Solved! Laptop Problem: When I connect my microphone to my laptop it acts like it is my default speakers, the microphone doesnt work!?

[assassingamer2004]

When I plug In my microphone on my laptop, I can't hear my speakers anymore and the microphone act's like its the speakers plus the microphone in general cant detect any voice. I know it works perfectly fine when I connect it to my ipad to test my voice but on my laptop nothing is working! Please help me since this is starting to really piss my off

 

[webworkings]

Are you sure that the jack you are plugging into is indeed something that can run a microphone? Some laptops have a singular output only (speaker only) one which would not allow the microphone to work. Or it could be a dual one (input/output) but not be functioning correctly (also really common).

A simple way around this would be to get a 3.5mm to USP adapter and connect via a USB port instead.