Recent content by Strider90

I've been trying for days now to make my microphone work and checked dozens of websites and videos for advice. I'm running out of ideas. What I did so far: Turned on all options in the settings for the microphone. Tried different audio ports of my motherboard. Updated my Realtek Audio drivers...

Motherboard is an MSI X570 gaming pro and GPU is an RTX2070. It wasn't pre-build. I ordered the parts and had someone build it for me.

That's something I already tried. I followed different tutorials on youtube but nothing solved it.

Here are three photos from different angles. View: https://i.imgur.com/yio08bC.jpg One side: View: https://i.imgur.com/Rg0IIEz.jpg And the other here: View: https://i.imgur.com/qqx3keu.jpg

I already checked that. A front panel replacement costs 28 bucks

so this is why my rear audio port doesn't work?

No chance. There is nothing there.

I'm currently trying what you suggested and I see that the rear port is covered by this small metal case. Is this something I can just pull out?

I would definitely cause damage if I tried that.

Alright I will try that.

I already checked underneath it. Impossible to push it out.

First off, forgive me if that's not the best category for this thread. Now I already tried to pull it out using glue, thrice. It didn't work and possibly made it worse. So I was wondering if it's possible to replace this entire component which I don't even know what to call. Any tips?

It all started about three weeks ago when I got a blue screen. It was the only one I got but since then the PC is freezing at least three times a day no matter what I do. I gave it to a "professional" who cost me $150 and made a clean install of Windows in a brand new SSD and returned the PC to...