9 Dec
2024
9 Dec
'24
7:02 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 06:19:16 -0800
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
As far as wear-and-tear goes: Actually, I use that
port the least of the
three. [...]
So it's especially a mystery while that last, or third port, would have
somehow gone bad, as I use is much less often; although, when I do use it, it
maybe gets more wear. Or maybe, because it's open, something could have got
into it ... dust, insects? But I did open up that laptop already, and nothing
appears to be amiss.
If it's something like a tiny dab of badly-applied solder on a surface-mount
connector somewhere having failed under the stress of repeated
heating-cooling cycles, it would be hard to spot just by looking. Factory
defects happen, unfortunately.
Do check the contacts inside the port for excessive filth or physical damage
if you haven't already, but it doesn't seem likely that that would make the port
fail with a device already connected to it, unless something got jostled.
E. Liddell