An Asus laptop had power problems.
I found a few videos.
Short summary
A long summary
I played the short video until I was confident then I counted all the screws.
I made a plan...
PLAN |
|
|
Remove |
|
Number |
|
Battery |
1 |
|
rubber feet |
4 |
|
Screw under feet |
4 |
|
one screw at back in battery area |
1 |
|
Under cover |
1 |
|
Underneath screws |
11 |
|
small door |
1 |
|
screws under door |
2 |
|
battery area screws |
5 |
|
Keyboard |
1 |
|
Keyboard ribbon |
2 |
|
Optical drive |
1 |
|
screws in optical drive area |
3 |
|
Under track pad |
7 |
|
IO cable |
1 |
|
Speaker cable |
4 |
|
IO Board screw |
1 |
|
IO board removal |
1 |
|
Fix power plug |
|
And gave it a go, taking a photo at every step.
Then I soldered up the broken part.
It was the gold solid wire coming out the rear of the socket!
Can you see the black break in the gold wire?
Then I loaded the photos onto my laptop and went through them in reverse.
Using the photos as a check procedure.
I had to watch a few segments of the long video in order to connect back in the ribbon cables.
That was the most difficult part. But my photos showed me the before connections, so I kept persevering until the ribbon cables looked the same.
No screws were lost or damaged in this processes!
And none left over. I used magnets to hold the screws.