Dissassembling Pavilion zd7140us - PowerJack

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I have a "going bad" power jack on my Pavilion.

I took out most of the back screws to access this crazy thing - and
then noted it looks like I have to take off the hinge screws as well.
<ARGGGH!>

Are there any tricks / snaffu's to accessing this thing so I can fix
it ?

BTW: I've 5 years experience fixing Televisions and electronics as
well as an Electrical Engineering degree ...so I've been around the
block a few times.

My concern is the ole' "Exploding Watch' tragedy where everything just
"falls apart into a billion pieces" after the last screw.

The power jack inside the laptop is OneSided and should have had 2
clips instead of one to cause a "pinch" against the plug. Plus -
they should have wrapped that copper clip around a small board/metal
- put a screw in it and then soddered the end into the MB. Stupid if
they allowed direct stress from the coord onto a solder joint. Solder
is not plyable <sp> - it simply 'breaks' when stress is
applied.

Are they any "pictures" / diagrams of the screws to remove to get to
this power jack out there? I fear my machine will eventually fry
from this intermitant powerJack issue.
 
I have a "going bad" power jack on my Pavilion.

I took out most of the back screws to access this crazy thing - and
then noted it looks like I have to take off the hinge screws as well.
<ARGGGH!>

Are there any tricks / snaffu's to accessing this thing so I can fix
it ?

BTW: I've 5 years experience fixing Televisions and electronics as
well as an Electrical Engineering degree ...so I've been around the
block a few times.

My concern is the ole' "Exploding Watch' tragedy where everything just
"falls apart into a billion pieces" after the last screw.

The power jack inside the laptop is OneSided and should have had 2
clips instead of one to cause a "pinch" against the plug. Plus -
they should have wrapped that copper clip around a small board/metal
- put a screw in it and then soddered the end into the MB. Stupid if
they allowed direct stress from the coord onto a solder joint. Solder
is not plyable <sp> - it simply 'breaks' when stress is
applied.

Are they any "pictures" / diagrams of the screws to remove to get to
this power jack out there? I fear my machine will eventually fry
from this intermitant powerJack issue.
Click to expand...

I agree, power jack implementations on (heck, anything
modern these days) are a poor design decision, a primary
fault point.

This might be all the info available to public in the
service manual,
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00218664/c00218664.pdf

If that doesn't apply to yours then go to Hp.com and do a
search for that model, skim through the linked search
results, not the "Quick Links" per each model (which all too
often seem to omit most of what one is searching for).
 
konywrote:
On 27 May 2005 06:32:08 -0400,
(e-mail address removed)-spam.invalid (Bootlegger)
wrote:

I have a "going bad" power jack on my Pavilion.

I took out most of the back screws to access this crazy thing - and
then noted it looks like I have to take off the hinge screws as well.
ARGGGH!

Are there any tricks / snaffu's to accessing this thing so I can fix
it ?

BTW: I've 5 years experience fixing Televisions and electronics as
well as an Electrical Engineering degree ...so I've been around the
block a few times.

My concern is the ole' "Exploding Watch' tragedy where everything just
"falls apart into a billion pieces" after the last screw.

The power jack inside the laptop is OneSided and should have had 2
clips instead of one to cause a "pinch" against the plug. Plus -
they should have wrapped that copper clip around a small board/metal
- put a screw in it and then soddered the end into the MB. Stupid if
they allowed direct stress from the coord onto a solder joint. Solder
is not plyable <sp> - it simply 'breaks' when stress is
applied.

Are they any "pictures" / diagrams of the screws to remove to get to
this power jack out there? I fear my machine will eventually fry
from this intermitant powerJack issue.
Click to expand...
I agree, power jack implementations on (heck, anything
modern these days) are a poor design decision, a primary
fault point.

This might be all the info available to public in the
service manual,
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00218664/c00218664.pdf

If that doesn't apply to yours then go to Hp.com and do a
search for that model, skim through the linked search
results, not the "Quick Links" per each model (which all too
often seem to omit most of what one is searching
for).[/quote:fce278702e]

Thanx - that'll get me goin
 
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