Grunff wrote:
Tim Downie wrote:

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

Simplest thing to do is open it up, remove the DC socket and solder
in a short (~30cm) flying lead terminated in a line socket. Use a good
grommet at the exit hole.

I did that with an old Medion but the constant flexing of the fly lead
eventaully knackered it again. I was hoping for a better solution.


And *don't buy Packard Bell again*!

Well I know that *now*! ;-)

Tim