Repairing a power socket on a laptop computer onsite at Wellesbourne in Warwickshire

Good morning we are with a customer on Hammon Green at Wellesbourne in Warwickshire, we are here to effect a repair on an Acer Aspire 5738 / 5338 laptop computer that has a loose power supply socket, this will involve disassembling the computer and removing the main motherboard to see if the socket looks repairable and assuming that it does need re soldering and strengthening the socket before testing and reassembling .
Laptop Power Supply Connector Repair

Update: The Acer Aspire 5738 / 5338 laptop computer was repaired successfully, and as the machine was 2.5 years old it seemed prudent to change the CR2032 battery that holds the time date and CMOS information as they can last 3 to 5 years and normally would be inaccessible.

Repairing a power socket on a Dell Inspiron laptop at Bishops Itchington in Warwickshire

Next today we are with a customer on Chapel Street at Bishops Itchington in Warwickshire, The customer has reported that the power socket on his Dell Laptop is loose and is not charging up correctly ( It will only charge the battery when the connector is held ), To repair this computer we first need to strip the laptop and removed the main board and then inspect the power connector luckily the connect is not broken and we are able to clean up the mother board, Resoldered the connector and strengthen its support, Then we tested and Reassembled the Dell Laptop.

This one was a relatively quick repair and took us approximately 1.5 hours to complete other computer makes have been known to take up to 2.5 hours.