The headphone jack spring become loose and does not secure the headphone plug well
I have a problem related to ‘jack’ problem, not power, but the audio jack. The headphone jack spring become loose and doesn’t secure the headphone plug well, it’s quite annoying cause when I connect to speaker it’ll generate noise when the plug is being touched…
I think the easiest way to do is to take a screw driver or something to adjust the spring and make it a tight fit as like it was new. If not, it has to be replaced I think, but it’s sure going to cost me a lot, either money (replace motherboard) or trouble (self repair)…
I think you have one more option. You can purchase a PCMCIA audio card and use the headphone jack on the card. Here’s an example, Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS notebook PCMCIA card. These cards are not cheap, but it would be less expensive then replacing the laptop motherboard.
January 18th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Thanks for your suggestion, it’ll be better than the internal soundcard for sure, it’s just that I’ll be bringing the laptop everywhere so size does matter. By the way, following your suggestion I found some soundcard that’s just the size of a PCMCIA card, maybe that’ll do the job for me.
Thanks again!
January 29th, 2007 at 9:29 am
We have an A75 that is in for the power jack replacement under warranty. They say that Toshiba has a new motherboard replacement that has the power jack glued down. What does this have to do with sound? We had the motherboard replaced about a year ago for the power jack problem and after it came back the sound sometimes did not work. It always works after a complete power down and power on. Then after using it for awhile it stops working. I have disabled the sound and re-enabled and that doesn’t work. Restart fails to fix it but a complete power down does. Any ideas on this? Maybe after this last motherboard replacement to fix the power jack the sound will work and stay working. Could a certain program cause this to happen? Also any ideas on if the motherboard is replaced how will XP react to a new motherboard. Will the hard drive startup just like before or will some new chip set cause problems. We have a lot of programs installed and for the most part it runs great.
January 29th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
William Patterson,
Toshiba reinforces the connection by applying some kind of glue (probably epoxy) around the power jack (not much help by the way) and it has nothing to do with the sound. I think you just got defective system board last time. I hope this time you’ll get a good one. Replacing the motherboard shouldn’t affect Windows XP in any way because Toshiba will install exactly the same system board and Windows “will not see” any difference. Be very careful with the power jack because it might fail again.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hi
I had a problem with the sound not working on my Toshiba Tecra A3. I took it to my pc repairer who d’loaded new sound drive from Toshiba, but after he tested it & d’loaded another couple of drivers, he has decided that it is to do with something on the motherboard. It’s just fortunate that I purchased the extended warranty with it – AGAIN. This laptop is only 14 months old!
I will NEVER buy another TOSHIBA. This is my 2nd & it’s just as bad as the first one! After 2.5 years, I got so fed up wiht it being repaired, that I bought a new machine. I didn’t order a Toshiba because of ALL THE PROBLEMS with my previous one, but the guy in the shop ordered it, instead of what I wanted, and stalled for so long, that by the time ‘something’ arrived, I was desperate, so bought this one. NEVER BUY TOSHIBA! They only last just long enough to be out of warranty, then they fall to bits! I am not hard on any equipment, but I have had nothing but TROUBLE with TOSHIBA … & they wouldn’t even admit that there are certain inherant problems with certain models … I only found this out from the people who did the extended warranty repairs on my last one. A couple of problems were … the seal around the screen was ‘faulty’ & crashed in the corners, the hinges on the lid kept breaking & the point on the PS cable that goes into the back of the case kept ‘breaking’ at the position where the ‘plug’ was attached to the cable … breaking the wiring & no-oone couold fix it properly. I think it ended up doing some sort of damage inside the case & the repairers said that it wasn’t worth the labour costs to repair it.
GOOD LUCK to anyone who buys a TOSHIBA laptop, because you are going to need it!
Wendy M.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:05 pm
I’m having a problem with getting sound in my headphones on my acer laptop. I’ve checked all the usual things – headphones work in other devices, sound is not muted, etc. Sound works fine w/o earphones but when I plug in earphones, I get nothing. I just listened to sound in earphones this morning so not sure why it won’t work now…. Help?
Thanks.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:36 am
My internal speakers won’t work so I plugged in so external ones and they don’t work. What do I do?
March 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Hi everyone. Please let me know where to get driver for SDcard reader for Toshiba Tecra 9100. My sound card works well, but the system doesn’t see SD card and I beleive the issue is driver. Thanks
August 29th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Hello all, i am posting this comment because i have a problem and i didn’t find where i can post my problem.
i have a an MSI GX600 gaming notebook, and I have a problem with my Realtek Audio sound card. Whenever I plug the headphones into the audio jack, sound still comes out of the speakers. I still have audio in the headphones though, but I want the sound coming out of the speakers to stop. Anyone know fix this? I am running windows vista and the sound card driver is realtek HD audio manager. thanks for your help
September 6th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
well my laptop was working fine (toshiba) after i had to format it after i did it every time i plug my speakers or headset to listen to music or anything..i only hear it from my speakers on my laptop! plz help!??!
thnx
September 21st, 2008 at 6:49 pm
My laptop fell from my bed and it landed on the side where my earphones were plugged in. As a result the phone jack caved in completely, i managed to remove the earphones but i immediately noticed that all sound had gone. I tried to adjust the phone jack into its proper position but only managed to do so after opening my Dell Inspiron e1505. I thought the sound would be restored if i clicked the phone jack in its place but nothing happened. With that in mind will an external sound card work for me?