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My Laptop won't charge, i believe electricity don't pass by?
11-27-2012, 07:04 AM
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Likely, either the port in the laptop is broken, or the power adapter no longer works for some reason. If you believe the power adapter to be functioning, you may have broken the power jack that in the laptop. I have repaired 3 dell laptops in the past 5 years that family members and friends had brought to me asking for help as to why it wouldn't charge. Each one had a broken power jack.

If your power jack is broken, likely the plug of the power adapter won't fit as firmly into the jack as it use to. It may even be very wiggly. If at any time, holding the power plug in the jack in a certain way allowed the laptop to charge, it's likely the jack is indeed broken.

The cheapest solution for repairing a broken jack would be to acquire the service manual for the laptop on the Dell website, disassemble it, and either repair the jack if possible or replace it with a new one. New power jacks for laptops can usually be purchased from eBay for less than $10.

Here is a jack I found on ebay that is listed as for a Vostro 1000: http://www.ebay.com/itm/110850841988

You would need soldering skills...

Of course, you could always take to to a computer repair shop. You'll likely pay about a $70+ "benching fee" ontop of the time it takes them to look at it. Then they'll charge you the cost/labor/time to repair it. Maybe there are better repair shops around where you live, but the local ones around here are pretty shady and expensive.
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[] - Adela - 11-27-2012, 07:04 AM
[] - Blake - 11-27-2012 07:04 AM
[] - Bassman1 - 11-27-2012, 07:04 AM
[] - Dell_Nitika_K - 11-27-2012, 07:04 AM
[] - Ben Kleinberg - 11-27-2012, 07:04 AM

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