computer repair

[H. K. Bemis]

I would advise simply ship it to a repair house if there isn't a
suitable repair option for you locally.

There's no reason trying to re-invent the wheel here.  There are dozens
of repair houses that will repair the DC jack in less then 2 weeks.

I recommend UCR, I think they are located in Ohio, but I'm not sure.
Email off list if you're interested.  We ship them units, and about
three weeks later, the units come back.  Cost is about 150 complete,
including shipping.

~k

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:57 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Karl Hergenrother <33karl at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I thought of removing the cover, but it is not obvious how.
> 
>   If you are looking to solicit the opinions of others here on this
> list, it would help if you told us the precise model of Toshiba
> Satellite you have.  :-)
> 
> > It appears from the pictures that the power socket is mounted directly
> > to the motherboard.  It might be a difficult repair.
> 
>   Yes, pretty much everything is surface-mount soldering these days.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-mount_technology
> 
>   I suspect that's why some of the DIY repairs I've seen have used
> wire leads.  I'm guessing it is easier to hand-solder a lead to a PCB
> then a surface-mount connector.  So they solder the leads to the mobo,
> and then solder a new connector to the leads.
> 
> -- Ben
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