L655D-S5050 Internal Mic Not Plugged In? Stumped!

I reviewed related forum posts without success. My Toshiba laptop L655D-S5050 hard drive failed a few months ago so I replaced the hard drive. The recovery disks I originally made did not work (no apparent reason why) so I ended up reinstalling drivers / software from this toshiba site.
This laptop has a little microphone up there next to the web camera which "use to be" great for skype.
Everything (speakers, webcam, etc) seems to work fine except that microphone!
When I right click on the sound icon and select Recording Devices it shows Microphone Not Plugged In. How can I plug that little mic in? Or get it to work?
I borrowed my wife's USB Plantronics headset and it does show up as a working device below the "microphone not plugged in". I have since used this headset to skype but I want the little built in mic to work so I dont need to steal her headset (happy wife - happy life).
I read these forums and uninstalled and reinstalled the realtek driver - even used different releases from the Toshiba downlaods for my specific laptop. I also updated the bios (per a few forum threads) to the latest which didn't work. Then I installed a previous version bios to see if that would work. No such luck - Microphone Not Plugged In.
Is there some software I need to install different than a driver?
Thanks in advance - Mark

Dransh, it's not clear from your last message if after you loaded BIOS defaults, whether or not you disabled 'fast boot' or 'quick boot', or whatever you called it, or did you re-enable it ? Regardless, make sure to disable fast boot, save and exit. Reboot into Windows.
Click the 'Start' button, type in dev , click on 'Device Manager', click on the arrow beside 'Sound, video and game controllers', right click on the 'Conexant audio' device, click on 'Uninstall', put the check mark on 'Delete the driver software for this device', click 'OK', Shutdown the system.
Try the full system reset again with fast boot disabled, follow the instructions from before, boot into Windows, install the Conexant audio driver again, test.
Let us know what happens. Good luck.
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