| Gateway Laptop Power Connector Repair. Click Picture
to Supersize. |
| 1. Possible short from the power pin of the new
connector to the ground (the ground on the laptop side of the ground
inductor. There is an inductor connecting the ground of the power
connector to the ground of the laptop. This inductor cooked.
Note there is also an inductor on the top but it was not cooked. |
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| 2. I'm pretty sure the short was there. |
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| 3. New inductor (stolen from a junk laptop MB)
installed. I'll call this #1. |
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| 4. Ok no more smoke but nothing happens. I bet the top
has an open. (from my experience of ripping off the trace)
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| 5. Close up shows the barrel has been ripped up. |
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| 6. My attempt to reconnect the pin. It's hard getting in
with a huge soldering Iron while not being able to see what your doing.
This is a Microscope job... |
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| 7. I powered up the board before putting it together and
the lights came on but that was short lived. I put the board back in
and most of the covers and screws, I lugged in the power and smoked
inductor #1.
I quickly took it apart and indeed, the +20 was shorted to ground.
I removed the board and discovered that I did not replace an
insulator that I had removed. I put it back in place AND removed some of
the copper shield under the power connector to give it more clearance.
No more short.
Hopefully that was it. |
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| There is is! Powered up and ready for final assembly.
That's not me in the reflection... |
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