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Having an ACER LAPTOP with the Swift series. Are you facing the same issue with the microphone? Don’t worry. This tutorial will show you how and where to find the microphone and use it for different gaming and audio recording purposes. Also, I will guide you on making your microphone working or fixing the issue in ACER swift 3 laptops, Acer Swift 5 and Acer Swift 7.
Let’s see microphone related issue and where the microphone is located. Enable a Built-in microphone and enable the driver for an audio jack of 3.5mm. If you face these problems, then go with my article. You will get a solution and fix your query.
Few problems discussed In below are:
Where Is The Inbuilt Microphone Located?
The models of Acer laptop have an integrated camera in the laptop itself. So, if your model consists of an Integrated camera, then you would have noticed a small tiny hole consisting of your microphone beside the camera.
The image shown below shows you the numeric number 1, which is of the microphone.
Why The Microphone Is Not Working?
A microphone can many times goes num eventually, to overcome this problem we have a solution for you.
Follow these steps for the related issues:
- Search for “type to search” { bottom left }, go to “change sound card settings” and press Enter.
- Search for the recording tab in there
- Select the show available devices from the menu by clicking the right click.
- So it will pop up the enabled and not enabled devices, select the built-in recording device and select “Enable” from the menu.
If microphone issues are still the same as before, you don’t need to worry after doing the following steps. We have another solution for it too. So kindly go through the following further questions.
More Fix: Microphone Not Working on Acer Laptop Windows 11 & Windows 10.
Diagnose the Microphone issue in App
most of the app has personal control on the microphone to adjust the Microphone sound level and mute control like in Skype, Google Hangouts, Facebook Video Chat, WhatsApp, Viber, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Zoom Meeting.
So go to the App Settings and check the microphone settings. to fix the issue within the app.
Otherwise, I recommend testing microphone using the another app that might be one of the above lists.
If you are using the service through the browser then make sure the microphone is not blocked by your browser. enable the settings by clicking on the allow button.
or Manually go to Settings, Click on the lock icon > Site Settings
Microphone and Allow it for Tab in Google Chrome browser.
How To Update The BIOS Driver?
As many times the microphone, not working issues are also related to BIOS update or due to driver issues. These issues also tend to sound errors or weird sound issues. To overcome, we would guide you on how to update the driver and install it.
Follow the steps to get the drivers updated :
- go to the Acer official site and check for the updated bios file.
- You have to format a USB key to fat32 and get it unzipped file on it.
- After this activate the BIOS utility, by pressing the <F2> key during the POST; while the notebook PC logo is being displayed.
- Check the flash utility on the last tab.
- select the update from the USB key.
- follow the instructions for the letter! Displayed there
- just do not unplug, turn off and remove the battery until finished, so it won’t affect the update.
Or
- For updating the bios you can download from the link given as https://www.acer.com/ac/sv/SE/content/support-product/7485?b=1&pn=NX.GTMED.006&sn=83402459966
- As processing through this link, you can go under firmware in BIOS.
- After proceeding you can then updates DMIC settings and make sure to enable WoV.
- You can find the filename as BIOS_Acer_1.07_A_A.zip.
- After downloading the file unzip the file and install it with the power cable connected.
How To Enable The Driver For The Audio Jack Of 3.5mm?
Many times the microphone gets stopped due to unknown facts. However, we have made a clear observation above for how to resolve the microphone issues.
If the problems have been the same here, I will guide you on using an external mic or 3.5mm cable as an external mic.
Follow these steps as mentioned:
- Plug your jack cable into the device as you do the onscreen will get you a pop-up and click yes to the popup.
- After following the on-screen notations kindly go to the apps list and go for Realtek audio console.
- Following go through the device advance settings in it.
- Afterward, go to the connector in retasking analog.
- Now try changing from headphones to speakers then again from speakers to headphones.
Here’s the list of a few jack cables in case you don’t have any.
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How to Enable Built-in microphone?
Windows do have a different setting for activating the microphone in the HP laptop.
To do so, check whether the microphone is not disabled. For this to perform, you can check the above steps performed that might be helpful to activate the internal mic.
For we have a different line up of steps:
- Go for the control panel in the search bar.
- Open the sound icon and select the inputs option.
- Activate/click the pull-down approach (Hardware pull-down ) further select the internal microphone In the device to be used and then apply the settings.
Or
- Search for “type to search” { bottom left }, go to “change sound card settings” and press Enter.
- Search for the recording tab in there
- Select the show available devices from the menu by clicking the right click.
- So it will pop up the enabled and not enabled devices, select the built-in recording device and select “Enable” from the menu.
If these steps don’t let your mic gets enabled, you can see the above queries too.
