My Set Up:Windows 8, Acer V5 122p, Single combo microphone jack,Sony ear buds with built in mic.Audio Drivers: AMD High Definition Audio Device, Bluetooth Audio Device,High Definition Audio Device. (All enabled)My problem: The audio works fine. When I connect my earphones into my laptop, no new devices show up under control panel sound recording.
Firstly make sure that the USB connecting into the microphone itself is upright and matches the shape of the socket as that is a common mistake.If that is not the issue than:While the microphone is plugged in and unrecognized, open the Device Manager.Then find the Blue Snowball in the list, it will most likely be something along the lines of 'Unrecognized Device'.Right click it, and click uninstall.Then unplug the cable from both the snowball and the computer, wait a while, and plug them back in.It should now be recognized. I had the same problem, and checked everywhere online and all the solutions were way to trivial to be a solution like unpluging it, or flipping the input plug. I finally figured whu the drivery wasnot working, it's because it shouldn't have one. When you plug it in windows assumes it needs a driver to run so it finds one but it doesn't work and you are left with an unrecognized mic. Steps to fix this are as follows:1. Uninstall driver for the device2.
Hi there, My brand new Blue Snowball microphone just arrived and I'm trying to set it up but my PC does not seem to recognize it. I plugged it in and the red LED light turned on but the mic isn't showing up in recording devices, nor is it showing up anywhere in Device Manager. Hi, so today I picked up a pair of Siberia v3's, and I used the splitter that came with the headset. The headphones work fine but the mic doesn't work. In thought it was just with my pair but I tried with some other headphones and it still didn't work. It just shows Microphone Array (Not my mic) and Stereo Mix. Please help thanks! Adding a new headset through Control Panel Set Up Headset (During the testing phase the computer failed to pick up any audio and so could not set up the head set.) Trying this with different head sets and different laptops (Nothing ever showed up) Testing the mic with an android tablet (The mic worked).
Disconnect mic3. Plug it back in4.
When the bubble pops up that it's installing the driver click on it5. A window should appear and near the bottom it should have a blue link that asks if you want windows to stop looking for a driver in windows update6. It should then load and recognize the device as a blue micNote: The first time I did this it didn't work but it was because I was too slow on clicking the blue link, even though I still had tinto click it.
If this happens repeat the process but step your game up and move quicker. I had the same problem, and checked everywhere online and all the solutions were way to trivial to be a solution like unpluging it, or flipping the input plug. I finally figured whu the drivery wasnot working, it's because it shouldn't have one. When you plug it in windows assumes it needs a driver to run so it finds one but it doesn't work and you are left with an unrecognized mic. Steps to fix this are as follows:1. Uninstall driver for the device2.
Disconnect mic3. Plug it back in4. When the bubble pops up that it's installing the driver click on it5. A window should appear and near the bottom it should have a blue link that asks if you want windows to stop looking for a driver in windows update6. It should then load and recognize the device as a blue micNote: The first time I did this it didn't work but it was because I was too slow on clicking the blue link, even though I still had tinto click it. If this happens repeat the process but step your game up and move quicker.
Good luckOMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! IT WORKED FOR ME!!!!! I had the same problem, and checked everywhere online and all the solutions were way to trivial to be a solution like unpluging it, or flipping the input plug.
I finally figured whu the drivery wasnot working, it's because it shouldn't have one. When you plug it in windows assumes it needs a driver to run so it finds one but it doesn't work and you are left with an unrecognized mic. Steps to fix this are as follows:1. Uninstall driver for the device2.
Disconnect mic3. Plug it back in4. When the bubble pops up that it's installing the driver click on it5.
A window should appear and near the bottom it should have a blue link that asks if you want windows to stop looking for a driver in windows update6. It should then load and recognize the device as a blue micNote: The first time I did this it didn't work but it was because I was too slow on clicking the blue link, even though I still had tinto click it.
If this happens repeat the process but step your game up and move quicker. Thanks for this. Was slightly different under Windows 10 but same basic idea.Under Windows 10:1. When you plug it in Windohs will automatically install the driver.At this point, I was seeing it listed under Control Panel Sound Recording Devices (volume bar moved and everything) and I was seeing it Device Manager. However, when I would try to set it up as the microphone for Windows Speech, I would click through to the screen where you're supposed to start talking and then get this lovely error. TLDR; if you just want it to work with Windows Speech Recognition (WSR), skip to the end and try the registry hack.So. I just happened to be going through a clean install of Windows 10 for an entirely different issue and I retried my steps above with no success.
Microphone Not Showing Up In Recording Devices Windows 7
I started going through and trying a myriad of different things while keeping very detailed notes.At one point many uninstall/unplug/replug/reboot cycles in, I decided to try doing the setup via settings instead of launching my WSR shortcut for it. Got the same 'Peter talks to his computer.' Dialog, this time without any error pop-ups. Although it mentioned Cortana this time instead of WSR.
Then I went back to control panel, skipped the mic setup, and went straight to train your computer. Was able to go through several screens without any problems (didn't complete it, was just testing). At that point, I started thinking that maybe WSR is just getting stuck on something.Since my mic was obviously working with the default drivers, I decided to see if I could get WSR to quit being an idiot. After playing around in the registry, I found that simply changing one value did the trick. No more restarts/mucking around withh drivers.So, assuming you just want it to work with WSR and it is already picking up sound in the dialogs I described above, the below command should do the trick. I'll probably end up doing another clean install sometime in the near future and will try to confirm if any mucking with the drivers is required at all or not prior to this.
I suspect that the default driver might be just fine and WSR is the only one with the hang-up.from command prompt run (all on one line).