How to Make, Repair and Upgrade Laptop and Notebook Power Supplies, AC/DC Adapters and Power Jacks

How to make, repair and upgrade power supplies for laptops and notebooks. Links to free do-it-yourself instructions. If you have written a do-it-yourself guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

Apple iBook (1. Generation)	How to repair the power connector (in French).
Apple iBook G3 Clamshell	DC power plug disassembly.
Apple iBook/PowerBook	Power jack and power supply schematics.
Apple iBook G4, PowerBook G4	Repair your macintosh power cord: Tired of Mighty Apple charging you beaucoup $$$ for those badly designed power adapters which break all the time? Repair it yourself.
Apple PowerBook 5300	Disassembly and power connector repair.
Apple PowerBook Duo	Overclocking, cleaning the keyboard, changing the CAPS LOCK light to a red LED, adding a hard drive activity light, adding a ADB port in place of the modem, repairing the AC adapter port.
Apple PowerBook G3 Kanga	How to fix the powersource's connector by soldering..
Apple Powerbook G3 Wallstreet	Fix loose sound ports, display hinge and the power plug using a tongue depressor. Replacing the original hard disk with a bigger one.
Apple PowerBook G4	65W AC power adapter repair.
Apple PowerBook G4	Inside the 65W power supply, an attempt to repair.
ASUS L2400D	How to fix a loose power supply plug. Disassembly for removal of mainboard and for resoldering.
COMPAQ Contura 4/25cx	Pictures from inside the laptop. Voltages on the power supply interface and battery pinout. Circuit diagram of the 4 MB memory module. Circuit diagram of the 16 MB memory module. Motherboard outline with chip product numbers.
Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S-2020	How to repair a bad AC jack, includes disassembly instructions and pictures.
HP Pavilion ZT 1141S	How to fix a broken power-connector. Disassembly photos and instructions.
IBM ThinkPad A21p	Solar Powered Wireless Laptop Web Server.
IBM ThinkPad X20/X21	Power supply cable grounding (earthing) (in Korean).
Toshiba Satellite A70, A75, M35X	Failed power jack workaround.
Toshiba Satellite M35X/M30X	Does your laptop randomly shut off and not fully charge the battery? Fixing a power jack issue.
Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000	How to fix the power on connector.
Zenith 8088	Hardwired power supply to the mother board, bypassing the battery equipment.
N.N.	How to power a notebook with solar energy (in German).
N.N.	Laptop power system overview and troubleshooting.
N.N.	A cool portable AC adapter.