Re: HP Pavilion Laptop Owners with Bad Power Jacks....


stocks29 wrote:
> For anyone who is interested in trying this themselves, I had great
> luck doing mine. Here is what I did.
>
> 1. Went to radioshack and picked up a soldering iron and the smallest
> solder I could find.
>
> 2. Took apart my laptop so I could see the dc power jack.
>
> 3. Touched the soldering iron to the lower metal piece of the dc power
> jack and place the solder at the contact point of the jack and
> motherboard.
>
> BE VERY CAREFUL THAT YOU TOUCH NOTHING BUT THE METAL PIECE OF THE JACK
> AS YOU MAY MELT SOMETHING.
>
> 4. Put the laptop back together.
>
>
> It works as if it were new. Good luck! The materials only cost me
> $13 and it took about 5-10 minutes. Even if it breaks again, I can
> repair it over and over and not have to spend any more money.

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