I have been unable to get any input from my laptop’s microphone. As far as I can tell, it is completely absent, and not just muffled. The only exception is when the privacy switch, which causes a short “blip” to register on the input channel. External USB microphones work just fine.
Device specifications:
OS: Windows 10
Processor: 12th Gen Intel Core, i7-1280P
All drivers are up to date.
Things I have tried:
Reinstalling the driver bundle
Restarting the device
Replacing the webcam module
Any ideas? I tried looking at previous threads but none of the fixes in them seemed to help.
I know it isn’t the ideal thing, but the 12th gen Mainboard does not officially support Windows 10. Things like suspend not working correctly and other issues are thing outside of Framework’s control and are the result of this lack of compatibility.
There are some who might still be using Windows 10 despite that, so maybe they’ll chime in, but the official answers is to move to Windows 11.
Same issue here, on an 11th gen Framework. It’s also running Windows 10 (which I don’t think is relevant).
I believe the mic was working fine before. I first noticed the issue after discovering (and disabling/enabling) the mic toggle switch. The switch was weirdly stiff before, but doesn’t seem to be now. I wonder if something broke.
It’s working now, and unclear if it was ever consistently not working before. Details below.
Thanks, this prompted me to look more closely (with a loupe). There did seem to be a bit of scratched plastic rising up in between the optical switch sensor, which I tried to scrape away with a small flathead. BUT I’m not sure if this actually made any difference, or this was an issue to begin with…
I had a video conference lately where the other party couldn’t hear me. In Windows sound settings, under “Test your microphone” (pictured below), when I speak and look at the mic audio level, it doesn’t register anything, until I get very close to it, like 1 foot away, and then just barely. As if the mic has some ginormous dynamic range (suspect). And this Windows settings behavior did not change after my attempted fix.
But since attempting the fix, I’ve tried other test methods (video recording myself with the camera app, and https://mictests.com/), and it seems to work fine. So now it’s not clear to me whether I ever had an actual problem other than whatever specific video conference software not picking up my mic, and the bad levels/UI/UX of the Windows Sound settings “Test your microphone” area.
