So a month or so ago I posted a similar issue on here and got help correcting, but here I am again, same problem...different cause. I was forced to get new headphones as the mic on my previous ones decided to die within 8 months. On my new headphones (brand new, literally came yesterday), the left ear was fading out slightly, especially when bumping the cord, so I Googled the issue to see if what it was something with my PC or if it was just bad hardware I received, and I found updating drivers could potentially help fix it. So I reinstalled Realtek, and after Realtek uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, my front audio and mic jacks have once more stopped working and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix this. I cannot roll back my Windows 10 update to see that would also resolve it again, as the option is not there in my settings. My Realtek HD Audio Manager in the hidden icons tray also disappeared after the driver re-installation, but got that back by going to my Motherboard's brand driver site and downloading the Realtek driver from there, however, the front jacks are still not working. I'm not sure what I can do at this point and it's very frustrating. I know the jacks didn't just up and die, as the issue was present before and was fixed, and this problem only started after reinstalling the drivers. I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix the front jack problems.
Edit: Also an aside, my back audio jack works, however the back mic jack does not. My PC will pick up that a mic is plugged in, but doesn't actually pick up anything from my mic.
Update: After completely uninstalling Realtek and reinstalling the drivers from my motherboard's site, I got the jacks themselves working again. I had to go into the Realtek Audio Device Manager and check the ""AC97 Front Panel". So they're registering things being plugged in again now. However, my mic is now not getting picked up from either the back jack nor the front jack ports for the mic. Any ideas how to fix this?
My hardware:
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: AMD FX-4300 Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM: 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 574MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M5A97 LE R2.0 (Socket 942)
Graphics Card: NS-24E340A13 (1768x992@30Hz) 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Gigabyte)
Storage: 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10 EZEX-00RKKA0 SATA Disk Device (SATA)
Optical Drivers: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB SATA CdRom Device
Audio: Realtek High Definition Audio
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Edit: Also an aside, my back audio jack works, however the back mic jack does not. My PC will pick up that a mic is plugged in, but doesn't actually pick up anything from my mic.
Update: After completely uninstalling Realtek and reinstalling the drivers from my motherboard's site, I got the jacks themselves working again. I had to go into the Realtek Audio Device Manager and check the ""AC97 Front Panel". So they're registering things being plugged in again now. However, my mic is now not getting picked up from either the back jack nor the front jack ports for the mic. Any ideas how to fix this?
My hardware:
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: AMD FX-4300 Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM: 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 574MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M5A97 LE R2.0 (Socket 942)
Graphics Card: NS-24E340A13 (1768x992@30Hz) 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Gigabyte)
Storage: 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10 EZEX-00RKKA0 SATA Disk Device (SATA)
Optical Drivers: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB SATA CdRom Device
Audio: Realtek High Definition Audio
Any help is greatly appreciated.