Windows 10: Plug in microphone won't work with laptop and don't know how to fix. Please help!

Hi.


I have a condenser microphone (VIM VIP?????) and I wanted to do some recording with it as it is of a much nicer quality than the microphone on my laptop, but it doesn't work and sound stops playing through the speakers (no idea why it is not a headset and there is only 1 place I can plug it into my laptop which I think is supposed to be for headphones and microphones). I have tried looking up how to fix it on the internet but this hasn't helped as the advice online doesn't seem to cover what you do when your device doesn't show up at all on the recording devices window (bit where you can do stuff with device settings). I think the Microphone is a "plug and play" device so there shouldn't be an issue with device drivers right? (although I have previously used it on a different computer).The microphone has the standard sort of plug that you see on earbuds, I think. (3.5mm?????) The laptop I am using is a "Lenovo ideapad 330S" and it has the windows 10 OS.


Help would be appreciated.


Thanks

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