Sony Vaio Fit 13A Charger Port Replacement Repair Guide

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• Back Cover
• 3 steps
• Fan
• 3 steps
• Charger Port
• 3 steps

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What you need

Step 1

              Back Cover               

• Starting with the laptop top-down, locate and remove the twelve 1mm Phillips #0 screws securing the back cover to the main body of the computer.

Starting with the laptop top-down, locate and remove the twelve 1mm Phillips #0 screws securing the back cover to the main body of the computer.

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Step 2

• Use the Plastic Opening Tools or Metal Spudger to carefully loosen back cover from the body of the computer.
• Be sure to avoid headphone jack when removing back cover by lifting cover away from computer and up.

Use the Plastic Opening Tools or Metal Spudger to carefully loosen back cover from the body of the computer.

Be sure to avoid headphone jack when removing back cover by lifting cover away from computer and up.

Step 3

• Lift off back cover to access inner components of computer.

Lift off back cover to access inner components of computer.

Step 4

              Fan               

• Remove the three 1mm Phillips #0 screws surrounding the fan.
• Loosen the three 1mm Phillips #0 screws. These screws will stay captive to the heatsink.

Remove the three 1mm Phillips #0 screws surrounding the fan.

Loosen the three 1mm Phillips #0 screws. These screws will stay captive to the heatsink.

Step 5

• Use tweezers to carefully unplug the fan connector.

Use tweezers to carefully unplug the fan connector.

Step 6

              Remove the Fan               

• Use the Plastic Opening Tool to gently remove the heat sink and fan assembly from the computer.
• Important: Follow the How to Apply Thermal Paste guide to replace the thermal paste before reassembling your device.

Use the Plastic Opening Tool to gently remove the heat sink and fan assembly from the computer.

Important: Follow the How to Apply Thermal Paste guide to replace the thermal paste before reassembling your device.

Step 7

              Charger Port               

• Remove 1mm screw using a Phillips Head #0 screwdriver.
• Remove two 3mm screws using a Phillips Head #1 screwdriver.

Remove 1mm screw using a Phillips Head #0 screwdriver.

Remove two 3mm screws using a Phillips Head #1 screwdriver.

Step 8

• Use tweezers to carefully remove the charger port cover.

Use tweezers to carefully remove the charger port cover.

Step 9

              Unplug the Port               

• Gently unplug charger port from motherboard using tweezers.

Gently unplug charger port from motherboard using tweezers.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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rkotomori - Aug 20, 2016

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Excellent instructions, thank you. Now all I need to do is overcome fear, buy some tools and magnifiers, knock on wood and go for it. But I think I’ll wait until I can no longer find the sweet spot.

patrickchughes - Oct 20, 2017

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Where can I buy the charge port?

Ben - Mar 17, 2018

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Hi Patrick

this is the same question I have. Did you managed to find one in the meantime ?

Or does anaybody know where to buy one ?

thanx for any help !

cheers

B

anthony rossetti - Aug 1, 2022

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Don’t even bother it will just fail again in a few weeks

I am going to try and redesign it

I already replaced mine and it just failed again

Not even a month later and it was very expensive and nearly impossible to find ,the design is faulty Sony should be sued for releasing this dangerous product

I have to hold it on the “sweet spot” the entire time I am using the computer and constantly reposition it

And it gets 🔥 HOT

Hot enough to burn my fingers

!#^& poor design and it never should have been released like this someone should have realized this this POS is a house fire waiting to happen

I misplaced the old one I took out but I plan on finding it and altering it to include a normal barrel jack instead

Or designing and 3D printing a housing for barrel jack and using the connector that plugs into the motherboard from the old one for the redesigned one

The changing the end on the charger as well ,since I already bought a couple of those before I realized it was the port ,the only solution would be to redesign it to be like normal barrel jack because it will just keep on failing