Mic not working with Realtek HD

[pmanstis]

I have a dell Vostro 200 running Windows XP SP3 with a Realtek HD sound card. I am unable to get my mic working although it has previously worked on this computer.
The mic is part of a headset which I have checked on another computer and is working fine. The sound comes through perfectly clearly.
I have tried both front and back ports, the pink ports are correct according to graphics in Realtek Audio Manager.
I have tried almost every mixer setting I could think of including having everything unmuted and volume turned up to max.
I have been testing using Sound Recorder, Movie Maker, and Skype but dosen't seem to make any difference.
I have downloaded and installed latest driver over top of old one.
Realtek got me to send them a dump of sound card but have not got back to me.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

 

[Tmagic650]

You may have a driver conflict or a virus or other malware infection. Do you see any yellow exclamation points in the device manager?

 

[pmanstis]

Problem Resolved

Thanks for your reply
It turned out that the problem wasn't with the sound card but rather a hardware problem with the connections on the inside of the mic socket on the front of my computer. I purchased a new mic that worked on the front for a while but stopped but it works fine when plugged into back.

 

[Tmagic650]

Thanks for the update pmanstis