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Optical cable housing broken

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How am I supposed to fix this?

I have a Msi z790 tomahawk Wi-Fi. 

And I broke the housing to hold my optical cable 

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1 minute ago, Jakey1233 said:

How am I supposed to fix this?

I have a Msi z790 tomahawk Wi-Fi. 

And I broke the housing to hold my optical cable 

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I’ve got the same problem.  I just went analog.  A work around rather than a solution.  Wasted a cable.  Curious to see if someone has a fix though.

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Maybe you could superglue those 2 pieces back together and shove them into the port?

 

You might also just plug the cable in and find a way to keep it from falling out.

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Likely not very fixable. You could probably try putting it around the cable end and seeing if it just slots right back in there but it'll likely just fall out easily as the housing is what holds the cable in place.

 

I would just change over to the analog plugs or switching to a sound card or a USB DAC if you must stay with optical.

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Trying to glue it back in would be the best bet. You could also try sticky tack. It doesn’t hurt to try, it’s already broken.

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37 minutes ago, dilpickle said:

Maybe you could superglue those 2 pieces back together and shove them into the port?

 

You might also just plug the cable in and find a way to keep it from falling out.

The problem is superglue has fumes which are actually tiny droplets and optical has little sense of humor about that sort of thing.

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17 minutes ago, Whatisthis said:

Trying to glue it back in would be the best bet. You could also try sticky tack. It doesn’t hurt to try, it’s already broken.

Point.

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You could try taping the cable in place, as long as you can see the red light on the other end of the cable it will probably work fine.

 

If that and other solutions in the thread don't work out USB optical dongles are pretty cheap.

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I would try removing the motherboard from the case and then attempting to glue the connector pieces back together.

You want to use as little glue as possible, ideally CA glue.
otherwise, you would have to buy an external dac

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3 hours ago, BobVonBob said:

You could try taping the cable in place, as long as you can see the red light on the other end of the cable it will probably work fine.

 

If that and other solutions in the thread don't work out USB optical dongles are pretty cheap.

Hmmm… I hadn’t thought of that.  I did buy a really long SPDIF cable that I sleeved and everything.  Might be worthwhile.  If the spdif usb connectors aren’t expensive it’s less bother than pulling the motherboard.  Best work around yet for me anyway.

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Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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