Laptop charging problem

dixie_dean_2

Hi

When I try to charge my laptop or use mains power the lead won't stay properley connected. It is fully in but it keeps switching from mains to battery power and now it won't even charge at all. I've got 11 minutes of power left to find an answer! Urgent help needed! Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Browntoa

sounds like the power connector may have come away from the motherboard

cost up to £100 to fixe

http://www.laptoprepair.co.uk/how-to-repair-laptop-power.htm

albertross_2

or get hold of a soldering iron, and a set of screwdrivers.

dixie_dean_2

One of my mates who know his sh*t, as we say in the hood, reckons he can fix it but he no longer has a micro soldering iron. What's he on about? Will a normal one with a fine tip (or whatever the terminology is) work?

Cheers.

albertross_2

Assuming it is a solder problem (it may not be), any soldering iron will work, it's just a bit harder if your tip is 50 times the size of the solder blob.