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Laptop power connector broke

  • 19-05-2007 2:50am
    #1
    sound_wave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭


    Went over to the girlfriends house tonight to find that her laptop power connector was broke, dunno how it happened but it seems like someone ( her little brothers) either tripped over the power lead and snapped the power pin out of the connector (O) is now ( ). I didnt realise this until i looked at the power lead and there was the pin sticking out of the connector. Now if I hold the power lead in the connector with the pin in the lead it will begin to charge so things are looking good so far.

    Its a HP Compaq nxXXXX and out of warantee so I was thinking I would have a lash off repairing it before she hands it over to someone else, and save a few bob. Before I opened the lappy up I said I would consult your good selves about the chances of getting this fixed as a DIY job, would it be tough and where could I source another power connector?

    Thanks lads


Comments

  • #2
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Happened me a few weeks ago. Not good news Im afraid.

    Had to send it back to the people who made the laptop, not where it was bought. Cost €200 to repair, but they said that was lucky because usually theres a connection between the pin and the mother board, and 99% of the time they have to replace the motherboard aswell which altogether would have set me back the best part of €600. Not a DIY job Im afraid.


  • #3
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Its going to be a pain in the ass job to change that pin....have seen plenty of them before and trying to repair them is a real nightmare....getting to the pin itself requires you to disassemble the laptop to allow workable access to the connector for the power input. Generally maplin stock generic power connectors that you could desolder from the motherboard and solder in the new power connector.
    Its a very very very time consuming and finicky job...not simple...and generally as stated above is quite costly.


  • #4
    sound_wave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭sound_wave


    Hmmmm... thats what I didn't want to hear. Sounds like it will be a tricky one alright. Hopefully its not as bad as what happened to Archimedes laptop. I'll have a google around for a guide or something like that and read up on it a bit. Thanks for the replies lads.


  • #5
    sound_wave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭sound_wave


    Just an update on this:

    HP provide a very nice webpage here, with tutorials of laptop assembly and disassembly, I now have the lappy disassembled and I am in search for a new power connector, now to put my soldering skills to the test :D


  • #6
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    connector is proprietary and I doubt Hp will sell you one.

    whip out the motherboard socket, solder in 3-4 wires as per contacts on connector

    goto maplin or peats and buy a DC socket and plug that mate

    pass the wires out throught the chassis hole, bit of heatshrink over the wires and attach ends to socket

    chop off orig hp plug and solder new plug

    Thats what we do in work!


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