Solved microphone not detected as audio device

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Jessica Kumar

Jessica Kumar

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the mic worked fine until I messed around with some settings and now it's not detected as an audio input device. When I go to the devices in settings, it shows up under other devices instead of audio. When I go to select the input device it's also not an option to select. If I go to device manager, the mic shows up under "libusb-win32 Usb devices" and not under audio or anything sound related (i unplugged the mic back and forth to figure out where it showed up). I tried updating the drivers on the website but when I launch the wizard it just doesn't detect the microphone. I tried using it on another pc and it worked just fine so the mic itself doesn't seem to be the issue.

How would I go about fixing this problem?
 
Malnutrition said:
Try doing a system restore to a point before you messed around with the settings.


www.howtogeek.com

How to Use System Restore on Windows 10 and Windows 11

Deleting Windows system folders is still a really bad idea.
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Malnutrition said:
@Jessica Kumar did the system restore solve the issue?
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I didn’t have any system restore points before that so I wiped the pc completely (didn’t work) but after I updated to windows 11 the mic connected properly.
 
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