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    fixing damaged headphone jack notebook

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by msennello, Dec 18, 2006.

  1. msennello

    msennello Newbie

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    I'm almost positive my headphone jack is busted, and I also am almost positive I know exactly when it happened. I started having problems after an incident when I forgot I had my headphones on, stood up, and yanked on the headphones pretty hard. Since then I can't really hear anything out of the left side of my headphones unless I bend the crap out of the male end of the headphones. I have an Inspiron 600m. Is there any way I can replace the jack without a) ripping up spot solders, or b) sending it back to Dell and dropping a ton of cash to have them fix it?

    ps - my microphone is simply not working, but I believe it stopped working a while ago, so I suspect it's just the mic itself, but could this be related? i.e. is it possible that my soundcard is damaged, but no warning signs show up in D/M?
     
    msennello, Dec 18, 2006
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  2. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Well…. If you are familiar with repairing this kind of things and if you are confident enough to take apart your notebook, then you can always try. Otherwise you can get a USB / pcmcia sound card ( USB will be chaper) or a pair of USB headphones/speakers
     
    PhoenixFx, Dec 18, 2006
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