Let me have your junk Thinkpad and I'll let you know... I used to repair those things in a past life. On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 07:40, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > on my z50 WorkPad (a MIPS-based subnotebook), the power socket doesn't seem > to be connected very well to the rest of the machine. if I just plug it in, > the charging light won't come on. to get external power working, I need to > actually apply downward pressure to the power plug, which pulls downward on > that socket. it seems to be getting worse, requiring more pressure to work > as time goes on. > > I've got a junk Thinkpad down in the basement with the same problem; so I > suspect something wrong with IBMs design. > > anyone ever seen this before, and know how to take one of these apart so I > can solder on the socket? (at least I'm guessing that's the way to fix it). > I tried taking it apart once, and couldn't figure out (trivially at least) > how to get more than the keyboard off. the motherboard is all sealed up > inside the main case it seems. > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Insert witty comment here. > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list