I have a Gateway Solo 1450 I use for programming. A few days ago, the thing kept kicking over the battery, flicking back and forth. One of the cats chomped on the power cord to the laptop a while ago, so I figured that was the culprit.
Last week I bought a new power supply for it. I plugged that in and while I have good voltage (checked with meter), the plug inside the laptop seems to be failing.
I noticed last week that the adaptor that plugs into that was getting very, very warm.
Any way to replace the part inside the laptop? Or is this thing a goner, minus replacing the whole motherboard?
It was a cheapie I bought second hand...I can salvage the data off the hard drive removing it and installing it elsewhere. But the little laptop was handy for running code and being the test unit.
Its way beyond warranty...just curious if this is fixable or not.
