Microphone and speakers disabled and i apparently can't do anything about it

[Eldiabloklk]

My audio setup consists of 1 set of speakers, a pair of bluetooth headphones and a microphone. Both my speakers and my mic connect via audio and mic jacks, not usb. I recently reinstalled windows on a new ssd and formatted my old hard drive. It was all running ok until i thought to plug in my headphones to the computer through the front panel audio, at which point my microphone started sounding a lot quieter for some reason and my headphones weren't picking up any sound.

 

A couple of days later i am getting really fed up with this microphone issue so i try to plug it into both the audio and mic jacks in the front of the case (don't ask me why, i was too paranoid). Now neither of them are being recognized bt my machine. I can see them in device manager, but they seem to be disabled or hidden. I also tried checking in with my realtek driver (which i had 2 days ago) and poof, it just wasn't there. I tried reinstalling it but it doesn't work. It doesn't let me install a driver from device manager because it's apparently already up to date. I am officially out of ideas. Can someone please tell me what i have to do to get my microphone and speakers back? My bluetooth headphones still work btw.

 

Thanks in advance.

[MajorityHippo]

I would try going into your sound settings, not the windows sound settings, but whatever audio driver you use e.g. Realtek. And somewhere in the settings it should give you the option to Separate audio streams as independent sources. Try that. It worked for me once upon a time.