Repair Part 2
laptop and remove
two screws located
directly under the
display hinges
(bottom two red
circles in picture)
Flip the laptop back
over. Disconnect the
wire connectors for
the screen. (circled
yellow below) one
has a ground screw
that needs removed.
Pull Straight up on
the screen and it will
come off. Then
finish removing
screws from bottom
shown in red at left.
(Don't forget one in
center)
red at right in top of laptop
there should be 8 of them.
Remove connectors for
mouse and speaker front
panel controls (circle
yellow below) Pry upward
on the top of the case and
it should come free now.
screws on the heat sink *X-shaped
item at left) for the processor.
Notice they have numbers on the
heat sink corresponding to them
remove in descending order
(4,3,2,1) Be careful not to loose
the screws or springs that go with
them. Wiggle the heat sink free
from board carefully.
into like 23432343423 pieces is for
the item circled in red at right and
yellow below. The connector for
the power cord. If you lightly wiggle
it and look from the side and look at
the bottom you may see a solder
connection that has broken. This is
what needs repaired. You can take
this to an electronics/computer
repair store and they can try and re
solder this it may work if yours is
not broken internally. Mine was
broken inside. You may think "Hey I
can solder, I think I will give it a try
myself!" If you want try, I have
soldered a lot of things and feel
fairly accomplished at soldering,
however I did not try mine as you
must control the heat from the
soldering gun very very carefully to
not damage the mother board.
replace the connector. Wrongo, its a very rare
shape and wattage for a connector of its type. So
as of yet the computer repair store has not
located a new one. If they cannot locate one I
have a plan to replace this connector and
hopefully make the connection better than it
originally was.
involve removing the old
connector entirely. Then
soldering wires into the board
where the connector used to
connect. Bring the wires out the
hole in the back and then anchor
them in place with epoxy so they
can't be pulled out. Then use an
external connector to connect to
the charging plug. When you
wanted to plug in the charger you
would grab the connector coming
out the back of the computer and
the plug from the charger and
plug them together. This would
eliminate the stress on the solder
joints as you would be holding
the connection to prevent stress.
The epoxy would work as a strain
release so that even if you
tugged on the connector coming
out the back it would be
protected from pulling the solder
connections loose. This would
not be a very attractive fix as you
laptop will now have a "tail", but it
is very functional and would
hopefully give you a few more
years of life out of your computer.
you love instructions like that) Below I
have a pictures of what the screws that
I removed and the paper I taped them
too look like they may help you to
figure out where one goes or at least
show you how I labeled mine as they
came out. If you have any questions
email me see the Contact section.
For the subject line put "HP laptop
connector fix" I will try and answer
your question to the best of my
knowledge.
