My boyfriend dropped my laptop on the corner of where the battery plug goes in to charge it and now it won't go in all the way and can't charge. My battery is slowly dying, so I guess I won't be on here for a while until I get a new laptop (this one is so old now, and not worth fixing). Everybody stay safe till I get back! (Could be a while, a laptop wasn't exactly on my list of things to buy ).
if your laptop's going to be junk without the cord anyway, might as well try to force that fucker in. with a hammer if necessary.
How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning? How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning? ~Midnight Oil
open it up and solder whatever broke if you screw it up then its junk..just like it is anyways ...if you manage to fix it then youre ahead
Sellotape (think you guys in the US call it duct tape?) forced the little fucker in. Problem solved! I am back now, moderator this thread can be closed now, it isn't needed.
Strongly agree. Couldn't hurt to be self-sufficient in our shitty consumer based world. A little thing broke, don't get rid of the whole thing, fix the fuckin' thing. If you need new parts, you can get a generic plug at the hardware store, and change out the laptop and charger ones. Or get the part on ebay. At least properly recycle the laptop, especially battery, if you decide to decomission it.
Will do. Where do you take a laptop to recycle it? It's almost run it's race and this battery fuck up in the final nail in the coffin methinks. It probably only has a few months left in it regardless.
There's computer recyclers. And most serious metal or battery recycling places would probably take it, or direct you where you could take it. You should recycle metal anyways, just throw it somewhere and take it with a load of copper or something at some point. My laptop is a pentium II from about 98.... I don't see much reason to retire it if you can keep it going, but of course, do as you wish. If you do want to try to repair it, even for the short term, an easy way might be to get it apart, and simply solder a new connector on a short piece of wire onto the leads where the old connector was (remove the old one) and run that wire through the hole from the old one, then solder the matching one onto the power supply cord. Could be done for a few dollars with stuff from any hardware store, and for all you know, it could have years of use left in it, unless you want a faster one or something-chances are all it needs in a reinstall of windows or linux. Bear in mind that the longer you use things before recycling them, the more efficient you're being :2thumbsup: As you can tell, I have a hard time letting computers go. Best of luck, whatever you do.
computer recycling companies can give you a few bucks toward a new one...don't expect much though. My old computer was worth $90 but I only got $40 for it after they "inspected" it. Even though I mentioned all the problems before sending it in. I say you break something of your boyfriend's for breaking it...that bastard! :tongue:
Just be sure to either remove the hard drive or do a thorough wipe/format on it before handing over for recycling. Don't want anyone to go digging for any personal info. My friend who has his own networking business has to, by contract, when he "retires" a clients workstations or servers, he does a government level wipe (don't recall what it is exactly called) that takes about 12 hours. Then he pulls the hard drives and takes them to the recyclers separately. Then at the recycler he watches as the load of hard drives are dumped into a shredder, signs paperwork, has the recycler sign and done. He deals with governmental agencies, medical business's, etc. that demand a high level of security. So he has to ensure the security and integrity of the data from start to finish. Doubt you have to go that far though.
sure it is. it is now dedicated to discussing why the hell anyone would call duct tape sellotape. it's for taping ducts, not cellos.
Does anyone call it that? I got some awesome snobby tape yesterday. Had to get aluminium high-heat tape for my exhaust, and while I was at it, was tempted into buying high-temp duct tape, too. Should avoid the gummies in most regular situations. Aluminium tape is rated for 260f, high-temp duct tape is rated for 200f, got me a whole role of each. It also cost me 23 fucking dollars.
