Ge620 dc jack part number?

Question

ge-620 MS-16G5- As in the title, I managed to somehow pull out the center post of the darned thing. It slides back in place, and apparently the power brick is still powering the laptop, however this is obviously not a stable long term arrangement. Does anyone know what part I'd need to pick up to fix it? I haven't seen any of the laptopjacks.domain type places or eBay stores list this model, and as it's my daily computer I'd like to not have it apart any more or more often than necessary. I'm handy with a soldering iron and have done this specific repair on other, lesser laptops using generic barrel connectors, but would like to keep this one nice and as close original as possible. Oftentimes you get a part that would fit but for the height/width and you wind up with a chewed up case :(

Answer 1

Right, well after getting another laptop and paying it half off I went ahead and tore into the ge620. the power jack is actually quite reperable, it is separate from the motherboard, and there are wires that solder into it, as opposed to being part of the mobo or even a daughterboard. +respect to MSI for that! there were 2-3 red cables soldered together and soldered to the center pin, and they were no longer attached to said pin from the back. To dissasemble I took out the battery, removed 2 screws under it, took out the dvd drive (there's a screw that's marked that holds it in) and took out 3 screws under that. Took off the back panel, undid every screw that I saw, and then flipped it over, carefully opened the top, popped the keyboard off (if you look carefully at the top there are 4 slots, you can use a spudger/thin screwdriver to pop it out), removed another screw or so and then the top housing came off. I had to loosen the left hinge and then take out a small metal bracket to the left of said hinge and the power jack is just wedged into a molded cavity for it. After resoldering the broken connection and then prying up on this little metal tab for the ground connection and re-assembling it works as good as new. I'm posting from it now. If you do this yourself i recommend taking pictures of every screw you take out, I somehow managed to optimize the design by about 5 tiny screws but it is together, solid, and working. Also recommend you repack the HSF goop while you're in there. the fan has 3 screws and has to come out before the heat sink/tubes. Also note: the keyboard ribbon connector slides forward to release it, the top panel has ribbin connectors for the trackpad and top button bar that rotate up to release the cables.