After 2 days of screwing and unscrewing i finally took apart the laptop (HP NX 9110) to get a broken headphone needle out. The computer store was asking 30Euro to fix it but why pay when you can do it yourself. I also cleaned out the heat sinks and fans since they had 8 years of dust on them . I can't figure out why HP put SO MANY screws in the laptop, it took me hours to figure out where the next screw was, some of them were hidden under the CD drive and floppy bay and one was in the PCMCIA slots! Also, once i had fixed the audio jack it took me another couple of hours to replace the screws because i had forgotten where they went. Its just amazing how much a broken headphone needle can cause!

Here are some pictures i took after i fixed it.
Screw locations
Red: Screw
Green: Screw (Hidden 1 level down)
Pink: Screw (Hidden 2 levels down)
Blue: Screw (Must take out CD and floppy bay drive before taking this out)

Laptop (Normal)

Laptop (Flipped)

Everything mentioned above was done to get this thing out

Wow, I admire your patience! I had a hard time with finding all the screws to take apart my prizm... and there were only about 12

Good work - did you try pulling the tip out via the jack first? Trying to push the retaining spring out of the way so it drops it is a fiddly process so despite the number of screws you needed to remove your method may have been faster in the end.

No, didn't try that but it was jammed real tight in there since my mum tried putting her headphones in, causing it to go in even tighter.

Good lord, that's an absolutely ridiculous number of screws. Who the hell designed that thing and why? (Actually, I don't think I want to know the “why”.)

I guess HP didn't want you to open it

Yeah, but if they really didn't want you to open it they could have just used some oddball type screws that almost nobody has a driver for.

^^ fix for that, a bic pen and a lighter. Works wonders.