[Kit27]

Oh dear, oh dear.

I've just pulled the (admittedly a bit battered) power chord out of my iBook G4 and - to my horror - it's left the end of the middle bit, the stalk if you like, inside the iBook's power socket. In other words the gold plug bit has come adrift from the power chord plug and stayed inside the iBook!

Now this would be fine if plugging in what's left of the power socket still made a power connection, but, sadly, it doesn't. The green light on the socket does come on, but the iBook insists it's running off battery and definitely doesn't recognise any power input, nomatter how much you wiggle the plug about.

This is, obviously, bad news. Anybody got any goood ideas? It seems I'm going to have to buy a new power chord, but presumably that may well not work if there's still a bit of the old one inside the iBook.

Any help or suggestions would be very, very much appreciated. Thanks very much in advance. (And, yes, I'm a few months outside warranty).

Sigh.

Kit

[tooki]

You'll need a new power cord, and you'll need to extract the broken-off piece. You can do this VERY CAREFULLY using a toothpick or matchstick with a TINY droplet of superglue on the end.

tooki

[Kit27]

Thanks very much for the tip.

I just spoke to a technician who reckons it'd take him 1.5 hours at £60/hour to strip it down and get the piece out. So, yeah, I guess trying the match-stick technique could be worth it.

*Such* an annoying thing to happen just before Christmas.