Three weeks ago one of our laptops power jack broke (TOSHIBA satellite A500), it had been loose for some time and finally broke. We had it fixed, the shop said, that the pin broke in the power jack, and replaced the power jack. Less then two weeks later, it broke again, we took it back. Now the shop is saying that the corners of the power jack, the harness, and and the bottom assembly broke. He said we probally pushed the powercord in the laptop to hard (I dont think we pushed the power cord any different then the other laptops) . I noticed the day before it broke, the cord wiggled a bit. Does this sound right? I starting to think that it was a temporary fix.
The A500 jack is on a "harness" which just means the jack itself has wires that run from it over to the motherboard. This is generally a good design, unfortunately on this model and a few like it the plastics break on the laptop base assembly and the jack itself all the time. They are just too weak from the manufacturer.
If the shop had more experience they would have provided a real solution and fixed it right in the first place. I have a laptop repair shop (link below) and I can tell you they should just go ahead and make it right. When they get a new jack on it just needs a little epoxy to hold it in place. Yes, pushing on the jack too hard will break the plastics, however the plastics will break on that model under normal circumstances. So, the blame could easily be put on the computer store, the customer or Toshiba. Here I've seen hundreds of those though, and the best way to fix them is to just epoxy the new jack right to the base because if you don't, you customer WILL be back eventually and they are likely to be less than happy!
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