Homerecording issue on Laptop

[TheSoleSurvivor]

Hello people! I own an ASUS X550JX with a Conextant HD soundcard (which is totally inferior) and would like to record my guitar on Guitar Rig 5 by connecting my guitar to my Laptop via 6.5 mm to 3.5 mm adapter which looks like this;

My motherboard has only one "combo" input which includes both microphone and headphone combined. So i attached this cable in order to split the mic and headphone input;

Then i connected my guitar to the mic input with the 6.5 mm to 3.5 mm adapter attached, and a speaker to the headphone input, went over to the Guitar Rig 5 and started to play.

Unfortunately, the only sound i get is the distorted signal sound which comes from the internal amps on the Rig. When i disable the amps and try to get a clean sound, i only hear myself clicking and my fans working. That's right, the application uses not the mic input i want to use, but it uses the microphone of the Laptop itself.

I checked the routing options in the application and saw that the input was the Conextant Stereo Mix, and the output was the Conextant audio output.

I tried using the ASIO4ALL application to tinker with my soundcard options only to see that there were only 3 options which were;

-Conextant HD Sound
+Conextant HD Stereo mix
+Conextant HD audio capture
+Conextant HD audio output

Nothing less, nothing more. Now, is there any option other from acquiring an external soundcard or a pre-amp to fix this issue? If so, can you provide me with it?

 

[webworkings]

If it is using the laptop microphone then it isn't registering the external one. Also, I have found using a splitter like that (if the 3.5mm port on the laptop is actually dual input/output) it often doesn't work. And if it isn't a dual port then it won't work at all with the mic.

You would be better off (and should actually work) getting a USB version. One you can plug both the speaker (or headphones) and the mic into and then connect the USB to the laptop. Then it should actually work.