Microphone trouble

[Mozesh]

I recently bought a microphone, a HQ-Mic30 to be precise:

just to show you what kind of mic we're dealing with here

I use it for beatboxing and it works pretty good, I put it in my amplifier and it works fine, so now I want to record some stuff, so I plug it into the microphone input of my computer.
But alas, no sound was recorded, for some reason my computer can't use this mic in the microphone input.
(The thing was designed to do so since the standard cable plug is a 3.5 mm one.)
I plugged it into the line-in plug-in and now it seems to work.
So all is well you might say, but no, the sound I get is really low on volume, nothing a simple amplify option in goldwave or any other program can't handle, but I would like to use it directly as my main computer mic, for using it on msn for example while fooling around with some other beat boxers, but then the volume is too low for my taste.
Unfortunately there is no boost option for line-in in windows.
So do any of you know a way to boost my line-in or get my new microphone to work in the microphone plug-in?

Cheers
--Mozesh

[m0ds]

I see what you mean, it's a problem I've encountered in the past. There is no way of turning up the line-in volume unless you are able to put the microphone through an ampifier & then into the line-in socket.

It's strange that the microphone socket didn't work. I presume you did open your sound settings, select "recording" and checked the "microphone" box?

I've recently plugged a mic into my mic-in socket and it didn't work, and I couldn't explain it at all. Perhaps your microphone needs phantom power... I dunno.

[nihilyst]

Is it 3,5mm mono or stereo? I once had a mono one, that didn't work on my computer. A stereo one did.

[Mozesh]

I don't know really, I think it's a mono then. Also trying to use the 6,35 adapter that came with it and plugging that into a 6,35->3,5 adapter, which I already own and is stereo I think, only gives me static when plugging that in. (that was pretty dumb wasn't it...?)
And yeah m0ds I did check the microphone box

[ManicMatt]

What are your voice recording and playback set to, in your sound settings? Did you try the test hardware?

[Mozesh]

Yeah I did, and just did again. One thing it did fix though, when I first recorded via line-in I only got sound in the left channel, now I got sound in both left and right.

[RickJ]

If the  jack is mono then it will have two conductors and if it's stereo it will have three.   Probably Radio has an adapter that will connect the mono input to both chanels, otherwise get out your pliers and soldering iron and make one yourself.   

[Renal Shutdown]

Does your amp have a line-out (or "send", i think. not "return")? Or failing that, a speaker in it with a jack connection?Ã,  If so, feed a wire from those, into the Line-In port of the PC.

EDIT:
..Er, just like m0ds said.