Richard Reynolds wrote:
It appears this laptop's USB jacks don't output power sometimes.
OK
They weren't making the light on my optical mouse turn on.
It appears to work *sometimes*.
However that can be a power issue or a data issue.... I donno do you
have one of those geeky fans or lights or messagers or ..... something
that doesnt use data just power? how about a voltage meter that you can
play with???
Anyway to fix or replace USB jacks easily on a IBM Thinkpad laptop?
If its truely a power issue its a quick fix something that can be done
in well under an hour. even if the connector needs replacing it shouldnt
take more.
How do you figure? It's a laptop, not a desktop. Not exactly a
Get-out-the-screwdriver-and-replace-a-card type of repair. Once one gets
the thing apart enough to get to the suspect connector (if that's really
what's wrong), de-soldering the bad part and replacing it with a new one
(you _do_ have a spare lying around that just happens to fix that brand,
model, and vintage laptop, don't you?), you've already spent the better
part of several hours - given you've done it before. On this specific
brand, model, and vintage laptop.
And I didn't even count time spent in diagnosis.
Or maybe I'm completely misunderstanding the problem.
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