Is this a Motherboard Issue?

[obubdeno]

Hey guys, I recently put together my custom system and the audio is fine, but im having problems with the Mic volume. No body can hear me.

I have an ASrock 970 Extreme 3 Mobo, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.

I have the volume on 100, boost on 30, and have been messing with all the settings.
The green bar in sound options only goes up 1-2 bars when I SCREAM into it. This is very frustrating, and I have noticed a frequent amount of threads pertaining to this issue, please let me know what I should do.

P.S Its Realtek Audio and I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers!

I have also ran the install for the drivers in Vista Compatibility mode, Unplugged the front Audio, messed with all the settings, and have done a windows repair install.

 

[C12Friedman]

And you have checked the mic on a known working computer (or other compatible device) and it worked fine?

 

[obubdeno]

Yes, works perfectly fine on my mac! Quick question...

Now you know for a phone headset (like ipod ones) where they have buds and a microphone but only 1 jack? Does that not work with windows? Cause i plug that into the pink microphone port and it doesnt work

 

[C12Friedman]

No, that style connection doesn't work on PC's, you need a separate headphone jack (green) and microphone jack (pink). There are splitters which will allow you to use that style headset though, like this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882203159
at least I think it would work

 

[obubdeno]

I believe I was able to get it to work... using a green and pink PC headset... weird though. Maybe it was the repair install, but things seem to be moving more sluggish now. I bought a retail copy of Prof. Windows 7 for $65 lol. so ill be replacing home edition with it.