A laptop without power is not a happy laptop

This time not a pointless project and for that I am so sorry but I feel that it may be of some help to others who come across a problem similar to this one. The problem was an Acer Aspire 3681WXMi whose battery didn’t charge and wouldn’t run off external power… now there is obviously only a few things which could have been at fault in this case: 1. Power Supply 2. Power Supply Socket on Motherboard or 3. Motherboard. Now skipping past all the testing and troubleshooting it turned out to be the power supply socket on the motherboard and wahoo! to any Australian who can get a replacement locally. In the end I decided to go for the quick fix which essentially works anyways so long as you aren’t in for any flashy look.

I took to the socket with a pair of pliers, then made my own beautiful plug <insert the rolling of eyes>.

So there we have it, not the prettiest repair but it works.

Also just a couple of things to note with the blog, some of the images are not being displayed due to their hosting being closed down so I hope to have them re-hosted soon.

Apart from that hoping to have some more stuff up here soon!