Well that was a fun day!
I received a used D610 last week, and have since thoroughly enjoyed using it to do course work (it's my first laptop).
However, yesterday I was browsing Youtube, and it just 'cut out'. I wiggled the power lead plug for a while (no battery at the moment), and after several attempts it started up fine. Today I wiggled the plug to see if it would repeat, and it did - again it cutout, but only afetr a minute or so of me fiddling with it.
At this point I concluded that the socket is a bit spaffed up, so I dismantled the poor laptop and took the mobo to work to inspect it.
After a look at the solder joints around the PSU socket and a re-flowing of the solder, I took it home and reassembled it. Now it's dead as a dodo.
I just bought a battery today, so I'll try that when it arrives (just incase I banjaxed the socket when I soldered it). I'm not particularly hopeful though.
Great.![Frown :( :(](/styles/default/xenforo/vbSmilies/Normal/frown.gif)
I received a used D610 last week, and have since thoroughly enjoyed using it to do course work (it's my first laptop).
However, yesterday I was browsing Youtube, and it just 'cut out'. I wiggled the power lead plug for a while (no battery at the moment), and after several attempts it started up fine. Today I wiggled the plug to see if it would repeat, and it did - again it cutout, but only afetr a minute or so of me fiddling with it.
At this point I concluded that the socket is a bit spaffed up, so I dismantled the poor laptop and took the mobo to work to inspect it.
After a look at the solder joints around the PSU socket and a re-flowing of the solder, I took it home and reassembled it. Now it's dead as a dodo.
I just bought a battery today, so I'll try that when it arrives (just incase I banjaxed the socket when I soldered it). I'm not particularly hopeful though.
Great.
![Frown :( :(](/styles/default/xenforo/vbSmilies/Normal/frown.gif)