Worth Replacing The Motherboard.

Crazyad · 11th October 2007, 9:46 AM

Hey Guys,
I'll give ya the scope.

I brought the laptop i have off my Brother. Which is a Dell Inspiron 9300. Its fantastic but the only problem is when you put head phones into it, only the right channel plays. Then some times when take it out nothing comes out of the speakers. To fix it. I just play around with the out side of the headphone jack.

I rang Dell to see if they could fix it and they only told me that i had to replace the whole motherboard. They reackon it would roughly be about 600 bucks. So my question to you is. Is it worth getting fixed ??

Blowtus · 11th October 2007, 10:07 AM

You may like to try a usb soundcard, available for somewhere in the vicinity of $50.

bAbY_RoG3R · 11th October 2007, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blowtus

You may like to try a usb soundcard, available for somewhere in the vicinity of $50.

beaten ! thats what i was going to recommend. Theres a zalman one which does 5.1 aswell

HeXa · 11th October 2007, 10:20 AM

sounds like a busted jack

if you know what you are doing... you can resolder/replace the audio jack

otherwise, USB or PCX/PCMCIA sound card (forget what a 9300 has)

CyberstormL45 · 11th October 2007, 3:07 PM

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Lei · 11th October 2007, 3:23 PM

I wont pay $600 just to get the micphone fixed, you can easily buy a new laptop with reasonable performance for around $600, please check msy, they have a $699 acer laptop with 1y warranty.

SLATYE · 11th October 2007, 6:26 PM

If you really want to do it cheaply, and if you don't mind waiting a bit (probably about two weeks), you can get a generic USB soundcard for less than $5 here.

As has been mentioned, this is almost certainly just a busted headphone jack. If you're good with a soldering iron you could fix it easily - but I'd probably just stick with the USB soundcard for safety.

Crazyad · 22nd October 2007, 12:23 PM

OK guys well i got the dell manuals and we've full stripped the laptop.
I can't believe how many parts there are and i sorta feel like a bomb tech. Cause one bad move could mean.. bye bye.

We might have found the problem with a small gold plate that moves when you put the headphones in. So were probably going to move it a bit and see what happens...

Crazyad · 22nd October 2007, 12:41 PM

Well here is some more news.

We just found a small crack in the solder to the headphone port. See as you push the headphone jack in it moves the small gold part cross to join with the switch which inturn makes the speakers turn off.

So out comes the solder and we hope it fixes it......

11th October 2007, 9:46 AM	#1
Crazyad Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 3	Worth Replacing The Motherboard. Hey Guys, I'll give ya the scope. I brought the laptop i have off my Brother. Which is a Dell Inspiron 9300. Its fantastic but the only problem is when you put head phones into it, only the right channel plays. Then some times when take it out nothing comes out of the speakers. To fix it. I just play around with the out side of the headphone jack. I rang Dell to see if they could fix it and they only told me that i had to replace the whole motherboard. They reackon it would roughly be about 600 bucks. So my question to you is. Is it worth getting fixed ??

11th October 2007, 10:20 AM	#4
HeXa Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Canberra, ACT Posts: 4,816	sounds like a busted jack if you know what you are doing... you can resolder/replace the audio jack otherwise, USB or PCX/PCMCIA sound card (forget what a 9300 has) __________________ -=ShadowLight =- Australia's Largest FREE Lineage 2 Server run by ex-SuperFly/MDC/iiNet GMs WTS: [ACT] assorted Dell/IBM P3 rackmount servers - 6 pack of beer each WTB: [ACT] decent Socket 939 HSF (pickup)

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11th October 2007, 3:23 PM	#6
Lei Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,074	I wont pay $600 just to get the micphone fixed, you can easily buy a new laptop with reasonable performance for around $600, please check msy, they have a $699 acer laptop with 1y warranty. __________________

11th October 2007, 6:26 PM	#7
SLATYE SLATYE, not SLAYTE Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canberra Posts: 21,040	If you really want to do it cheaply, and if you don't mind waiting a bit (probably about two weeks), you can get a generic USB soundcard for less than $5 here. As has been mentioned, this is almost certainly just a busted headphone jack. If you're good with a soldering iron you could fix it easily - but I'd probably just stick with the USB soundcard for safety. __________________ Main system: Pentium-D 805 \| 1GB (2x 512MB) PQI DDR400 \| Gigabyte 8I865GMK-775 \| Xtreama Radeon 9800Pro with Zalman ZM-80HP-D \| 320GB WD SATA HDD \| Antec SmartPower 2.0 500w Laptop: Compal EL80 \| C2D T7200 \| 320GB Fujistu HDD \| 2GB DDR2-667 \| GF Go 7600

11th October 2007, 10:07 AM	#2
Blowtus Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Brisbane Posts: 539	You may like to try a usb soundcard, available for somewhere in the vicinity of $50.

22nd October 2007, 12:23 PM	#8
Crazyad Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 3	OK guys well i got the dell manuals and we've full stripped the laptop. I can't believe how many parts there are and i sorta feel like a bomb tech. Cause one bad move could mean.. bye bye. We might have found the problem with a small gold plate that moves when you put the headphones in. So were probably going to move it a bit and see what happens...

22nd October 2007, 12:41 PM	#9
Crazyad Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 3	Well here is some more news. We just found a small crack in the solder to the headphone port. See as you push the headphone jack in it moves the small gold part cross to join with the switch which inturn makes the speakers turn off. So out comes the solder and we hope it fixes it......