Microphone socket for headphones?

[Passacaglia]

I leave some earphones plugged into my computer at work every night, and it hasn't been a problem for several months. But recently, the people who clean the office here decided to get too aggressive, and vacuumed right over the earphones, splitting them in two. They know they did it, too, since they just tossed the other half of them on my desk. Great. Anyway, I pulled out the half that was still in the computer, and a little bit stayed in, and there's not enough sticking out for me to remove it. Is there a way I can use the microphone socket instead?

[MikeVic]

Better than your cleaning people stealing your headphones.

[Hurst2112]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

I leave some earphones plugged into my computer at work every night, and it hasn't been a problem for several months. But recently, the people who clean the office here decided to get too aggressive, and vacuumed right over the earphones, splitting them in two. They know they did it, too, since they just tossed the other half of them on my desk. Great. Anyway, I pulled out the half that was still in the computer, and a little bit stayed in, and there's not enough sticking out for me to remove it. Is there a way I can use the microphone socket instead?

your headphones would actually turn into microphone(s) if you did that.

You'd have to crack the computer open and try getting the jack out of the headphone hole. Or, are there any speaker ports in back?

[Passacaglia]

There's a DC 12V port in the back of the monitor -- is that a speaker port?

[Hurst2112]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

There's a DC 12V port in the back of the monitor -- is that a speaker port?

no.

I thought maybe there was an 1/8" jack in the back of the computer that would be for speakers. Some computers have headphone jack in the front and essentially the same jack in the back for speakers.

[Passacaglia]

Oh -- heh, that's what I was using already. But now that I look, there is a headphone jack in the front!

[Passacaglia]

So now I'm a happy camper. At first, it seemed like plugging the headphones in there made the speakers work, but that was just because the volume was turned up really loud -- good thing I didn't have them in my ear!