Windows 10: My microphone isnt detected even with an audio splitter

Ever since I have had my desktop computer, I realized that I couldn't talk through it. The audio worked, but my microphone was never detected unless I was using Bluetooth. I realized that there were 2 holes, one for audio and one for mic. I bought an audio splitter to link these together so that I could have both, but I plugged it in today and still only received audio.


I tried using the troubleshoot feature but it didn't help, and couldn't detect my desired issue. When I try to test my mic, nothing comes out. I also realize that if I am in a calling platform like Discord, my internal sound actually becomes my microphone. I have come to find that people I call are able to hear my own audio, rather than my own voice. I have had this desktop for some time now, and have spent some years trying to configure it, so I do wish it would work. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

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Headset microphone (with audio splitter) not working

My Acer Predator (Helios 300) laptop has a singular audio port, which I use with my headset that has a separate microphone and headphone cable. I have used an audio splitter to get around this issue for a while now, and it has worked perfectly fine. Normally
when I would plug the splitter in, a prompt would appear asking what type of device was just plugged in, options were headphones, speakers, microphone, headset, and one or two other options that I don't remember because I never used them. I would select "headset"
and it would work just fine. Recently, something changed. This prompt no longer appears, and my computer no longer acknowledges the microphone on my headset, instead using the default internal microphone. The headphones still play audio like normal, but I
have found no way to get the microphone working.

If I just plug the microphone chord into the audio jack, it still does not work, and the computer refuses to play audio.

So far I have tried:

• Uninstalling and re-installing the audio drivers (multiple times)
• Updating windows
• Running the audio troubleshooters (Both for playing audio and recording)
• Checking for updates to Dolby
• Scanning for hardware changes in device manager
• Disabling the default microphone

None of these have done anything.

I'm really at a loss here. I consider myself pretty computer savvy but nothing I've tried has gotten me anywhere.

 

Headset microphone audio not detected

I recently bought new headphones and received my audio splitter adapter (1 jack > 2 jacks) but my computer still doesn't detect anything from my microphone. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling and updating my drivers, but it doesn't work. The microphone
shows up in the devices tab and it's the right one (I think?) but it detects no audio. Mic is not muted either. Any help?

 

USB microphone isn't detected

Do you mean this?





If so, as you see, yes. At lest I think so...