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Take a look at the picture.Īs you see, the positive pin goes through the hole in the system board and you solder it on the top side. A loose power jack can damage the trace inside the hole in the system board.

You can feel it when you plug in the adapter plug.

When a connection between the positive pin and the motherboard breaks (cracks), the power jack gets loose. The battery will not charge and the power LED will not light when you plug in the AC adapter. Sometimes, after you replace the jack, you can see that the system board doesn’t get power at all. You can find a new DC jack for Toshiba Satellite M35X and Toshiba Satellite A70/A75 laptops on eBay. In some cases the connection is good, but the DC jack is bad itself.

The crack occurs between the DC jack pin and the system board. Here is an example of Toshiba Satellite M35X power jack. In most cases you get the power problem because of a bad connection between the DC jack and the system board, you’ll see a crack between the DC jack connector and the system board. Take a closer look at the power jack on the system board with a magnifying glass. To fix the problem, you have to take your laptop apart, remove the system board to resoleder or replace the DC-IN jack. When you plug AC adapter, the laptop appears to be dead and there is no LED activity at all (DC-IN jack on the system board is broken).Power LED and battery charge LED start flickering when you wiggle the power cord or the AC adapter tip on the back or your laptop.Laptop randomly shuts down without any warning.***All the keys marked with three stars do not work on the fly, but are recognized by Ubuntu and are easily binded to functions in gnome. **CeleronM Dothans do not support Hardware frequency scaling * There is no 3d acceleration onboard, and external monitors have worked on previous versions of Linux (suse, mandriva, slackware) However I did not restart the xserver upon plugging in the external monitor