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New Bad power jack -
You may not care to resurrect, of course.

On a random pass a year+ back, I saw a guy on eBay doing refurbs of just that + some other connectors commonly tugged on. A certain guarantee.. was the point. (We all know about the vicissitudes of multi-layer boards, the special de- and resoldering techniques. Which sometimes don't work.)

He may have been talking $40. Likely others out there, of course ; haven't looked.
It's always seemed bizarre to trash a whole mobo for one trivial spot -- without at least, a try.
(Have you looked to see if it's just a visible cracked solder joint at the jack? Sometimes the hefty items don't get heated enough in one pass through the wave-soldering bath, and a hot-enough iron, quickly applied can produce that shiny fillet.)


Luck

Expand Edited by Ashton Aug. 29, 2007, 06:31:30 PM EDT
New Thanks! I suspect you're right on.
I haven't totally given up on the laptop. As you can imagine, components are densely packed inside, so it's tough to get to anything. The laptop does have a parallel port and my wife had in mind to use it to operate her "quilting robot".
Alex

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