Q: Damaged USB port - replacable/repairable?
After installing new HD noticed that one of the two USB ports inoperative.
Is it repairable? How easy to replace?
One port was missing the black plastic that supports the 4 gold pins, yet it was operable for years. . Now it does not work. I may have inserted a cable the incorrect way and damaged it. The right gold post is bent back towards the bottom of the port (looking at the laptop from the rear with the bottom down). Normally it stands up straight alongside the other 3.
If I remove the battery what about striving to straighten it? (with battery in metal touching it restarts the laptop)
Alternate?? How can it be replaced? Easy or Hard? Difficult to find the part?
This is a not the day to day computer, but occasional demonstrations to small groups and/or as an emergency go computer.
Ideas please
Is it repairable? How easy to replace?
One port was missing the black plastic that supports the 4 gold pins, yet it was operable for years. . Now it does not work. I may have inserted a cable the incorrect way and damaged it. The right gold post is bent back towards the bottom of the port (looking at the laptop from the rear with the bottom down). Normally it stands up straight alongside the other 3.
If I remove the battery what about striving to straighten it? (with battery in metal touching it restarts the laptop)
Alternate?? How can it be replaced? Easy or Hard? Difficult to find the part?
This is a not the day to day computer, but occasional demonstrations to small groups and/or as an emergency go computer.
Ideas please
T1 laptop G4 400 mhz 120GB HD, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
Posted on Nov 11, 2010 1:39 PM