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Dell Inspiron 8100 DC Jack Repair

1,894 views · Published 25 January 2015 · 15:22 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: jaykay18 · 2015 · Howto & Style

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Originally recorded January 10, 2015.

Last I saw my brother-in-law, I asked him if he had any old 2.5" IDE (PATA) hard drives laying around I could have, since all of mine crapped out.  He went and grabbed this Dell Inspiron 8100 from "the pile" and told me I could have the drive.  He also told me that the DC Jack was bad on it, I think he mentioned he tried fixing it but it still didn't work.

So now I had a predicament.  Do I:
1.  Take the drive and give the machine back.
2.  Fix the machine and keep it.
3.  Fix the machine and give it back.
4.  Fix the machine, take the drive, and give the rest back.

I chose option 3, which is really the right thing to do.  If I could fix it, I wouldn't take the drive from it because then a machine I just fixed wouldn't be usable, so what was the point?

Never having done any circuit board soldering before I took my time, and while I don't solder very well at all, I was, after a couple trials and tribulations, able to fix it.

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