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Broke my headphone jack

  • 08-06-2012 3:24am
    #1
    Rich11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    Anyhow, droped my laptop, earlier today:(, still working but the headphone jack is broken, fell onto the headphone jack, and all the plastic that holds the jack in is all gone
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    Anyways, just wondering is there anyway of swapping the headphone jack and line in jack? Already tried it with the realtek software but no joy, so i was thinking if i took the back off the laptop maybe i could swap the wires, i dunno, i have a souldering iron somewhere in the shed so that wouldnt be a problem.

    Thanks in advance:D


Comments

  • #2
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,816 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Not much of a getto fix you can do on that, if you only need it for headphones get a bluetooth adapter if your laptop doesn't already have bluetooth and a set of bluetooth headphones.


  • #3
    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    You could get a cheap USB audio adapter like this until you could get the motherboard replaced.


  • #4
    Rich11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭Rich11


    EarthlyPangaea wrote: »
    You could get a cheap USB audio adapter like this until you could get the motherboard replaced.

    never even heard of them, thanks, anywhere u can get them here


  • #5
    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    Rich11 wrote: »
    never even heard of them, thanks, anywhere u can get them here

    You can get them in computer shops , I think I saw some in Click the other day. If you can wait for a few days there are Irish sellers that sell the exact same product on eBay as well, just search for them.


  • #6
    Rich11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭Rich11


    EarthlyPangaea wrote: »
    You could get a cheap USB audio adapter like this until you could get the motherboard replaced.
    EarthlyPangaea wrote: »
    You can get them in computer shops , I think I saw some in Click the other day. If you can wait for a few days there are Irish sellers that sell the exact same product on eBay as well, just search for them.

    Thanks, got it from ebay today, and it works great, and also its a better sound aswell:)


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