first build audio issues

Henry Blaxton · March 18, 2024

I just built a PC with a MSI B550-A pro and a generic Bluetooth adapter and I have 2 questions

1. I'm just trying to play games with my brother and I can't talk, only audio works. On the Front media panel or whatever its called(new to this PC thing) there are separate audio and microphone jacks and not a combined one. I haven't been able to input through there either. I have tried multiple ports on the front and the back, usb 2 and three. When I connect airpods or my Q20i soundcore headphones, it recognizes it as a voice and audio, then when I try to use it it doesn't work. If I test audio in windows (11) settings, It no longer recognizes it as audio. I am lost. I think its probably not a bluetooth issue but a hardware issue but who knows.

2. I do have two audio cables (one not pictured but it has an HD audio and an AC'97 and it comes from the lower header) and two other things I didnt plug into the mobo bc I couldn't find where they go and linus didn't mention them in the guide as far as I heard. The black USB and the Italian colored 5V come from the lower front media panel and the audio one comes from the upper.