Disassembling a laptop :/
 

I've half done this before with limited success, but this time I have a treat on my hands.

The laptop in question is a Toshiba Satellite P25-S607 media center edition laptop. It is mine for free. The problem appears to be as though the power connector on the back end of the computer is broken - if you put the cord in and let go, it sags severely and the entire connector tilts down.

I think if I can somehow get into this and resolder the power port, I'll be set.

The problem is, I can't get in there for the life of me! I can't find a dissasembly manual either. Any advice?

use a digital camera and document every screw you take out, if you do is slowly and carefully you can take it apart.

Word to that. Looks like only 2 screws came up homeless :( Man that word is depressing.

Turns out my problem is within the power plug, so opening the laptop was useless. I think the only solution is to fill the inside of the male end with solder..

you could also just replace that part.

impact computers has lots of stock for that model

http://www.impactcomputers.com/toshi...607-parts.html

Thanks tribble-with-a-face-man, but it looks like the particular part is missing. Even if it was in, I doubt I could replace it.

Buy a mathing female connector from Radio Shack (or whoever) and solder it onto a wire. Open the lappy and solder the other end of the wire to the circuit board where the missing component would have been.

Close the lappy.

Enjoy.

Kinda late but here's a takeapart for that model:
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptop...lliteP25_1.htm

As for the connector, I'd probably go with Daniel's suggestion of just finding whatever connector pair and patching them in. Radio shack has quite a few surface mount females I'm sure you could make work.

Good find, by the way!

Thanks a lot guys :) I brought it to a teacher of mine, who is much more mechanically apt then myself, and he took it a little farther than I could. He thought the best option was to solder the wire directly to the board, and after a bit of fun, that works.

Only problem I have now is, the left click button is flaky, and the kicker is -
it won't boot to the CD drive until after I have booted to the hard drive, a fact I did not know until after I deleted the partition.

Well, I think it's safe to say that someone above really, really hates this laptop.