Laptop DC power jack repair techniques. Fix it yourself.

Here are three different laptop DC power jack repair techniques you can use to bring your laptop back to life.

1. The most common technique is resoldering the DC power jack back back on the motherboard. In this case your laptop will look exactly the same as before but the same problem with the power jack might happen again in the future.

2. Relocating the power jack outside the laptop case. After this repair the laptop will not look very sexy but this technique works. This repair should last for a while because you will not be stressing connection between the power jack and the motherboard anymore.

3. Replacing original factory DC power jack with a generic one. I like this one. The only problem is finding the power jack that fits your adapter and mounting it on the laptop case. If you can do that, this repair should last much longer the two previous techniques.
Here’s an example of replacing the power jack on a Toshiba Satellite A65 laptop with a generic jack purchased at RadioShack (Jack #274-1576).

 

 

Static electricity can kill your laptop. I recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap while working with internal parts of your laptop.

 

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4 Responses to “Laptop DC power jack repair techniques. Fix it yourself.”

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   How to fix Acer Aspier 5000 power port >> Inside my laptop Says:
   May 9th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

   [...] You can use these power jack repair techniques to fix your laptop. [...]

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   joe Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm

   was just wondering if anyone has the size specs of the acer tip. I have an older targus universal power supply and the tip from tagrus waa not an exact fit. It works at times but I want to just solder the correct tip on and be done with it. I have a local surplus store that has a ton of different sizes but would like to know thw specs

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   Bob Becker Says:
   June 5th, 2009 at 10:04 am

   Can I ask a question. I am trying to re-solder a dc jack in a dell latitude d600. I have to remove the old one first. I am using a weller 40 w soldering iron. it goes up to 900F. Yet it won’t melt the solder. I have tried put new solder over the joint and even used desoldering braid, but it will not loosen. Is my iron still not hot enough? Or, is it another problem. Thank you for your help. By the way your site is great, what a help for do it yourselfers.

   Bob Becker

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   Laptop Tech Says:
   June 6th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

   Bob Becker,

   I am trying to re-solder a dc jack in a dell latitude d600. I have to remove the old one first. I am using a weller 40 w soldering iron. it goes up to 900F. Yet it won’t melt the solder. I have tried put new solder over the joint and even used desoldering braid, but it will not loosen. Is my iron still not hot enough?

   I’m using Weller WES51 soldering workstation. It has tip temperature control range: 350°F to 850°F and for jack soldering job I set it to 850°F.

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