Vista - Microphone wont work

Hey everyone, new to the site, and I see a lot of great help!

I'm pretty good with computers, but this 1 problem is leaving me puzzled.

I have a home built gaming PC, Gigabyte P35C-DS3R (rev 1.x) mobo.

My problem is the following:

Recently reformatted due to some issues I was having that seemed unsolveable, everything was fixed but a new problem occured. My Razer Carcharias, and other microphones in my house, don't seem to be registering in my audiojacks.

This wasn't an issue before my reformat, but now suddenly it says in Sound options "Not plugged in"

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3226/notplugged.gif

It is plugged in, I can assure you that. I've updated and reinstalled all my drivers. My headphones are working, but the microphone is not on any VOIP program, which is a huge issue for me.

I have Vista x64 home edition, and I'm not sure if this is part of a motherboard problem, or Vista interfeering with it, because as I said before it just happened after my reformat.


I hope you all can give me some help

Thanks!
Bropey

Hi bropey,

Do you get the same 'Not plugged in' problem even if you set your microphone as the Default recording device? I see in the image that you have the 'Realtek Digital Input' device set as the default instead.


-=W=-

Yes I would, I figured out my MIC IN jack was worn out, so I got a soundcard and now it works beautifully