Tools You Need
- Replacement Power Jack,
- Soldering iron and solder
- Desolder Pump
Now onward!
Attach Electrostatic Strap To Your Wrist
Attach an electrostatic strap
to your wrist to avoid static electricity damaging your laptop. Then connect the other end to a piece of metal.Now disassemble your laptop by removing the battery and power chord. After disassembling your laptop, lay it face down and remove any covers from the bottom of the laptop.
Remove Hard Drive
Next remove the hard drive, optical drive, and memory sticks from your laptop. The hard drive is located towards the front of the laptop. Next, remove all screws holding the hard drive and then slide it to one side to disconnect from to the motherboard. The optical drive is held by one screw, Having made that discovery, remove the screw and slide the drive out of the laptop. Finally the memory sticks are held by two clips... With that in mind, spread the clips apart to cause the memory sticks to pop up. Grab them by the edges and slide them out of the holding area.
Remove any other screws holding the bottom of the laptop. Pu them aside , and for those of you with memory problems, document them so you can replace them later.
Turn The Laptop's Right Side Up
Turn the laptop's right side up and pry the keyboard bezel along the top of the keyboard. Once removed, proceed to remove the keyboard itself. The keyboard is connected to the motherboard by a data cable. Then remove the screws holding the keyboard and disconnect the data cable to remove the keyboard. Now disconnect and the display panel, and remove any screws connecting the display panel to the laptop base.Remove any screws located along the top cover of your laptop.,and then carefully pry the cover and remove the it from the base. Next remove any screws connecting the motherboard to the laptop base and any other components connected to the motherboard including the wireless adapter. After that, remove the motherboard from the laptop base.
Locate Power Jack
Locate the power jack which should be on the back corner of the motherboard, and heat up your soldering iron at this point. Now use your soldering iron to heat the solder holding the power jack and use the desolder pump to remove it as it melts. Dont press too much on the solder or you damage the motherboard. Next remove the old power jack. Now place fresh solder around the inputs of the motherboard for the power jack and slide the new power jack in place.(Purchase soldering toolkit at Amazon.com)Finally reassemble your laptop and reconnect the power cable. After reassembling your laptop, your new power jack should be raring to go. (Purchase new power jack at Amazon.com
)
Attach Electrostatic Strap To Your Wrist
Attach an electrostatic strap
to your wrist to avoid static electricity damaging your laptop. Then connect the other end to a piece of metal.Now disassemble your laptop by removing the battery and power chord. After disassembling your laptop, lay it face down and remove any covers from the bottom of the laptop.Remove Hard Drive
Next remove the hard drive, optical drive, and memory sticks from your laptop. The hard drive is located towards the front of the laptop. Next, remove all screws holding the hard drive and then slide it to one side to disconnect from to the motherboard. The optical drive is held by one screw, Having made that discovery, remove the screw and slide the drive out of the laptop. Finally the memory sticks are held by two clips... With that in mind, spread the clips apart to cause the memory sticks to pop up. Grab them by the edges and slide them out of the holding area.
Remove any other screws holding the bottom of the laptop. Pu them aside , and for those of you with memory problems, document them so you can replace them later.
Turn The Laptop's Right Side Up
Turn the laptop's right side up and pry the keyboard bezel along the top of the keyboard. Once removed, proceed to remove the keyboard itself. The keyboard is connected to the motherboard by a data cable. Then remove the screws holding the keyboard and disconnect the data cable to remove the keyboard. Now disconnect and the display panel, and remove any screws connecting the display panel to the laptop base.Remove any screws located along the top cover of your laptop.,and then carefully pry the cover and remove the it from the base. Next remove any screws connecting the motherboard to the laptop base and any other components connected to the motherboard including the wireless adapter. After that, remove the motherboard from the laptop base.
Locate Power Jack
Locate the power jack which should be on the back corner of the motherboard, and heat up your soldering iron at this point. Now use your soldering iron to heat the solder holding the power jack and use the desolder pump to remove it as it melts. Dont press too much on the solder or you damage the motherboard. Next remove the old power jack. Now place fresh solder around the inputs of the motherboard for the power jack and slide the new power jack in place.(Purchase soldering toolkit at Amazon.com)Finally reassemble your laptop and reconnect the power cable. After reassembling your laptop, your new power jack should be raring to go. (Purchase new power jack at Amazon.com
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That's a wrap for "Fixing Your Laptop's Broken Power Jack". Hope this tutorial helps as you try to fix your power jack. Till next time, cheers!
Till then take care
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