Broke my headphone jack..any hope of a repair?

[computerpro3]

Well due to me being a complete idiot, I tripped over a mini to rca cable whine my thinkpad was hooked up to my Marantz receiver. The plug bent inside of the headphone jack and apparently broke it - the headphone jack is now so loose that it won't grip headphones and when anything is plugged in there is a buzzing sound like an internal short or ground loop.

How much would this cost to have Lenovo fix it out of warranty? Does anyone have any experience with something similar?

[rkawakami]

Most likely the "repair" would be to replace the entire motherboard. This assumes that the headphone jack is mounted on that board and not a daughter or auxiliary board. It's easier to simply replace the entire board than it is to go through the trouble of unsoldering/soldering a new jack.

[istudio]

If you have friends fine with soldering, just ask them to replace that for you, it shouldn't be a hard job.

[rkawakami]

"Hard" is a matter of perspective. If you're lucky enough to have a system which uses through-hole leads on the headphone jack, then yes, it might be a fairly easy soldering job once you use a solder sucker to remove the existing solder and lift out the broken jack. If, however, the jack is of a surface-mount type, then it may not be too easy to get a soldering iron down on the leads. Another possible obstacle is if the headphone jack is part of an array of jacks. I'm not sure of the arrangement on a T6x system as I don't have one. You may have a hard time locating a suitable replacement; other than poaching one off another T6x motherboard.