Why does my microphone only work on Line In?

[wraith3k]

I've got a mic plugged into the microphone port on my motherboard, but for some reason I have to go into the recording properties in windows and set it to be the line in port. This is the only way it works. If I choose the microphone port, which seems like what I'm supposed to do, it doesn't work. This creates problems in games like Counterstrike because the game will keep changing it back to microphone automatically (in the windows recording properties), which causes it to stop working. Any idea why I can't just select microphone as the port to use?

 

[dman]

Not 100% sure but you can assign the audio ports to serve as different functions in some chipsets. For exmaple, on Nforce, the audio control panel can be used to assign the ports as either 2spk / 4spk / 5.1 and depending on what you pick the function of the port is either line in or speaker out, mic in or speaker out, etc.

But, you can't switch the inputs, (switch mic and line-in ports) only choose between input or output (dpeending on surround mode).

Anyway, check your driver settings (maybe AC97 audio)?

 

[willfreund]

It sounds like your windows drivers are not set
GA-K8NSNXP has realtek, You first need to set your speaker orientation for 4 speakers from the windows control pannel.Then set your realteks to 6 speakers. If all goes well put them all to 6 speakers, or all to surrond 5.1

 

[wraith3k]

Oops, I meant the line in port, that's the port I've got selected in windows. Thanks for the responses, but I've checked my settings and everything seems ok. It's set to two speakers mode (which is my setup). I'm using the nvmixer util that came with the nvidia chipset drivers.