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Toshiba Tecra A8 Power Problems
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Laptop Repair Guy said that Toshiba has released an extension warranty arising from a class action lawsuit. As what I can say (I am not a lawyer to better check for yourself) I have no luck since I'm in Canada, but certainly better to have Toshiba fix it for free that you try.
After putting up a post about repairing my computer power connector, laptop Freak left a comment instructive:
As you see in the picture above, the positive connector oxidized and almost black. If you put a fresh solder on the connector of this kind, the problem outlet reappears very quickly. I usually remove the power plug from the system board (with gun iron and solder sucker), oxidized own pin on the power plug and blocks on the motherboard and only after resolder the power jack.
It turns out, unsurprisingly, he was right. The outlet started to come loose again after about a month and a half. I was surrounded by a bunch of things so I do not really want to play with it so I threw open the computer and a little more solder on it. When the power jack started jiggling again a few weeks later, I knew I had to do something something better to address them. So I took a sucker desoldering and some desoldering wick.
It was kind of fun to melt welding and suck until I started thinking about how much money I was playing with. Anyway I lucky good warm soldering with a soldering iron, with suction cup (it seems that the technical term is the desoldering pump), then the rest with the desoldering braid to copper. This left only tiny bit of solder so I pulled on each joint separately, while heating them with an iron welded. MAKE has just put up a nice video of welding and soldering tutorial. It would have been helpful to have watched that before making any that.
After all that, I was left with the separate power socket. Laptop Freak was not kidding about oxidation. It looks like someone left the connectors into the Dead Sea. I'm not an electrician, but I guess black crud covering the electrical contacts can not be a good thing. So I scraped all the dirt with a screwdriver and polish them until they are nice and shiny.
Then I tried to clean the card contacts with an eraser to remove any oxidation on the copper, making stuck back in his hole and welded back. So far, I have not had any problems, we'll see if it last this time. If it breaks again (knock on wood), I'm definitely trying the workaround external power jack.
In case you have not read my previous post on fixing this, here are the links to find out how to disassemble a Toshiba Satellite A70 (And tons of other laptops) and common problems Toshiba power jack.
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