problem charging laptop

podcake

just to help a little more here, the socket will ( when not connected to the circuit board) look a little like this:



This one is a little exaggerated on what they most are ( hence why i chose the picture). you will have a pin much like the one in the middle and a metal contact on the side ( which is probably not as pronounced as this one). It most likely has become flattened

Its hard to describe but if you imagine the thing cut in half it looks like the top part of this picture (forgive the poor diagram):



sorry, i had uploaded it as a PNG, it is now a GIF and you should be able to see it *hopefully* OKAY, it didnt like GIF either, lets try JPEG

eventually it wears down and looks like the bottom half, this means it doesn't connect when you slot it in. -- hence the charging in a certain position ( where you pushed it into the contact)--

what you need to do ( temp fix really) is to bend that back up so it looks more like the first one again.

hope this helps a little

podcake

people, just copy and paste the image URL. its not working well atm!!

Wireless_2

In the long run you should really think about buying an electronics project, to build a simple piece of electronics kit, you'll need a decent soldering iron, and perhaps a desoldering device, and some patience, but you'll gain valuable practicable experience.

Replacing a power socket on a laptop motherboard will turn out to be a doddle, and with replacement parts usually a few pence, or a couple of pounds at most, you'll wonder why people part with £80 for so simple a task. Its a licence to print money.

Just replacing a swollen electrolytic capacitor on an LG LCD TV Power Board cost me all of 72p, plus a bit of solder, and 10 minutes to actually make the fix, it took twice as long just to take the TV apart and put it back together; yet when I asked the TV repair shop for a quote, they wanted the best part of £50 just to take a look, the repair would be extra, all plus 20% VAT.

Don't get ripped off, learn how to fix stuff yourself, but please take a course in electrical safety first, because even if the power has been off a while, the larger capacitors will still pack a wallop, maybe even enough to kill.