Tom’s Inspiron 6000 Power Adapter
Tom came over today with his laptop, hoping to get some help in fixing a busted power adapter connection. He said that when he had the adapter plugged into the laptop, it would sometimes charge the battery and sometimes not. He narrowed down the issue to the connector on the laptop’s motherboard, so he bought a replacement and needed to have it soldered on.
I asked Pat (my father in law) to help me diagnose and fix the issue. Tom and I opened up the laptop, and removed the motherboard from the case via the Dell Inspiron 6000 Service Manual. We flipped the motherboard over, then examined the leads on the motherboard, and noticed that a few of them were burnt out… not even connected.
So Pat redid the solder points, then we put the laptop back together, and wha-la, it worked. It’s nice when things work out first try…
Check out the pics:
Jeff Said,
October 15, 2007 @ 7:27 am
Good work, man. Soldering is a valuable life skill!
Raybdbomb Said,
October 15, 2007 @ 8:30 am
Heh, I actually didn’t do any of the soldering.
Jeff Said,
October 15, 2007 @ 9:22 am
Well if you don’t know how…then maybe you should get your father-in-law to do it for you. Soldering might save your life someday. MacGyver could solder together an explosive from toothpaste and a razer blade to break himself out of the bad guy’s secret hiding place in less than 60 seconds!!! Get on it!