why is the microphone on my headsets letting out a constant static and not recording any sound?

[ramon silva1]

I recently installed windows on a new ssd because my old one was 500 gb and i moved to a new 2tb drive. The problem is that any microphone i plug in is constantly recording garbled audio static, but is not actually recording any sound from the mic. i tried reinstalling the audio drivers and updating them, but that did not solve the problem. since this happened when i switched the ssd i decided to switch them back and see if that fixed the problem, and when i did the mics worked perfectly fine.The recording device is shown as constantly recording sound though.

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