From: "jb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 1:47 PM
just the mobo, I got a spark off the DC jack. So, I want to get the jack
off the mobo, buy a new one, and put it on. The only problem is that I've
never soldered a circuitboard before and I need some help.
Most laptop motherboards use multi-layer PCB. If you're lucky, there's
nothing like that around the power connector, but you may end up putting a
lot of work into it for nothing. Additionally, something on the motherboard
is probably fried, you could try just connecting wires from a power source
to the motherboard directly before finding a replacement jack and going
through the soldering work.
And uhhh, sorry, I can't help but good luck, sounds fun. I once tried
tracing a hdd power supply problem in a laptop, unfortunately all the lines
were inside the PCB, nothing I could do. I ended up finding a similar
voltage source and soldering my own wire from there to the hdd -forget about
power managment after that one.
Matt W.
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