HomeHere 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).
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
May 9th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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