Why won't a microphone work?

[Gobbling_Monkey]

Hello. I have a HP ENVY 17t-j100 Quad edition with Windows 10. It has a combo headphone microphone jack. I tried to plug in a microphone into the headphone microphone combo jack. It does not work. No recording device shows up in the Sound manager or device manager. A few times, it recognized a headphone being plugged in. The microphone plug only has 2 stripes. Does it need to have 3? Is that the problem? Does the headphone jack support a mic with only 2 stripes? I plugged in my earbuds that have a mic and 3 stripes on the plug. It worked fine. The microphone doesn't work on my phone either. Is the other mic just defective, or do I need one with 3 stripes? Thank you.

 

[CountMike]

You need an adapter from male 4 ring (Combo) jack to 2 x 3ring (Stereo) female jacks.