Desktops forum: Headphone Jack Broke off !!!

The problem here is one of repair skill. There's no easy potato based solution but any competent technician with solder skills may solder a wire to what's exposed of the broken tip and pull it out. Or find another dead motherboard and transfer from that to the good board. Or use just the right miniature needle nose pliers to pull it out.

Your plight is not unknown, but just a side effect of repair costs vs. replacement costs.

Bob

After 7 years, let's close this discussion.

The problem is that just the TIP of the jack was broken- and there uis nothing to grasp on to with any plier/tweezers if I could find any small enough.
I said half earlier, when actuall it is more like 1/3 or 2/5....

Sorry to misunderstand. It sounds as if you might mean the "plug" and not the jack. Did I get it right this time? If so, can you get to it by opening the case and finding the tip of the plug from the MB component side? There may be some metal shielding that needs to be worked around so it might mean removing the board. Again, reasonable care should be sufficient. Good luck.

I used a fairly large safety pin. I found that the broken off stub consisted of three layers: an outer brass sheath, a plastic layer, and an interior brass layer. By carefully (maybe not so carefully in retrospect) working the tip of the pin into the plastic layer, I was able to gain a purchase on the thing as I pushed toward the outside brass layer. I pushed and kind of pulled at the same time...I guess you could say I pried it out. I was amazed that it worked,but who am I to question success.
Good Luck

So sorry ours did too, I tried everything listed and it doesn't work.

We just purchased a new Dell xps 8300, the headphone
jack broke inside and the speakers do not work. It was like that
with our old Dell also. I wish companies would stop designing things that way.