Noooo~~~ My headphone jack..

It's broken, and I can't believe I just noticed today...

I've always used speakers at home and never used headphones. Today, I went to the University and plugged in my headphones and discovered only the right ear piece works. If I push the jack part to the left, both ears will work, but that's only if I hold it there. I tried pushing it to the point where both work and holding it there for a while, but it's still broken.

Any ideas on how to fix it?

 

Is it 5793,that problem is a known one.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=209774

 

My headphones just died a bit back, and it had the same issues you described. But once I bought a new pair, everything was fine. Try checking the headphones before blaming the computer. But yeah, the green jack of death is a big problem around here.

 

I don't understand...the green jack worked fine for speakers, but not headphones?

 

And thats AFTER is "dies"? thats really strange.

 

Yea! GJOD is becoming a real pain now a days as more nd more ppl seem to be getting it!!

Ain't Sager gonna do something about it!? or they're like "ok! its only a few notebooks that r affected neways, we're gonna release new notebooks so why waste money on changing the whole jack thing on NP5793!!!"

btw i made a thread abt this prob! http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3384992#post3384992

Hopefully u'll find something useful there!

GJOD: Sager! here i come!!
Sager: ........hmmm..... what?!(pretends to know nothing!)
Sager Customer: wth!!! my jack died! noooo!:cry:
Sager: hmmm... u'll have to rma it!!(he he he!! $$$)

lol! no offence to anybody! but i guess this is the current picture!!
agn no offence!

Sry if i'm wrong! but, i believe I'm not!!

 

Yup same for me. Two of the ports on my audio jacks don't work any more. I have to keep constant pressure on them. So I just went ahead and bought the Creative Xfi card. Its tons better anyways.

 

Yea this sure is annoying. I'm going to RMA this laptop for a motherboard change, then I'll re-solder the POS myself. I'm tired of this crap.

 

It's not sagers fault per se...Although they should be able to have a pretty good go at clevo if enough ppl have a go at them...

 

so does the jack still work for speakers after it dies? Because that would be really interesting. Can someone test this real fast?

 

that jack needs to be repaired. if you are brave you can do this yourself.. i know the 2 i fixed went to sager were repaired came back worked for maybe a week or two then both died again, after i opened them up and made sure they were good and soldered the crap out of them they seem to be fine now.. going on more than a month

 

so is the problem a physical connection one?

 

I'm going to be purchasing an 860ru tomorrow. The GJOD only affects the NP5793 right?

 

no one knows, no one has ever heard of a 860ru before.
But for the 860tu... still no one knows because non of us have used a 860tu either.

 

GJOD , now there`s something you don`t hear every day
I would imagine the 860TU to be a bit better in this department.
But since most of you guys have not tried Creative`s USB and Exp-Slot sollutions, you don`t know what you`re missing.
The USB Live! 24 bit is amazing to say the least, and the xi-fi is even better than that.

 

Oh yea man! The X-Fi is just plain heavenly !

 

Yea! the most correct way to explain X-Fi is as Prasad rightly said! "Heavenly"!!!

 

Sorry, still getting used to this whole "three names per laptop" thing

I mean the NP2092/compal jfl92

 

the jfl92 i have not heard of any issues with the headphone jack.. the 5793 is made by clevo the jfl92 is made by compal so its a different manufacture for that system

 

Get the xi-fi, it's so much better than anything else. You won`t regret it, and it also boosts performance a bit.

 

Did you ever do that review?

I went ahead and bought a x-fi expresscard, it should arrive tomorrow or the next day, everything I've read about it says it works great with vista and sounds awesome so I'm quite excited!

 

Darn man, I almost did, but the speakers I use at the place where I live are dead, and won`t be able to let you guys know much of a big deal.

The headphones however are pretty good.
I`d go about it like this.
-onboard sound with headphones : 6/10
-USB creative sound with headphones: 7.5/10
-xi-fi creative sound with headphones: 9.5/10

I`ll buy a pair of speakers soon and will do that review too.

 

Wow, so the expresscard is that much better than the usb, eh? Glad I went with it then

I got the (stupidly separate) 5.1/7.1 connector as well for my logitech x-540 speakers. Hopefully I'll have surround sound again after about 6 months of 'virtual matrix' due to my headphone jack dying and only being able to use the front speaker inputs :/

 

Yep,it`s much better.
If the USB one had a good bass, imagine that the xi-fi boosts it without a compromise, no distorsion,loud volume etc.
I don`t count the USB one out though, it`s still much better than the onboard one.

 

from what I see on amazon, its a 70 something deal. Not sure what seventy something bucks is to you guys, buts its quite a load to me. I think I'll leave it till my jack actually dies. btw, does the card come with input jack too?

 

Here you go.
The overhang is the thicker part,so it`s not much.

 

Ok, so I got my card today (just ordered it last thursday, with holiday and everything; so much for july 15th delivery date haha).

All I can say is, woah.

I still have to wait for the 5.1 adapter to show up, but in the meantime, even with the headphones, woah.

Two thumbs up! Now I just gotta make sure I don't break the end of the expresscard off on accident...

 

how much and where did you get it?

 

Yay! I just ordered my X-Fi and Overnighted it so I'll get it the day after tomorrow.

I'm using an NP5790 and my Headphone jack is broken as well. It doesn't work with speakers or anything so I use one of the other jacks; They're not as good quality and don't get as loud.

As for where I got mine,
http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/Creative_Sound_Blaster_X_Fi_Xtreme_Audio_Notebook/70SB071000000/N07287/. I wish i could have gotten it off Creative's website but they were all sold out so I just got it off this website. =/

If that link doesn't work go to www.costcentral.com and in the search bar (top right hand corner) type in: 70SB071000000

That should take you straight to it

 

I told you guys, the cars is awesome. It should come default with such a powerful laptop,I`m surprised nobody is offering it for free.

 

I just got mine through an Amazon reseller, bundled with the 5.1/7.1 connector:

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Expr...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1215496176&sr=1-1

The card itself came from ANTonline; they could have packed it a little better (they put it in one of those manila folders with bubbles in them thingies) and the box was a little squished but everything was ok so *shrugs*.

The connect was sent directly from amazon. I should get that (hopefully) tomorrow!

 

dang, its still 70 something bucks. Isn't this the same creative that shut down this nice programmer trying to write drivers for vista for them?