The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    v2000 - Broken headphone pin in headphone jack...

    Discussion in 'HP' started by famous_unknown, Jan 28, 2008.

  1. famous_unknown

    famous_unknown Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi,

    A friend of mine has a Compaq Presario v2000 and she has broken of a headphone pin in the notebook's headphone jack. The part remaining is the jack is roughly a third of the pin, the part above the first 'ring' of the standard 3.5mm pin. I don't have tweezers small enough to remove the thing.

    Anyone have suggestions for removing it and/or a guide to open up the notebook and remove the whole card?

    Thanks.
     
    famous_unknown, Jan 28, 2008
    #1
  2. dinapoli

    dinapoli Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    208
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    check HP site for how to open the notebook but I dout if you open the notebook you will be able to get it out the headphone jack I belive is sodered into the mobo
     
    dinapoli, Jan 28, 2008
    #2
  3. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    441
    Messages:
    3,667
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    Yup. I think she has a good excuse to check out USB headsets.
     
    brianstretch, Jan 28, 2008
    #3
  4. famous_unknown

    famous_unknown Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Yeah I was thinking that she's going to have to use a USB soundcard (she's hooks the notebook up to external speakers). More than likely, it is going to be hooked directly to the mobo. I'll take a look on the HP site anyway, to see what I can fine.

    Any suggestions on a good cheap exteranl soundcard?
     
    famous_unknown, Jan 28, 2008
    #4
  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

    Reputations:
    6,156
    Messages:
    11,214
    Likes Received:
    68
    Trophy Points:
    466
    I had a headphone pin stuck in my old 2.1 speakers before, i got the smallest drill bit i could find and carefully drilled in. Its like getting stripped screws out.

    Though i do think getting an external soundcard would be the safest way to go, they also come in 5.1 now. Check ebay, they shouldnt cost that much
     
    flipfire, Jan 28, 2008
    #5