Mic "not plugged in"?

[lukeeeh]

I'm having issues with my Headset. While the headphones work perfectly the Mic doesn't work at all. In device manager it says that the Mic is "not plugged in", however it very clearly is. How can I fix this issue?

 

[doolittle]

Are you plugged into the rear audio jacks on the motherboard, or the front or top panel of the case? If the latter, try the mobo jacks (green for the headset, pink for the mic), if that works your cable header may be not getting a good connection to the motherboard. If that does not do it, let us know what model headset and what model motherboard you have...

 

[lukeeeh]

Yeah, it already is plugged into the rear jacks. What confuses me is how the headphone part works fine, it's just the Mic that causes problems. Headset is a Nubwo N7, H110mr motherboard

 

[doolittle]

Could be it just needs a level / gain adjustment, double check the realtek manager and make sure it detects the device plugged into the jack (otherwise they are dimmed out), and when you plug / unplug it should pop up a box to ask what was plugged in (if autodetection is enabled). If it does not you will have to test it do double check if it is working. If it shows up, you will see the mic icon and there should be some options (mine has "noise supression" for background cancellation and "acoustic echo cancellation" to prevent speaker feedback).

To adjust the gain / boost, right-click the windows speaker icon and select "recording devices". In the "recording" tab, select the "Microphone" and hit "properties". There should be a "levels" tab, and there should be 2 boxes - "Microphone" recording level and "Microphone Boost" to adjust the gain. Try the recording level 100% first, then test with either sound recorder (win7) or audio recorder (win10, may have to give permissions for that one) or another app like Audacity. Adjust the level and boost to you liking, if it's working you should get some recording audio through the mic.