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Laptop charging ports aren't working anymore. Any way to fix at home? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by merthyr1831@lemmy.ml to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I've got a fairly new Lenovo Ideapad (14aph8) which up until yesterday charged just fine. Now the ports don't accept any charger at all, even their official one.

I've tried holding down the power button to dump static charge from the battery but at best I get maybe 2-3 seconds of it recognising the official charger before it goes dead again.

Is there a home fix or should I just reach out for warranty?

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Check with Lenovo. They had a large number of Thinkpads with bad usbc ports. They might cover it outside of warranty.

A really long time ago they had a bios bug where if you did a battery test it would never end the test and be stuck with a turned off charge port and a dead battery, with no way to turn the test off.