Broken HDMI Port P6860FX

Hey all,

I busted my hdmi port on my P6860FX Any suggestions on replacing it? Could I solder on a new one or am I SOL?

Is there any place I could get a new board?

 

damn how did that happen?

 

it was dark and a friend had plugged in an hdmi cable unbeknown to me. I went to grab it and it snapped off one of the contact pins in the port.

 

Good News,

Turns out one of the pins wasn't busted off just horribly mangled and pressed against the back of the port. I spent all of Saturday with a very small flat head screw driver, some epoxy, and an exacto knife trying to get it working, and this morning I was able to plug my TV into the port and it worked, sound and everything.

Just in case this happens to anyone else this is how you fix it. First, don't get overzealous with the epoxy. If you get too much on there and it works its way back far enough on the pins it will render the port useless.

Second, get yourself some nail polish remover with alkaline in it. You will need this in case you do what I said not to do above.

Use a very small flat head screwdriver to slowly and carefully bend the pin back into shape by pressing it gently onto the metal housing of the port. Once its as straight as you can get it press it back down onto the plastic bit in the middle of the port and make sure it fits into the indentation that it popped out of.

Next take the epoxy, mix it up, and put a little tiny bit of it on the end of the exacto knife. make sure its not a blob because that will be hard to control. You want to slowly spread it on, as if you were using a butterknife, to the bottom of the pin (not the top) and the indention in the platic bit that it popped out of.

Next flip the laptop so that the bad pin is facing down towards the ground. Position the top of the exacto knife under it and then slowly release the exacto knife so that gravity causes it to push up on the pin. If you do this carefully the heavy handle of the exacto knife will force the pin upwards and hold it in place.

Watch whatever is left of the epoxy you mixed up and see when its nearly all dried. Then remove the exacto knife and the pin should stay in place. Don't wait until the epoxy is 100% dry because some of it will drip onto the knife and if that happens when you go to remove it it will pull on the pin and potentially dislodge it again.

Finally, if the pin looks secure, mix up a new batch of epoxy and gently coat the very end of the pin with a thin layer that wraps around the metal and the plastic. This will firmly hold the pin in place once dried.

I let all of this dry for about 6 hours.

If you mesh up use the nail polish remover with a Q-tip and then use the exacto knife to scrape away the epoxy and start again.

Hope that helps some one.