Is there any hope for my laptop.....??

blue_monkey_2

I've got a problem with my laptop. Where the power lead goes in at the back there is clearly something loose so I plug it in but the power goes on and off sometimes every second and it is switching from power to battery, hence the screan dimming. If I pull the lead and secure it then I can get it charged but I then have to unplug it til it has run out of power as the lead gets really hot. i let it run out and plug it back in again and so on, but it is an older model, I probably get half an hour from it before it has run out...... but if I have the power lead in when I am working on then the screen flashes where it is going on and off and it drives me nuts.

If you know what I mean.

So, can something like this be fixed or is it doomed and should I be looking for something else?? I have it on all day and at the moment am working on it all day - that is 4 hours in the evening and then 6 hours during the day - sometimes more. I need the laptop because of work so I can't really send it away to be fixed as no laptop means I cannot deal with the business stuff that comes through which means I cannot process orders, plus I have a website so I do need it at the moment.

I thought it was the powerpack so went out and bought another. It wasn't Doh!! £35 down the drain!! Any ideas, please.

gpkwells

Sounds like repair or new lapop are your only options!

Is there no shops that do pepairs while you wait near you? I think PC world do it but they won't be cheap.

Hope you get it sorted.

gpkwells

that was of course repairs!!!!!!!!!

totalsolutions

Hi If you knew what you are doing it's a straight forward soldering job to the power socket in the laptop, very easy to do, but I guess you would have done it yourself by now if you could. Its a few screws to remove and get down to the motherboard and remove that. Try to find someone locally a tv repair place if they are still around.....If you are in S/London drop in.

blue_monkey_2

Ah well. I've mentioned this to my hubby but think we might go for a new option as I have sold a few bits this week. This is a slow system for what it is I guess and we do know that the Hard Drive is already on it's way out a few months ago it totally dies. It whirrs a lot and everything so I guess that the inevitable is coming and with having all my accounting programs and everything on it as well then it is not something I can put off any longer.

Thanks for your help, guess it is time to start looking.

blue_monkey_2

totalsolutions wrote: »

Hi If you knew what you are doing it's a straight forward soldering job to the power socket in the laptop, very easy to do, but I guess you would have done it yourself by now if you could. Its a few screws to remove and get down to the motherboard and remove that. Try to find someone locally a tv repair place if they are still around.....If you are in S/London drop in.

Thanks for that, no S. London unfortunately. As I said above, there are other issues with it so time to start looking around. Cheers.