"DaveM" wrote in message

My experience with laptop power connectors is that one or more of the tabs
that are soldered to the main board have broken. The center pin is
usually swaged onto its tab. If the center pin is loose, then you might
be able to solder it onto its tab, but it probably won't last very long,
since solder is a very weak metal. You really need to replace the
connector.
Thank you for that input: This (along with the location of the manual) is
exactly what I wanted to know. The logical thing to do when you know that a
pin is so badly designed that it has started malfunctioning and you can see
a loose pin is NOT to try to patch up the pin [as you correctly note],
especially when the problem is so widedpread that there is a web site out
there specifically set up to deal with this exact problem at perfectly
reasonable expense!

In the words of Yes Minister, when a fish starts to smell, you dont stand
around enquiring which bit of the fish is smelling, (or for that matter
taking intricate measurements of tiny interior bits you can see are at
fault) you chuck it away.
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Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just substitute the appropriate characters
in the address)

"In theory, there isn't any difference between theory and practice. In
practice, there is." - Yogi Berra