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You have an Acer Aspire 5000 series laptop. The power port (DC jack) inside the laptop got broken and of course the laptop is out of warranty. What can you do? You can take it to a repair shop and pay tons of money OR fix the laptop yourself.
Thanks to Charles for his Acer Aspire 5000 disassembly instructions. The power connector is soldered to the motherboard and in order to replace the connector you’ll have to take the whole laptop apart and remove the motherboard. If you feel uncomfortable taking the laptop apart, do not even try it. You can damage the laptop.
In short, you’ll have to go through three easy steps 
1. Disassemble the laptop.
2. Resolder or replace the power connector AKA power jack.
3. Assemble the laptop back together.
You can use these power jack repair techniques.
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November 17th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
My acer laptop cooling fan making noise and can you fix. how can i make the noise stop.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Linda Deans,
If the fan started making noise, I guess it’s time to replace the fan.
On some Acer laptops the cooling fan could be accessed from the bottom.
Take a look at the Acer Aspire 5100 disassembly guide for example. The cooling fan is removed in the step 5.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:35 am
I have a acer aspire 5610 and it fall so its not displaying anything and the fan turns a little when yu switch it on can somebody help me with a new motherboard or a solution of what it could be becoz the charger is charging the on light is on and it does not display and the fan rotates on the instant of switching it on
April 19th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Iangton Machoko,
First of all, check the memory modules. It’s likely that when you dropped the laptop, the memory module got dislocated and now it’s not making a good contact with the motherboard.
Reseating the memory module might fix the problem.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I have a Acer Aspire 3680 that the dc jack has gone out on, twice, the first was under warranty, of course now it is not. The tech told me I could buy one from them for almost a hundred bucks but I find them all over the net for less than 10 bucks. The tech also told me that it is not soldered in, it clips in. Do I still have have to take apart most of the computer to get to that part or is there a way to replace just that part?
December 9th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Randy,
There is no easy way to replace the jack. The whole laptop has to be disassembled.
Here are instructions for taking apart an Acer Aspire 3620 laptop.
I think this model is similar to Acer Asprire 3680. Read the guide and decide if you can handle the power jack replacement yourself.
By the way, here’s another guide for removing and replacing laptop power jack.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Recently moves stuff around on my site, Feel free to update the link to the new one.
http://www.specis.me.uk/2007/11/03/laptop-repair-acer-aspire-5000
March 12th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Charles McCrimmon,
Thanks. I updated the link.
June 29th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Hi i have a acer 5610 would i be able to use a screen from the acer 5100??? i found a non working acer 5100 for 20$ just wondering if they are compatible i know they are both 15.4″
Finally the grey one is an Acer aspire 5100 for parts, powers on, does nothing
Good battery, LCD, 2GB RAM, brand new keyboard, Webcam
Motherboard is no good, attempted a solder job, failed miserably
That is the add i found.
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:57 am
I opened my laptop and put the power port back in place, but the computer still doesn’t charge. I’m running on my last bit of battery life now. I’m thinking maybe the power cord is damaged but I’m not sure. This is a bad time for me cus I’m supposed to be working on a Comic.
Any suggestions?