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A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:21 pm
by Killamike49
What the fuck do i do. The goog has been rather unhelpful. I know one of you has run into this problem before.
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:24 pm
by Raggles
How?
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:33 pm
by Sexual_Chocolate
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:59 pm
by Killamike49
Raggles wrote:How?
It was bent and such from my previous comp. The jack is like 2-3 years old an it was slightly bent. The wire goin to it was going across my room, someone must've come in and stepped on it close to my comp and it just broke off in there. Now i can't plug in my headphones. :/
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:42 am
by oprs
Killamike49 wrote:Raggles wrote:How?
It was bent and such from my previous comp. The jack is like 2-3 years old an it was slightly bent. The wire goin to it was going across my room, someone must've come in and stepped on it close to my comp and it just broke off in there. Now i can't plug in my headphones. :/
Open up your Internet Browser of choice
Go to youtube and type this in
Taken 2 Movie trailer. Watch it, reflect and watch it one more time.
Now tell me how the fuck that was approved for a movie?
About your headphone incident
Buy or obtain some really powerful glue that dries rather quickly, now apply the glue to a slim object. Right off hand I would say strip down a pen tube and use the slimmer white part that holds the ink it will slide right onto the end of your broken headphone jack. Let it dry and just work it out, repeat if necessary.
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:45 am
by Molzie
Nevalo wrote:
this actually work?
...and LOL oprs
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:51 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
yup. ask rayman, pretty sure he uses one ha
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:06 am
by Raggles
Does that thing have MIDI ports?
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:12 am
by Dystinkt
iv just started using a usb soundcard because of a similar problem, my advice is dont buy a shitty cheap one, it took a day for mine to break, i shelled out 35 quid for mine and its sturdy as fuck and sounds decent too, just a shame my headphones themselves broke too..
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:19 am
by wysockisauce
If its a desktop and the jack was on the front you could just replace it.
something like this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PC-Front-Panel- ... vi-content
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:21 am
by Ficticious
take a bent paperclip/needle or something of a similar sort, and fish it out.
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:30 am
by Terpit
I saw the exact same thread very recently
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:37 am
by Ficticious
Also heat it up to create that slight bend on the end. Thats what my buds did and it worked.
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:18 am
by particle-jim
oprs wrote:Buy or obtain some really powerful glue that dries rather quickly, now apply the glue to a slim object. Right off hand I would say strip down a pen tube and use the slimmer white part that holds the ink it will slide right onto the end of your broken headphone jack. Let it dry and just work it out, repeat if necessary.
I've had to do this before lol
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:40 am
by AxeD
Huge electric magnet.
In case of a desktop, just take it out.
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:13 pm
by lloydnoise
this has happened to me a few times, the connector snaps at one of the plastic rings (seperating L from R) with a small nubbin sticking out of the back (but, unfortunately, not sticking out of the laptop). the nubbin is metal but is surrounded by the plastic divider ring.
Both times it took me at least an hour or 2 but I finally managed to grip the nubbins with a pair of long jewellers pliers -
If that doesn't work, get some thing like a thin nail/needle/screw, heat it up and push it into the plastic divider ring (if it's showing). Once the plastic has set round the nail/screw, try easing it out, hopefully it will hold with enough strength to pull out.
if you really can't get it out with those methods, you should be able to see inside the port by taking the casing off of your laptop (get an anti static band) although nowadays alot of these ports are totally sealed so you won't be any better off. Unfortunately the only way to check this is to remove the casing, which is annoying
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:04 pm
by hugh
same nearly happened to me, now my whole headphone is stuck in the computer and can't get it out, I have literally no idea how it is stuck but w/e
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:28 pm
by dickman69
Cheeky wrote:iv just started using a usb soundcard because of a similar problem, my advice is dont buy a shitty cheap one, it took a day for mine to break, i shelled out 35 quid for mine and its sturdy as fuck and sounds decent too, just a shame my headphones themselves broke too..
i paid $10 for 3 and 2 are still working
2 years later
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:07 pm
by wobbles
3.5 is for f@99075
Re: A headphone jack broke off in my computer.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:10 pm
by Killamike49
rayman612 wrote:Cheeky wrote:iv just started using a usb soundcard because of a similar problem, my advice is dont buy a shitty cheap one, it took a day for mine to break, i shelled out 35 quid for mine and its sturdy as fuck and sounds decent too, just a shame my headphones themselves broke too..
i paid $10 for 3 and 2 are still working
2 years later
Could you link me to what your talking about? Is it like that 3d sound thing posted up above?