Recent content by Jim Lawrence

It appears to me that the center pin breaks at the circuit board from plugging and unplugging the power cable. It wiggles the center pin and caused it to fatigue and break. This causes a high resistance connection which creates the heat. That is my theory. It could be that they have a...

This is exactly what happened to my computer just not as severe. I first cut one side of the metal at the mother board and bent the outside cover up so I could access the rest of the pins. I carefully cut away the rest of the power adapter and left as much of the pins exposed as I could. I...

My original post pasted below with an update--- My MSI gt70 would just shut down without warning and I kept getting the low battery. The power adapter would show charging sometimes and sometimes not. I dis assembled and found that the center pin in the power plug on the motherboard had broken...