So the headphone jack on my laptop broke off the other day, and now my system has no sound. I took the bastard apart completely (had to remove all but 5 screws) and imagine my surprise when I found 5 seperate pins inside instead of 3!
Not to be discouraged, I pressed on and soldered a new headphone jack to what I thought were the signal pins, and put the whole mess back together.
Still no sound, but I did get PC speaker beeps through the headphones. So i took it completely apart again and rewired. now I have no sound. So I have to take it apart again. Can anyone enlighten me as to how the heck to wire this thing properly? I'm about to just wire an ethernet cable to the mobo, and then try combinations until I hear something.
This is an old pentium 3 compaq laptop.