Realtek MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk Sound issue / very low microphone volume

Troubleshooting

So I recently switched out my old Asrock B850 Pro RS in favor of the Tomahawk, as I did not want to risk my Asrock board to fry another 9800X3D. So I went back to the old trusty Tomahawk of MSI. I always had MSI in the past and it never failed me.

I'm still running windows 10 for now and I was just switching out my board and changing nothing else on my computer. Since my last CPU died I couldn't uninstall the Asrock drivers (not sure if that's a problem or not) so I just booted into my windows and the MSI driver installation thing popped up, I installed or updated every driver that I need and then hopped on a discord call. Everything was fine except my friends were just barely able to hear me by cranking up my volume to 200% and I needed to go to an additional mic boost of 20% to have a similar volume and even then it feels worse.

Keep in mind on my last Asrock motherboard they understood me completely fine with just my mic volume set to 100. (no mic boost)

Looking for a solution I uninstalled all audio drivers. restarted and installed the newest drivers from the MSI website, but now I also lost the Realtek app that shows information when I connect a different audio device and the mic issue is still the same.

Also the new Realtek driver just says Realtek USB Audio, even though my speakers are connected via the 3.5mm jack and I don't even have any usb audio device.

TL;DR: My mic volume is way too low and my driver seems incorrect. Reinstallation of the newest driver doesn't help.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? I did another round of uninstall and reinstalling with the same result. I also updated to the latest bios. I looked at MSI center for help, but that didn't help at all as well.

Posted Aug 9, 2025, 7:14 PM UTC

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