[ltp] Broken USB Port R31

[Simon Royal]

Ted

I might just give it a miss. I do have another port, dont use USB very
often and have a USB 2 PCMCIA card if I really get stuck.

I have a laptop engineer mate, but he is 20 miles away and I dont drive.

Simon

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Ted Frater <ted.frater@virgin.net> wrote:
> Simon Royal wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I just managed to damage my USB port on my R31. The one on the back.
>>
>> I pushed my wireless stick in too hard and it now wont pick up
>> anything in the port. Luckily I am not totally scuppered as I do have
>> a side port too and push comes to shove I have a USB 2 PCMCIA card.
>>
>> The back port is not totally broken. It seems the plastic bit has been
>> pushed in. Is it possible to repair it?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>
> Yes,
> but a Thinkpad laptop =A0bench man's time is =A350.00 per hr.
> It will need a complete strip down to the bare motherboard.
> Find another thinkpad motherboard, unsolder the usb =A0port
> Unsolder the damaged one
> solder on the replacement,
> reassemble.
> Test.
> 2 to 3 hrs work. plus getting it to him and getting it back.
> expensive learning curve.
>
>
>
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