Laptop Charging Port Repair Vienna

From €89 for a Windows notebook, covering the socket, the soldering work and six months of warranty. If only the power adapter is dead, that alone is €59. A MacBook charging board is a fixed €189. Where inside the band your machine lands depends on whether the socket sits on a cable harness or is soldered to the mainboard. The 25 EUR diagnostic check is waived on repair.

Because on a MacBook the charging connector is not a separate socket but part of a small board carrying the Thunderbolt or MagSafe circuitry, and that whole assembly is the spare part. Reaching it means removing the base, disconnecting the battery and freeing the cooling on some models. The fixed price for that work is €189, against a Windows socket that frequently unplugs from a short harness and starts at €89.

Almost certainly yes, and it is worth acting on quickly. Play in the connector means the contact surfaces no longer meet cleanly, so every small movement interrupts the current and produces a tiny arc that burns the surface further. That raises resistance and generates heat right where the socket is anchored to the board. Renewing it costs €89. Waiting until the board pads lift turns it into a considerably larger repair.

The check is 25 EUR and it comes off the invoice as soon as you approve any repair. A fair number of machines arrive suspected of a broken socket and leave with a new adapter at €59 or a new battery instead, and in those cases you get the separate price before anything happens. Where liquid has been in the socket the diagnosis is 49 EUR, because the machine is stripped completely.

Hold the power button for fifteen to twenty seconds to force the machine off, then plug in a charger you know is good. Watch the small light next to the socket: if it stays dark, no power is arriving and the fault is in the adapter, the cable or the port. A deeply discharged battery looks the same, so leave it on mains for ten minutes before deciding anything.

By measuring each one rather than swapping parts until something works. We put the adapter under load, because a supply can read correct voltage with no cable attached and collapse the moment current is drawn. Then the socket is checked for play, burnt contacts and a bent centre pin. Finally the charging circuit on the board is measured. That order is why the quote you get is a figure and not a guess.

We renew the socket itself wherever the construction allows, which is the majority of cases. On machines where the connector sits directly on the mainboard, that means desoldering a multi-pin part under a microscope without lifting the surrounding pads. Selling a complete board because it is faster would multiply your bill for no benefit. If the board underneath really is damaged beyond a socket swap, you hear that plainly first.

Yes, and it is the better outcome. Each USB-C socket has its own connector and frequently its own small board, so one failing while the other charges proves the adapter and the charging circuit are healthy. We replace the dead side only. Until the part arrives, use the working port and stop forcing plugs into the broken one, because a bent pin inside the socket enlarges the job considerably.

A socket on a cable harness is done inside an hour. One soldered onto the mainboard takes two to four hours, because the board has to come out, be preheated and worked under a microscope. A Surface takes longest, since the display is heated out before the socket is even visible. Most machines go back the next working day when the connector for your model is on the shelf.

No. The storage drive stays in the machine and nothing is reinstalled or reset, so your files, programmes and saved logins come back exactly as they were. A current backup before any hardware work is still good practice. The only case where nobody can promise a clean result in advance is a board that has suffered liquid damage or long-term overheating around the charging circuit.

Often yes, but the clock is running. Leave the charger out and the machine switched off; powering it up drives current through wet contacts and spreads the damage. Corrosion around a charging connector is particularly stubborn because the pins carry the highest current in the machine. Board cleaning starts at €99 and the liquid diagnosis is 49 EUR. Rice and hairdryers achieve nothing except giving the corrosion more time.

Yes, from your flat, a shared apartment or an office reception. The zone price is €14.90, €17.90 or €18.90 depending on the district, and the return journey after the repair is already inside that figure. Please send the charger along with the machine, because testing your own adapter under load is one of the first measurements we make and it often shortens the whole diagnosis.

Yes, from anywhere in Austria, and the insured return shipping is part of the price. Pack the machine in a firm box with generous padding and put the power adapter and cable in with it, since that lets us rule out the cheapest fault immediately. Add a note describing whether the charge light reacts at all. We ring you with the price before any soldering iron is switched on.

Yes, at a slot booked in advance, in the 22nd district. We keep no walk-in counter with opening hours, because working by appointment means somebody is actually there and your machine goes onto the bench right away. The exact address arrives with the confirmation. Coming in person is never required, though: the courier and the postal route lead to the same workshop and the same prices.

Six months on the socket and on the soldering, valid across Austria including machines that arrived by post. If play returns, the connector stops taking a charge or the contact heats up again inside that window, we put it right at no cost to you. Fresh mechanical damage afterwards, such as a plug pulled sideways out of the socket, is not covered. Call us before you open the machine yourself.