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When I recently dismantled a Samsung laptop (had W7, though had
originally been Vista vintage, I think) because it wasn't getting power
from the outside, either to run it or charge the battery (I eventually
found the power socket connections on the motherboard had indeed failed
- did manage to resolder them), I was pleasantly surprised to find that
many of the connectors were not actually on the motherboard, but were on
tiny little boards that held just one or two sockets, and maybe the odd
light, and were connected to the mobo by cables: and I saw in passing
(though I didn't need to replace any of them) that virtually all the
assorted little boards (usually with their cable pigtails) were
available (new, or at least unused) on ebay. The point of this rather
long paragraph is that it might be possible at relatively low cost to
get the little boards with the sockets on, and replace them without
needing to do any soldering. Though it sounds as if your power socket
does need attention from an iron (or, if you aren't bothered by
appearance and can find out the connections, a dangly external socket
fitting).
Hmm, a laptop's innards is definitely not the place to start! A skill
worth acquiring, though. But if you're lucky - I don't know if this is
the case on any laptops - the power socket might be on a separate
replaceable board too. (On the one I was fixing, it was mounted directly
on the mobo, which was a pain.)
IKWYM - both in the forced purchase and in getting everything back how
you like it.
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