MSI 1651 power problem

I have a 1651 and have had it for over a year. Last night my wife dropped it and now it will not charge the battery. It will start up and run fine but only has about 60% battery life. I tried removing the battery with the power cord still plugged in and starting the laptop up and it will not do anything.
My thoughts are when she dropped it it caused the plug in the laptop to slide back or a connection to break. I am looking for other ideas or a possible solution to getting it fixed that I may be able to do myself.

If it involves removing the backing I will most likely need a detailed tear down on how to do this. I have only removed the access doors to see if I could get in and see what the problem may be and could see nothing, of course that does not give me much to look at.

Hate using my desktop or my kids Aspire One netbook(which I am using now).

 

Here is a guild on taking apart the notebook:
http://forum-en.msi.com/moderator/assembly-guides/MS-1651 Disassemble SOP.pdf

 

Is your problem something like this:
Chip level MS-1651-ID2 problem! S.O.S.!

 

Thanks for your immediate response. I will download the tear down for future use(now to remember what I did with my AS5).
Something happened when she dropped it, from the foot rest of the recliner to the floor. This is not the first time it has happened(being dropped) but the first time I have had issues with the power. And I was actually bragging the other day to a friend about how durable that laptop was, LOL.
I am hoping I do not run into problems like the other link you posted. Hope it is something simple I can do myself.

 

Got it fixed. My soldiering skills are limited.... actually none at all. I got a friend to soldier the power block back in place, it was dislodged a little.

I now need to look around for parts to fix the lid. it wants to bend and come apart when I open it. I think my friend broke something but not sure, might have been the fall that did it. Just strange, I never noticed it when I was fooling around with it the other day before discovering the power issue.

 

It is durable, i dropped my 1722 three times lol...

 

Well, the plastic broke off at the left hinge. By the way it broke I figured it was a hairline crack(from the fall) in the backing(panel A) and my wife or I never seen it and it just got weak and finally broke. Which panel B is also weak now in the bottom corner(right at the screen corner) and I figured the LCD bracket was getting the same way. I need to replace the keyboard as well. Previous drops had caused a couple keys to get knocked loose and now one is completely missing.

I do have a question that maybe somebody can help me with. I found a pretty good deal on a MSI GX630 that has the MB, video card, and heat sinks. I was wondering if this would be good to buy and swap all my goodies(MB and all other components I need) from my MS-1651(GX620) over to the GX630 case? I know the GX630 is a AMD MB but figured the case should be the same unless mounting screws or something like that were different.

If I buy the parts to fix mine from RK Computers it will be over $200 and the GX630 is a lot less than that.

 

Person already sold the GX630 that I had thought of buying, so back to square one and looking to buy parts from RK Computers.... Unless somebody on here has a spare GX620/ MS-1651 or one that will work to replace parts with cheap.
PM me if you got one or know where one is.

 

You know, even the new GX640 has the same chassis, so you might find some parts on ebay soon.

 

Thought a lot of the newer ones looked the same but thought I would ask before buying something and to see if somebody on here may have the parts I need.

 

Actually the GX640 chassis may be a bit different. The cover plate for one is definitely different. I know because I bought one from a gx630 on e-bay to mod it for my 640 but it will not fit because of the extra size of the 640's GPU heatsink. I even shaved it down with my dremel and it still wouldn't fit right.

 

Thanks Kosti for that information. Saves me from making a mistake. I will continue looking around for parts that are reasonably priced.

 

msdz do you need the red plastic caps that hide the LCD hinges? or the palm rest area.

I have the red caps the palm rest the bottom chassis and I think I still have the hinges.

 

It is not the hinge covers on the bottom, it is the LCD top.
The hinges may be actually good to have cause the hinge on the left side seems real stiff for some reason.
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Bottom left corner has the crack on this piece.
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I also need to replace this piece.
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I probably need to replace the LCD bracket as well.

I know I need to replace the keyboard too but figured it might be easier and cheaper to find a whole replacement to get all the parts. Maybe one with a bad MB or something. As of right now, that is harder to do than just buyig the parts outright from RK Computers.

 

I have an extra keyboard, but it has a broken F12 button. It still works but one of the tiny plastic clips under the button broke so it isn't perfect. You can probably repair it with a little epoxy. Otherwise it's perfect. Let me know if you want it. $20 shipped.

 

Kosti, that is the same problem with my keyboard now. It works but the little clip under the keys is broke. The F12 and the Print SC buttons are messed up on mine. Keyboard is not a real big deal right now since it is only cosmetic issues with it.
Thanks anyway.