I found that a cheap dock off of eBay fixed this problem, as it supplies power.
:-) mark PS-Has anyone else here rebuilt thinkpad batteries? I have a 9-cell from my T61 that just died that I'm thinking of rebuilding. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:03 AM, David Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > The one thing which was >> not as easily fixable was the DC power jack, which required almost a >> complete >> disassembly of the unit. >> > > I did this on my son's T42. Really trivial design changes would have made > it possible to replace the jack around halfway through the disassembly, > instead of it being just about the last part out of the case. I was > tempted, when reassembling, to use my dremel and some sugru to create these > changes myself, in case I ever had the problem again. > > > the time to do it myself. As a bonus, there was a nice Cajun restaurant >> next >> door, so I dropped it off and picked it up on my lunch hour. ;) >> > > If the service guy managed it in an hour then I am very impressed. > > David > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
