Microphone troubles

I am running Vista 32bit and have had some microphone troubles in the past few months. Several months ago my mic was working fine on my x-fi xtreme audio sound card. Vista updated one day, and my microphone stopped working. I checked all of the usual settings, it was still my default recording device, the levels were turned all the way up. I checked my microphone on another computer, it was fine. I removed all sound drivers from my computer and re-installed the latest drivers. Still no luck. So I assumed that my line in port had kicked the bucket. I now purchased a soundblaster audigy SE sound card hoping to fix my microphone problems. I removed all sound drivers intalled the new drivers. Checked all of the stuff i have already listed above, and the new mic port is still not working. Let me clarify what I mean when I say not working. I am testing the mic in the creative audio software by unmuting everything so it will shoot back through the speakers and also using windows recorder to make sure the mic is picking up nothing. Its not turned down really silent, literally nothing is being picked up. It says the mic is in working condition in the windows recording devices menu, and the sound card is shown to be performing flawlessly in device manager. What am I missing

Alright well I re-installed the driver for the quick buttons, but it didn't work. Still having the same two problems. No Microphone. And the orange light is stuck on orange and I can't get any sound out of my computer. If I mute and un-mute it from the mixer at the bottom left side of the computer, it still doesn't work.

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Alright well I re-installed the driver for the quick buttons, but it didn't work. Still having the same two problems. No Microphone. And the orange light is stuck on orange and I can't get any sound out of my computer. If I mute and un-mute it from the mixer at the bottom left side of the computer, it still doesn't work.

[Solved] Microphone Troubles

My microphone doesn't work. That is pretty much my problem. This is my amixer output:
~/ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Mono:
Front Left: Playback [on]
Front Right: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 70 [27%] [-37.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 70 [27%] [-37.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Line',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
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Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 3 [100%]
Front Right: 3 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Side',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
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Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
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Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 3 [100%]
Front Right: 3 [100%]
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Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
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Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 12 [39%] [1.50dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 12 [39%] [1.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
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Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
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Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 120
Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
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