External microphone stopped working

Product Name and Number
HP Pavillion g6 Notebook PC, LS303EA#AB9
Operating System installed
Windows 7 SP1 x64
The external microphone line suddenly stopped working, had been working perfect untill after the update of last major application instalations.
Checked sound devices, external line shows as installed butrecognizes no sounds, attempted updating drivers but no new drivers.
Audio specifications (according to HP support application):
- IDT high defenition audio CODEC (stwrt64.sys), version 6.10.6324.0
-Intel(R) Display Audio (IntcDAud.sys), version 6.14.0.3074
PS.: internal microphone still works, also the plugged in microphone still works on other computer
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Hey coolasc,
If you had a lot of updates come through, you'll want to make sure that BIOS was one of them.
BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System/Service. It is the language that all of the hardware components in your computer use to communicate with each other. There are updates which come out periodically for it so it would be best to have the latest version. The following steps were taken from here.
Windows 8: From the Start screen, type "msinfo32". Click msinfo32 from the list of results.
Windows 7&Vista: Click the Start button, type "msinfo32". Click msinfo32.exe from the list of results.
About halfway down on the right, look for BIOS Version/Date.
3. Copy and paste the information to the right of BIOS Version/Date in the value column, into your reply.
The latest version on the HP Drive Page for your particular notebook is F.66. It could be that a lot of updates other than BIOS came through and BIOS just hasn't come through quite yet (if this is the case, it would be fine to manually install the latest version). If you have a version higher than F.66 by some chance, go back to F.66 by just downloading and installing it.
The BIOS being out-of-date or just out of sync with the other updates that came through, could definitely cause an issue like this.
Please let me know if you have any questions or if these suggestions helped (this could help others with the same issue). I'll keep an eye out for your reply!

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