G'day All,

Perhaps there's someone here who can give me a bit of advice?

I recently had to buy a new laptop because my trusty 8 year old Dell (D610) had the following trouble =>

Plug in external power supply - light goes on on unit and appears to work

Plug D/C side of external power supply into laptop - light on power supply goes out - battery does not charge - computer does not run from external power supply.

At the time this happened I did not have the time to even attempt to fix it so I bought a new Acer.


However, children are now pestering me to fix the old laptop so that they can use it (new laptop is a child free item!).


QUESTION =>

Is it likely that the connection / plug where you plug in the external power adapter has gone south?

It is this bit =>

DL111500 | New Dell Series Laptop Power DL111500 DC Jack

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!