Microphone suddenly not picking up any audio

[malyblondacik]

I have headphones with a microphone that require a splitter to work. This morning I installed the Windows 10 1803 update and a GPU driver update. Then when I tried to call my friend on discord I noticed the microphone doesn't work. Yesterday it worked just fine. I tried installing drivers from MSI but it didn't help. I tried nearly all of the settings in the Realtek HD Audio Manager and Sound in windows. It probably is a software issue since the headphones and microphone (using the same splitter) work just fine on a different computer. using different headphones produced the same result (Both on the front and back jacks). The windows troubleshooter didn't find any issues.

 

[Lutfij]

What is the make and model of your headset? Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling the Realtek audioo drivers from Realtek's support site? Additionally I'd ask you to double check and see if your motherboard has any BIOS updates pending.

 

[malyblondacik]

Ok well I figured it out. The new windows update adds new permission settings to microphones which I had turned off. One of the programs I use called DoNotSpy10 which turns off different windows features turned off microphone permissions so changing the settings in windows and the application fixed my issue. Thanks for the help though.

 

[Connote]

Ok well I figured it out. The new windows update adds new permission settings to microphones which I had turned off. One of the programs I use called DoNotSpy10 which turns off different windows features turned off microphone permissions so changing the settings in windows and the application fixed my issue. Thanks for the help though.

Hey, think I have this problem. My microphone no longer works, on all micrphones i own. I have no idea what this is.