Windows 10: Windows Dell laptop not asking what i plug in and audio/mic dont work

so recently i got a 4 year old gaming laptop Dell G3 15 and my headphone jack randomly stopped working. i cleaned it out and troubleshooted on google and nothing worked. when it did rarely work no audio would play and mic would barely make any sound. i tried doing this with 2 different headphone 1 with and 1 without mic and I cant really think of anything else. could someone please help me I don't know what to do and I have to use headphones for my stuff.

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Laptop not splitting headset mic & audio?

Hi
Simple version. When i plug in my headset to my laptop windows10 is not splitting it into one output and one input.

I fixed this years back by setting the popup box 'whats plugged in' from headphone to headset. Then it split the audio and mic. However i had to reinstall windows and now when i select headset it just mutes my laptop mic and audio manager just shows the one mic, but two audio outputs.

It was working before the reset and i have tested the headset on another computer and it is working find.
So far i tried device manage audio driver install, for both Realtek driver and High Definition driver but either resolve the issue.

Any suggestions why windows would pick up one and not the other?

I currently have it set to headphone plugged in so that i can use my laptop mic, but ive been told i sound really bad *Sad

Cheers,
Zola

 

Earphones Mic not working

Hi all,I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5577 Gaming laptop, running Windows 10 Version 1803 build 17134.165. My laptop has one 3.5 mm jack where I plug my Earpods (Apple's earphones with mic) to use it as headphones and mic always works but yesterday out of nowhere it stopped working. I checked my Earpods with my iPhone and the mic would work just fine but not with the laptop.

Realtek audio driver is already installed but there's no realteks audio icon to configure or make changes. When I connect my Earpods, I can hear through them but the mic doesn't work however if I speak close to the internal mic I can see that green bar moving up which exists in Sounds>Recording.

I updated the Intel graphic driver to the latest version 2 days ago and the Mic would work fine.

Few steps which I tried to fix the issue but didn't help:

1) Tried to setup mic: No go
2) Tried reinstalling/updating audio drivers: No go
3) Checked Microphone privacy settings and its ON
4) Unchecked Allow application to take exclusive control of this device: No go

Can someone help me on this?
Thank you

 

my Docooler wired Condenser Mic for computer audio 3.5mm doesnt work on my windows 10 dell insiprion laptop doesnt work

i tried looking at alot of youtube videos and none of them worked

plus i have a headphone and microphone splitter connected to it and it only works for my headphones bc my laptop only has one connected for headphones only

i tried these steps:

attempt 1:

• i right clicked the volume icon and clicked "Open sound settings"
  
• the only thing that shows up in "choose your input mic" is the Microphone (Realtek(R) Audio) which is the built-in mic for my dell insprion windows 10 laptop
  
• i checked the "test your microphone" and it only worked from my laptops mic
  

attempt 2

• i searched "microphone privacy settings" in the windows search bar
  
• everything is enabled "microphone access" and "allow apps to access your microphone" "allow desktop apps to use your microphone" i enabled them all
  

attempt 3

• searched "control panel"
  
• clicked "hardware and sound"
  
• clicked the "manage audio devices"
  
• went to the "recording" section in my "sound" app
  
• i cant find my docooler consender mic in the recording section but i can only see my headphones (Realtek(R) audio connected from my headphone and mic splitter that is connected to my laptop and i have my mic turned on because it has a on and off switch
  

attempt 4

• i used my headphone and mic splitter and turned my mic on with the switch that says on and off and its on "ON"
  

attempt 5

• i updated my laptop
  
• i reseted it
  
• it didnt work
  

I REALLY NEED HELP I USED ALOT OF MONEY ON THIS MIC I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!11