Remapping Sound I/O ports on HP laptop

[redshadow]

Hi everyone. I would like to know if the following is possible and if so, with what means.

I have an HP zt1260 laptop, 1.6GHz P4 with an 845 mobile chipset. The sound chip is an Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller. My problem is that the headphone jack is damaged (the outer ring of the jack holding the contacts broke, I have the contacts inside, but without the outer ring, I can't get stable sound, I tried gluing the ring back, but its not a reliable fix). This machine has a sound OUT and a sound IN ports right next to each other, and I was wondering if there was a software switch somewhere in the registry or drivers that I could flip so that the ports designation would be reversed and I wouldn't have to make any hardware modifications.

Any help would be appreciated.

regards,
Redshadow

 

[Lynx516]

1) Wrong Forum This is not a Highly Technical issue. I usually dont like saying that but I am getting annoyed with it

2) Very Very unlikly without doing alot of detail an dprobably re writing the drivers. WHy dont you try do solering on of the other ports and soldering it to the position of the Headphone socket.

 

[Peter]

Hardly. Those audio codecs usually do have left/right swap for input lines, and connector remapping for either inputs or multichannel outputs. But I've never seen connector swap features - what for, normally? For when the mainboard designers have screwed up?