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Laptop DC Jack Repair Augusta GA

** Laptop Mail In - Shipping Repair Available **

Signs Of A Bad Laptop DC Power Jack:

• Battery not charging?
• Intermittent charging indicator in system tray when plugged in?
• Internal DC Jack feel real loose in laptop?
• Does the laptops internal power connector move in all directions when you move the cord & plug?
• Does the laptop power cord work only, or sometimes when "wiggling", or holding the plug in a certain position?
• Sparks out the back of laptop near the DC Jack area.
• No power lights at all? No power up?

95% of the time it is the internal power connector that has broken or become loose inside. Very common breakdown in Windows based laptops.

Laptop DC Power Jack Repair $99
Parts Labor Included With Repair!
(Regularly $135 - Expires 11/30/2011)

Laptop DC Jack Repair Service Includes:

• Parts & Labor
• Power Adapter Cord Power Test
• Complete Dis-Assembly Of The Laptop
• Diagnostics / Internal Power Test
• Repair or DC Power Jack Replacement
• Power Test Before Re-Assembly
• Thorough Cleaning of All Internal Components, Cooling fan
• Fresh Artic Silver Thermal Compound On CPU/Processor
• Re-Assembly Of The Laptop
• And Final Power Test After Laptop Assembly

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NO Fix, NO Charge....

If the DC Jack has caused other damaged to the motherboard and PCTech is not able to repair/restore power back to your laptop, there is NO Charge for the service. The only charge you will have is return shipping of your laptop.

How & Why The DC Jack Breaks:

Overtime, even under normal conditions the soldered power connections can loosen, separate off the laptops motherboard. The laptops DC Power Jack is a very common breakdown unfortunately on laptops. A known weak spot on laptops & notebooks.

The dc jack on your laptop is a very small, very fragile component, and very poorly designed on every Windows based laptop. Small, fragile but critical component,, for without it you have no power via the power charger cord, which means your battery will not charge.... dead non functioning laptop.

The DC Power Jack on a laptops & notebooks are not designed to take a lot of abuse. If the cord is allowed to place a lot of lateral pressure on the jack, then eventually the jack will fail. Any lateral, angular or any torque will eventually damaged the internal power connection. The DC Jack is soldered to the motherboard by 3 -9 very small pieces of metal. Which can very easily break.

Examples Of How The DC Power Jack Break:

• Not careful disconnecting power cord from laptop.
• "Yanking" the power cord out of the laptop.
• You get up from table and trip over the power cord connected to the laptop.
• Family pet tripping over power cord, "yanking" the power cord and DC Jack.
• Laptop is dropped and hits the floor on power plug side of laptop, jamming the plug into the laptop.
• Normal everyday use plugging in, and unplugging can loosen the DC Jack.

All the above can put "accidental" stress on the internal DC Power Jack of the laptop which will loosen, break, separate the soldered power connection to the motherboard, or break the dc jack completely off the board.

95% of the time the DC Jack can be repaired or replaced and your laptop is back up working again. It all depends if the damage is only to the DC Power Jack. If the DC Jack has also damaged the motherboard (cracked the PCB where the jack mounts to it), then the entire motherboard will need to be replaced.

The motherboards on laptops & desktops systems is a very sensitive piece of electronics. Static electricity alone can short a motherboard out. Operating a laptop with a bad DC Jack, intermittent power is not recommended, for this can cause further damage to the laptops motherboard circuitry. The time to get this checked and fixed is when you first start noticing erratic power, intermittent battery charging cycle when laptop is plugged in.

There is a power regulator fuse, a very small chip (usually 2 of them) on the motherboard, this chip regulates the power to the battery charging circuitry AND the motherboard. 1 fuse chip is usually close to the battery connector, the other fuse chip very close to the DC Jack. IF this chip has been damaged by the broken dc jack, shorted out, power surged the chip, burned etc, the motherboard will need replaced in order to fully repair.

Check, power test your power adapter cord.
You can do this fairly easily with a volt meter. PCTech will can check the power adapter cord here. Out of the last 10 laptops that has come to PCTech for DC Power Jack repair, 4 of the laptops had bad power cords. Producing no power to the laptop. A new power adapter cord had these 4 laptops up and running again, and not a DC Jack internal repair.