Windows 10: Why does my microphone port not get picked up on my PC?

I have been trying to connect a microphone to my computer, however it does only recognises the first picture’s microphone port secondary?. This doesn’t act as a microphone at all when I plug the green wire into it, but that’s a problem for another day.The point is, the second picture’s port comes along with all the other basic USB ports, so I gather that this is the main microphone port. Yet, my computer doesn’t react at all when I plug the microphone’s jack into this one.I can’t perform any troubleshooting tasks because no matter what I do, this port isn’t recognised as any input device on

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Microphone issues

Hi Michael,

Here are the possible reasons why you're getting an error "The microphone did not pick anything up" when using it:

• Incorrect settings (microphone is not set as default device)
  
• Corrupted or outdated driver
  
• Faulty device
  

For us to isolate the issue, we'd like to know the following:

• Were there any changes made to your computer prior to this issue(e.g. Windows updates)?
  
• Have you tried connecting other microphone to your computer?
  
• Have you tried connecting the microphone to the other computer?
  

In the meantime, we suggest running the Recording Audio Troubleshooter to find and repair problems with recording sound. We also suggest checking if your microphone is set as your default recording device. For troubleshooting steps, please see
Geethu B's on this
link.

We're looking forward to your reply.

 

Microphone not working windows 10. Only picks up pc sounds

We apologize for the late response. We appreciate the update. You have mentioned that you are using the audio port on the front panel of your computer. Your computer should also have an audio port on the back panel. If your computer has an audio port on
the back, we suggest that you try using that port. In addition, we recommend that you run the Recording Audio troubleshooter. This tool finds and fixes problems with recording sound. Here are the steps:

1. Click Start and type Troubleshoot in the search box and click on Troubleshoot from the results.

2. Select Recording Audio and click on Run the troubleshooter button.

If the issue persist, we suggest that you create a new local user account on your computer and check if you will be able to use your microphone while on the new account. This lets us verify if this issue is cause by a corrupted user profile. Here's

how.

Furthermore, you might want to check Microphone in Sound Settings. This is to make sure that the microphone is the default device.

1. Use the key Win + X (or right click the Start menu).

2. Select Control Panel.

3. Click Sound and open the dialog window.

4. Choose the Recording tab and find the Microphone on the recording devices list. (If you can't find it, right click on the list and select
Show Disable Devices.

5. Then right click the Microphone and select Enable.

6. Select the Microphone.

7. Lastly, click the button Set Default below the list.





We would appreciate an update about how it went.

 

PC not picking up USB microphone

I purchased a PC a few weeks ago, and two days ago I plugged in my USB microphone for the first time, a Rode USB mic, only to find the PC isn't reacting to it being plugged in at all.

• This is not an issue with the microphone, I booted up my old PC yesterday, plugged in the mic, and it was automatically registered as an audio input device, both PCs run on Windows 10
  
• I checked the settings to see if it simply hadn't switched over to it, this is not the case, according to the drop down in my settings there are ''No Input Devices''
  
• This is not an issue with the USB ports, I have plugged multiple accessories including my mouse, keyboard, and a USB gaming controller into all avaliable ports, all work.
  

This is an issue I'm not understanding, I did try going into device management and reinstalling the USB drivers, this worked once, I did it and it then registered the microphone, and it worked as expected, but then I rebooted the system and the issue happened again. But this time reinstalling the drivers did nothing, I have done this again 5 or 6 times now to no avail. Since Microsoft apparently can't afford to employ people to know their system and help people who buy their products because what does customer support matter, I can only ask all of you for help.