Tech problem recording in Audition on my new laptop

I just bought an ASUS Tuf Gaming laptop and when I connect my mics to it, I get about 30 frames of recording & none of the sound seems to even being from the mic. I've tried it without mics, just the laptop mic. Same problem. 30 frames of audio and then nothing. Tested multiple cables, the connection setup is fine and I downloaded Audacity to test and that worked just fine. Only Audition thinks that it should record 30 seconds from the beyond instead of my VO. Anyone run into this problem?  Oh, it's 32 gigs of ram, a terabyte of storage & a ryzen 7 7735. Any suggestions what else to try? Oh, I've already uninstalled and reinstalled Audition. Attached is a little snippet of the hot action.