my computer keeps recognizing my microphone as a speaker

Question

I feel like I have tried everything at this point. My windows 11 computer has misinterpreted my steel series microphone as a speaker only. Since it thinks its an output device its unusable. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall it in device manager already. I already tried to disable the microphone on my headphones so it might be forced to recognize the microphone but no luck. It is plugged in as a usb in the motherboard already too. When the microphone is plugged in is picking up my audio but i guess it isn't transmitting it to the computer. If anyone has any ideas I would love the help.

Answer 1

Hello,

If your computer has a Realtek sound card driver, you can try the following steps:

1. Open Control Panel and click Hardware and Sound.
2. In Hardware and Sound, find Realtek HD Audio Manager.
3. Go to Device Advanced Settings.
4. Select “Make internal and external output devices play two different audio streams simultaneously.”