Tim Downie wrote:
Well, I've done it again. Bought a cheap laptop and now paying the
price.

Once again I've got problems with the DC power socket on a laptop.
Symptoms are of increasingly bad electrical contact (temporaily
restored by wiggling the plug) which has now reached the point of
total non-conductivity. I've checked the power supply lead and plug
carefully and it isn't a problem with either of them.

The last time this happened to me I was able to resolder the socket
on the motherboard but that doesn't look possible on this one.

By way of lateral thinking I got to wondering if it would be possible
to dismember the battery and lead power in through the battery
contacts from a suitable power supply (I'm not worried about running
off battery power). The slightly confusing thing is that the battery
has 7 electrical contacts so perhaps this idea is a non-starter.

Of course I could just send it off for repair but it's going to be a
new motherboard job and it probably needs a new battery too and and
the end of the day, it'll still be a fecking Packard Bell Easynote
laptop. spit

So, has anyone done this?

Tim

You mean get a duff battery and take the cells out and connect power supply
to the lappy this way?
Yes it is possible as an old pico I had was subject to the same
problem,however this only had 4 terminals on battery,2 of them were not
active.

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Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite