Dont mind the double post - Heres the update on my M1210
Unfortunetely after a while of charging i had a problem running off AC power anymore, and found that things werent as easy as they seemed. Went ahead and broke down the laptop again, and read up online about gettin the mobo out of it. Found this thread about a problem with another m1210 that had a burnt chip just next to where the AC jack connects to the Mobo on the bottom, and decided I would check if my M1210 suffered from this issue. upon inspection, it indeed had this very same "Loop" (an my tech described it) chip broken on the board. So off I went to get the Mobo soldered back together, and while doing that fix, the tech noticed a bad connection from the AC Jack itself! After laying some solder on both the Jack (on the bottom side of Mobo where the pins come out) and some more to connect where the loop had previously been (some solder on each bit from the board and a thick wire running across them both - be sure to carefully avoid the other contacts near this if you try yourself!) and then I returned home to reassemble the machine.
The results are great! its running like new, battery is charging (at a much faster rate than before the fix), and all is well (writing from the XPS right now).
So for those of you considering gettin your M1210 working again - check into this issue and see if you cant get it fixed following my steps!
heres a helpful link:
http://ahwee.com/how-to-disassemble-laptop-dell-xps-m1210 - this is how to disassemble the laptop
http://getsatisfaction.com/dell/topics/xps_m1210_battery_wont_charge_and_ac_adaptor_not_recognized - this is the page where I found another M1210 owner with the exact same problem with his motherboard (its about halfway down in the posts and has an image of the fried loop - from the user "Homecinemaman" )
MD_Reptile
QUICK UPDATE(Jan 29): no problems since the fix! glad to report its been running great all around - but i do have issues with the logitech camera, but oh well everything else seems to function well, I consider my XPS fixed! hope others can benifit from my trials with this machine.
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January 26th, 2011 12:00
Dont mind the double post - Heres the update on my M1210
Unfortunetely after a while of charging i had a problem running off AC power anymore, and found that things werent as easy as they seemed. Went ahead and broke down the laptop again, and read up online about gettin the mobo out of it. Found this thread about a problem with another m1210 that had a burnt chip just next to where the AC jack connects to the Mobo on the bottom, and decided I would check if my M1210 suffered from this issue. upon inspection, it indeed had this very same "Loop" (an my tech described it) chip broken on the board. So off I went to get the Mobo soldered back together, and while doing that fix, the tech noticed a bad connection from the AC Jack itself! After laying some solder on both the Jack (on the bottom side of Mobo where the pins come out) and some more to connect where the loop had previously been (some solder on each bit from the board and a thick wire running across them both - be sure to carefully avoid the other contacts near this if you try yourself!) and then I returned home to reassemble the machine.
The results are great! its running like new, battery is charging (at a much faster rate than before the fix), and all is well (writing from the XPS right now).
So for those of you considering gettin your M1210 working again - check into this issue and see if you cant get it fixed following my steps!
heres a helpful link:
http://ahwee.com/how-to-disassemble-laptop-dell-xps-m1210 - this is how to disassemble the laptop
http://getsatisfaction.com/dell/topics/xps_m1210_battery_wont_charge_and_ac_adaptor_not_recognized - this is the page where I found another M1210 owner with the exact same problem with his motherboard (its about halfway down in the posts and has an image of the fried loop - from the user "Homecinemaman" )
MD_Reptile
QUICK UPDATE(Jan 29): no problems since the fix! glad to report its been running great all around - but i do have issues with the logitech camera, but oh well everything else seems to function well, I consider my XPS fixed! hope others can benifit from my trials with this machine.