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I've got an Asus N71JQ laptop which I bought second hand when I was in the states (think it was about 2 months old). I've used it for around a year now, and it's been totally trouble free, apart from last week when it suddenly failed to turn on.
I've tried different chargers, but still no luck - the battery doesn't even charge: nothing at all happens.
It's still covered by asus' warranty, but before I sent it off I decided to open it up and see what, if anything was causing the problem.
The first thing I noticed was the warranty sticker covering the heatsink screws had been broken, but strangely there was two rather than one, although both were damaged. Curiously, the only reason why you would undo the screws would be to access the CPU/GPU, both of which look fine. However, now I obviously can't send it back to asus. Here's a pic of what it looked like if you're interested:
I decided to check out the DC jack, as that seemed the most likely culprit as no power was getting to the laptop at all. Having taken a close look at the solder joints, I believe I may be right, but I'm not sure. To me at least it seems like it's been repaired in the past - the solder looks like it was applied by a human rather than a machine, but what do you think? Here's the pictures:
Even if that was the case, the repair looks pretty good to me. Is it possible that it's the issue anyway? Is it worth paying someone £70 to solder a new DC jack on?
TL;DR: What is causing my laptop to not get any power. If it's the DC jack, is the soldering dodgy?
Thanks
I've tried different chargers, but still no luck - the battery doesn't even charge: nothing at all happens.
It's still covered by asus' warranty, but before I sent it off I decided to open it up and see what, if anything was causing the problem.
The first thing I noticed was the warranty sticker covering the heatsink screws had been broken, but strangely there was two rather than one, although both were damaged. Curiously, the only reason why you would undo the screws would be to access the CPU/GPU, both of which look fine. However, now I obviously can't send it back to asus. Here's a pic of what it looked like if you're interested:
I decided to check out the DC jack, as that seemed the most likely culprit as no power was getting to the laptop at all. Having taken a close look at the solder joints, I believe I may be right, but I'm not sure. To me at least it seems like it's been repaired in the past - the solder looks like it was applied by a human rather than a machine, but what do you think? Here's the pictures:
Even if that was the case, the repair looks pretty good to me. Is it possible that it's the issue anyway? Is it worth paying someone £70 to solder a new DC jack on?
TL;DR: What is causing my laptop to not get any power. If it's the DC jack, is the soldering dodgy?
Thanks
I've just tried it on DC and am not getting any reading from the solder on the jack at all