Broke front i/o panel - mic won't work on headphones - hardware or software?

Arcurus

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Feb 11, 2015
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Accidentally pushed headphone jack while it was plugged in now the headphone input ring is kind of loose and you have to angle it just right for it to work - even then it only plays in one ear. Luckily, I can plug my headphones into the mic jack and it works just fine. My problem now, is that my headphones have an in-line mic. This in-line mic works perfectly on my phone, and my friends laptop, but not on my computer. Regardless of whether I put it into the (partially broken) headphone jack, or the (perfectly fine) audio jack, I can only listen, and can't talk.

I have this stupid Realtek HD audio manager that doesn't let me put it in as a headset, or choose both headphone/audio, so I am unsure whether I need to buy a new front I/O panel to fix it or just do some software tweaks.

Thanks for reading.