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[nohanii]

Does anybody know how to fix a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop? It's been a bitch about charging for almost a year now. It's not the battery or the adapter; those have both been replaced. It's an internal component, probably something that takes the input from the adapter to either power the computer or charge the batter (or both). For several months I had to fiddle with the exact positioning of the adapter to let it charge at all, but now, no matter how I adjust the adapter, my laptop doesn't get any juice. I have a bunch of files that I need to get! Hours of music, years of photos, documents from school and whatnot. I need these files, but I can't get to them because my damn laptop turns off the moment I turn it on. Argh.

Dan tried to fix my laptop last weekend by soldering the internal component thing back onto the motherboard to give it a better connection (as opposed to none at all). It worked!... for about 15 minutes. Now it's back to being a stupid piece of crap. Any other ideas? Is there any way I can hook up my laptop's harddrive to my desktop? Anything?

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[roie.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that happened to mine until it finally STOPPED charging. I had to send it off to the company (it was a Gateway) because nobody at the computer repair shops would touch it because it's connected to the motherboard (as you already know). But yeh it's apparently extremely difficult to replace, but that's like the only thing you can do to fix it :/ I got lucky and it was a defect in my computer so they replaced it for free.

[honeystix.livejournal.com]

I've had this laptop for over 4 years now. In that time, it's gotten hauled around unprotected (yay, school), tripped over, and dropped repeatedly. My warranty (which I don't think covers accidents) ended on the 4th anniversary of the purchase. I really don't care that it's dying (it's been a pain in my ass for awhile now), I just care about the files!