My computer has two headphone jacks - one on the front and one on the back (for the speakers). Recently, the front one has started to garble sounds (if you put your head underwater and listen to sounds - that’s what it’s like), so I plug the headphones into the speaker port at the back - the damn thing snapped off in the port! I’ve tried to fish the errant headphone bit out of the jack but it’s lodged in there.
Here’s the question - what the smeg can I do about this?
My computer is an eMachines 570, if that helps.
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If you open up the box, you should see the connection. It should then be a simple matter to connect up a new headphone jack and run it to the outside of the box, using parts from any electronics store.
Would I need to solder on a new jack? Could be tricky - seeing as I haven’t got a soldering iron.
:o
You might, if you are lucky, be able to open up the computer, look at the heaphone jack and see if it’s just a snap-together jack housing. Some of them are assembled in such a way that the top can be popped off with the careful use of a small screwdriver. Do this with the computer off and wearing a grounding strap, obviously.
Or, possibly, put a tiny drop of superglue on the broken off headphone jack, stick it in and try to pull the errant bit out that way. But that runs the risk of gluing the headphones to the computer.
Worse comes to worse, get a new soundcard.
So buy a soldering iron if you need to. They’re cheap enough.
Cheaper than a computer or a new sound card.
Round here they’re about 20 bucks, for a cheap one that should do the job. That’d be about 13 pounds there.