Monday, December 3, 2007

Gateway MX3238/W323-UI1 DC Jack Repair

These 3000 series gateways seem to have a lot of internal dc jack problems. Almost every one I've done has had a solder job that's held up fine but the center pin on the dc jack breaks internally. I was able to get the laptop to turn on briefly using the wiggle technique on the adapter plug.
Once the laptop was all torn down the dc jack looked fine but was replaced as always. When I got the laptop all put back together it would power on/charge fine again.

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