Litte black USB spacer?

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Hello All (sorry if this appears twice. I cancelled the first post, which OE
send prematurely)

This is a strange question, but here goes

I noticed on one of the two USB ports on my 9300 laptop, there's a little
black thing (spacer?) missing that seems to fit over the actual four USB
prongs. So the prongs are exposed. While the jack works, if I even slightly
more a USB cord/plug, the connection is lost or become intermittent because
there is nothing really to hold the plug against the prongs. (I have a USB
keyboard lamp that I use, and it flickers or doesn't work at all when in
this jack. Works fine in the other jack.) I can't imagine what happened here
except that the little black piece fell out. Anyone have an idea where
(whether) I can get a thing like this without having the ship the laptop for
a $300 repair? Has anyone ever heard of this coming out? Is it possible to
reinstall? I checked all my USB cords, and I don't see this thing stuck in
any of them.

Thanks for any ideas.


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Anthony Giorgianni

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Looking inside a USB socket or two the prong seems to be part of the socket
so maybe it snapped off somehow. If you're not happy dismantling the PC and
soldering on a new socket (I'm not sure I'd bother), how about a 2-or 4-way
unpowered hub to give you a few more sockets?
"Anthony Giorgianni" <pleasepostbacktothetgroup@postbacktogroup.invalid>
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> Hello All (sorry if this appears twice. I cancelled the first post, which
OE
> send prematurely)
>
> This is a strange question, but here goes
>
> I noticed on one of the two USB ports on my 9300 laptop, there's a little
> black thing (spacer?) missing that seems to fit over the actual four USB
> prongs. So the prongs are exposed. While the jack works, if I even
slightly
> more a USB cord/plug, the connection is lost or become intermittent
because
> there is nothing really to hold the plug against the prongs. (I have a USB
> keyboard lamp that I use, and it flickers or doesn't work at all when in
> this jack. Works fine in the other jack.) I can't imagine what happened
here
> except that the little black piece fell out. Anyone have an idea where
> (whether) I can get a thing like this without having the ship the laptop
for
> a $300 repair? Has anyone ever heard of this coming out? Is it possible to
> reinstall? I checked all my USB cords, and I don't see this thing stuck in
> any of them.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Anthony Giorgianni
>
> The return address for this post is fictitious. Please reply by posting
back
> to the newsgroup.
>
>
>
>
>

 

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Thanks Mark

Being a laptop, I'm not crazy taking it apart for this relatively small
problem. I was hoping that it snaps in somehow and easily replaced. Guess
I'm not that lucky :O) And yes, I was think about a hub as well, in case I
need the extra sockets some time.

Thanks again for the suggestions.
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Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

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"Mark Dunn" <markrhdunn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d8n7h9$om8$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> Looking inside a USB socket or two the prong seems to be part of the
socket
> so maybe it snapped off somehow. If you're not happy dismantling the PC
and
> soldering on a new socket (I'm not sure I'd bother), how about a 2-or
4-way
> unpowered hub to give you a few more sockets?
> "Anthony Giorgianni" <pleasepostbacktothetgroup@postbacktogroup.invalid>
> wrote in message
> news:eY%qe.312354$cg1.192024@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > Hello All (sorry if this appears twice. I cancelled the first post,
which
> OE
> > send prematurely)
> >
> > This is a strange question, but here goes
> >
> > I noticed on one of the two USB ports on my 9300 laptop, there's a
little
> > black thing (spacer?) missing that seems to fit over the actual four USB
> > prongs. So the prongs are exposed. While the jack works, if I even
> slightly
> > more a USB cord/plug, the connection is lost or become intermittent
> because
> > there is nothing really to hold the plug against the prongs. (I have a
USB
> > keyboard lamp that I use, and it flickers or doesn't work at all when in
> > this jack. Works fine in the other jack.) I can't imagine what happened
> here
> > except that the little black piece fell out. Anyone have an idea where
> > (whether) I can get a thing like this without having the ship the laptop
> for
> > a $300 repair? Has anyone ever heard of this coming out? Is it possible
to
> > reinstall? I checked all my USB cords, and I don't see this thing stuck
in
> > any of them.
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Anthony Giorgianni
> >
> > The return address for this post is fictitious. Please reply by posting
> back
> > to the newsgroup.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>