Computer isn't registering that my mic is plugged in

Gikka218

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I use a blue nessie usb mic, and I normally plug my headphones into the built-in jack on the mic. But one day the mic stopped showing up under both playback and recording devices, I stopped getting audio from my headphones when plugged into the mic, and it doesn't work for voice chat. The mic still lights up when it's plugged in, so it's still working, but the device isn't showing up at all in my sound devices like it used to.

I've tried restarting my computer and enabling "show disabled devices" and "show disconnected devices". I'm using a lenovo y50, with windows 8.1 Sorry if this is the wrong area to post this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
Solution
Just because it lights up does not mean it's really working. Test the setup in another system. If it works there you can start checking out things like removing and re-installing audio and chipset drivers.