Having a bad Microphone Issue

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So today I went out and bought a cheap $20 Turtle Beach headset as I don't need anything too ridiculous to play some games with my buddies during my free time from studying/school... Well I have my custom-build desktop, and I plug in the microphone to my microphone jack on the front (this is a 3.5 mm headphone jack-style microphone/headset combo) and absolutely nothing! I quickly jump on MSI's website, put in my exact motherboard and rush through to drivers and see a very recent update! Download and install successfully and.... NOTHING! I have now went in to audio devices, tried setting the mic as default for recording, tried changing things around, nothing! Unplug mic, re-plug it in allowing the MSI Realtek HD audio manger to open, selecting mic in (which successfully recognized the input as a microphone) and start playing around... I upped the recording volume all the way... Nothing! So I play with the dB... Increase it all the way to 30! I hear something... It's excruciatingly faint, and very very muffled as well.... but it is there.... Any ideas, anybody? Thanks much.
P.S. I used the mic on another device and it worked perfectly fine, so it is definitely not a mic issue.
 
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And there is the problem. You will have to use a splitter. The mic jack hasn't got the right contacts to work the way you are using it. A typical mic plug would be T/S, maybe T/R/S if it's stereo. And the plug on your headphones is T/R/R/S. Can't do it without a splitter.
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T=tip
R=ring
S=sleeve
The mic is on the second ring of the headphone plug. The mic jack has no second ring contact, which is why it won't work. If you speak into the headphones themselves when you plug them in the mic jack, I think you will find they are acting like a microphone.
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Are you sure the jack on the front of your tower is a mic/headphone combo jack? And that the header from the jack is correctly connected to the MB? It sounds like your rig is using one of the headphones drivers for your ear instead of the microphone for its input. That could happen if it was not a combo jack, just a headphone only jack.
 
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Sorry, clearly I did not word clearly enough. My tower jack is NOT a microphone/headphone combo. There are two separate 3.5 mm jacks on the front of my tower. My headset itself is a microphone/headphone combo, I don't have a splitter, but that is ok because I plan on only using the microphone function until I do buy a splitter... anyways...the header from the jack is DEFINITELY connected to the MOBO correctly.

 
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And there is the problem. You will have to use a splitter. The mic jack hasn't got the right contacts to work the way you are using it. A typical mic plug would be T/S, maybe T/R/S if it's stereo. And the plug on your headphones is T/R/R/S. Can't do it without a splitter.
Edit:
T=tip
R=ring
S=sleeve
The mic is on the second ring of the headphone plug. The mic jack has no second ring contact, which is why it won't work. If you speak into the headphones themselves when you plug them in the mic jack, I think you will find they are acting like a microphone.
 
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Dude thank you so much, I was worried either one of the pins on the HD audio connector on my MOBO was either broke or malfunctioning, or the mic jack was broke of malfunctioning...
 
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