretty sure you can do it with Realtek software too. I'm sure you could make some sort of macro/shortcut to do it but I don't know how exactly.

With the BlackShark, you will need to use the cable that splits the audio and mic if you want to use the mic. If you just want sound you don't need it.
 

ro0415

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I know that i can change between headphones and speakr in the realtek software, but i don't want to have to open the software every time i want to change. I have seen that some People say that you can download different programs that will allowe you to make hotkeys to change between them, but i don't want to download a program for it to work (unless it's my only option). The thing I would like the most is just to be able to plug in and remove the headset cable from the keybord for it to work.
 

ro0415

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well shit