Hey guys,
So I put together a new PC running Windows 10 Pro around 3 months ago and everything was working perfect till 2 days ago when my mic suddenly stopped working. I use a Steelseries Siberia V2 headset and the headphones work fine, but the mic is not picking up any noise at all. I tried plugging in both the back and front ports and my realtek always detects that a mic has been plugged in, but it simply won't work. I thought maybe my mic got busted so I also tried using an A4 Tech headset that I had lying around in the office but it has the same issue, the mic won't work. I looked around online for possible solutions and tried the following with no luck:
- Ensured the mic was set as the default device and that its volume settings were maxed out.
- Tried disabling all sound effects (noise suppression, acoustic echo cancellation etc).
- Uninstalled all audio drivers and reinstalled the latest realtek drivers on my motherboard's webpage: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5530#dl
- Uninstalled all audio drivers and reinstalled the latest realtek drivers on realtek's own webpage:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
- Uninstalled all audio drivers and let Windows auto-install drivers.
- I even uninstalled all realtek drivers and tried using the standard "high definition audio device drivers."
Basically tried everything in this link: http://win10faq.com/fix-microphone-settings/
The conclusion was the same with everything I tried, the sound worked fine in both my speakers and headphones, but the mics simply didn't work. What's strange is that it just stopped working out of nowhere. I didn't install any new software or hardware or make any changes prior to the issue. Just turned the PC on one day and boom, mics not working.
I am completely stumped now and have no idea what to try next. Here are screenshots of what my mic settings looked like with the realtek drivers and without: http://imgur.com/a/BTuWG
Really hope someone can help me figure out what went wrong.
Thanks in advance!
So I put together a new PC running Windows 10 Pro around 3 months ago and everything was working perfect till 2 days ago when my mic suddenly stopped working. I use a Steelseries Siberia V2 headset and the headphones work fine, but the mic is not picking up any noise at all. I tried plugging in both the back and front ports and my realtek always detects that a mic has been plugged in, but it simply won't work. I thought maybe my mic got busted so I also tried using an A4 Tech headset that I had lying around in the office but it has the same issue, the mic won't work. I looked around online for possible solutions and tried the following with no luck:
- Ensured the mic was set as the default device and that its volume settings were maxed out.
- Tried disabling all sound effects (noise suppression, acoustic echo cancellation etc).
- Uninstalled all audio drivers and reinstalled the latest realtek drivers on my motherboard's webpage: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5530#dl
- Uninstalled all audio drivers and reinstalled the latest realtek drivers on realtek's own webpage:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
- Uninstalled all audio drivers and let Windows auto-install drivers.
- I even uninstalled all realtek drivers and tried using the standard "high definition audio device drivers."
Basically tried everything in this link: http://win10faq.com/fix-microphone-settings/
The conclusion was the same with everything I tried, the sound worked fine in both my speakers and headphones, but the mics simply didn't work. What's strange is that it just stopped working out of nowhere. I didn't install any new software or hardware or make any changes prior to the issue. Just turned the PC on one day and boom, mics not working.
I am completely stumped now and have no idea what to try next. Here are screenshots of what my mic settings looked like with the realtek drivers and without: http://imgur.com/a/BTuWG
Really hope someone can help me figure out what went wrong.
Thanks in advance!
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