Laptop is not charging

Hey guys. Yesterday I was using my laptop all day, it was charging fine. I went to bed last night and my laptop was not plugged in so it was not charging and ran out of juice this morning. I plugged it into the charger and nothing is happening. I had about 5 minutes left on the charge when I plugged it in and nothing was happening. It died a little bit later and now when its plugged in I cant turn my laptop on. Anyone know what I can do? BTW, my laptop is the MSI GT6XXX (I cant remember the last numbers) its black with red edges.

 

Try removing the battery and a/c adapter for 20min, before you reinstall them press the power button a few times. Then try to boot up.

 

Rampage1990
When you plug in the cord into the laptop does it feel lose like its not tight.
If so there could be a chance that you wore out the DC Jack and needs to replaced.

 

It does feel a bit loose. How much is a new one? Its kind of BS that it would wear out after only like 4 months of use...

 

Just had the same thing happen to my ms-1722. There is a place online that sells the jacks, but be prepared to take the entire motherboard out to get to it. Hopefully yours didn't get to the point that mine did(I think that mine shorted out and ruined the charging circuit, because it still doesn't charge even with the power wires soldered directly to the motherboard.

I have another machine on the way for parts, I'll report back my results when/if I can get it fixed.

Oh yeah, here's the place that has those jacks:

http://www.laptopjacks.com/product/MSI-Laptop-DC-Power-Jacks.html

 

No offense, but I only seem to see bad DC jack on laptop that are not taken care off properly.
I usually see about 3-5 laptops per month with bad DC jacks.

 

well I dont see how you can possibly not take care of a AC jack, you plug it in, and pull it out...

How hard is it to install a new jack? someone told me that you have to solder it on? ? Is that something that a computer repair place would do? Or should I try send in my laptop and have MSI fix it, but that might take a while and at college I dont have a while.

 

I've owned numerous laptops and had most of them much longer than this one without problems. FWIW mine has only left my living room 3 times, and certainly wasn't misused. The main problem I see with these ones is that the cord on the AC adaptor is a right angle cord, and that it is extremely thick. The thickness makes it much less flexible than most laptop cords, so any time it recieves any strain, this force is transfered all the way to the connector, rather than having a thinner, limper cord that just flexes. Keep in mind my jack, and the connector on the ac adaptor actually melted. Whether this was caused by the connector wearing out and not making a good connection or the connector simply not being able to handle the amount of current needed to charge the battery and run the laptop at the same time, I'm not sure. But I will say I'm not impressed with the design of this at all compared to other laptops I've owned.

 

It's soldered on to the motherboard. You need to remove pretty much everything to get at it. There are computer repair places that specialize in DC jack replacement, not sure if they charge a flat fee or not... never looked into it.