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To prevent damage to the DC input jack you need a plastic wire clip and one or two small plastic tie wraps. To Start have the plastic wire clip in hand and you may need to pry open wire clip a little to fit the diameter of your power cable into the clip. Then find a suitable place on the laptop to place the wire clip that won’t interferes with other functions on the laptop or be in the way when you open and close laptop lid.
When ready remove protection paper from adhesive side of wire clip and stick clip on to laptop.
With power jack cord plugged in laptop slip cord into clip leaving some slack in cord between DC Power Jack input and wire clip. Now with a marker, mark power cord just before it enters wire clip on side of cord closes to DC power jack input.
At this point remove the cord and place the small cable tie on the section of the cord where marked, pull cable tie tight so it will not slide up or down cord. You may need to use needle nose or other pliers to be sure it is tight and will not move. When you are sure the tie wrap is secure and will not move you can then clip or cut the unused part of the cable tie. Insert the cord back into the clip.
Now I have a Warning and please read it.
The information here is made to be used to help reduce or prevent damage to Laptop DC Power input jacks when light or medium jerks or yanks are applied to the power cord. Heavy Jerks or pulls on power cord could result in Damage to laptop (example yanking power cord so hard laptop may fall of a table and hit floor or other such object). The writer of this article bears no responsibility for any damage to any laptop computer or computers or any other device that use information in this article for any reason.
Roy Lawrence has 13 years as computer repair specialist technician Has many years in computer hardware as well as software experience. Prior to computer specialist Roy work as a computer and high voltage laser specialist technician and prior to laser work was avionics communication electronics technician.
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