You can just use a can of air once a month, and then you will never get any build-up. If the fans and heatsink have never been cleaned and are already clogged, you will need to disassemble the entire machine and remove the fans, and blow them out with air. The best practice is to never let it get like that.
Um, yeah - why wouldn't you do this regularly, man? Not having a go at you personally but so many people think a gaming laptop is kind of like an iPad in terms of care and servicing - in other words, zero.
This is why I recommend temp apps to people when they get a brand new computer and note what's the base line and the highest temp it goes to. This way if for some reason when you start your computer and it's 10 degrees higher than usual and it's like this consistently, it's time to clean out your fans. I dumbed it down to this cause not everyone is tech savvy. I got an Alienware myself and when I noticed it ran close to 60C when I was idle when it's temps were usually around 45C, I knew I had forgotten to clean my fans. I usually clean them every 3 to 6 months. Another good video. Only recently subbed, I don't understand it all but I get the gist of it. It's digestible info.
I've watched a few, and subbed... the principles are basically the same as when I was doing electronics service/repairs, 43 years ago, but-wow, the tools you have now, the way you use them, and the knowledge, and experience you've got... Cheers-
All my computers are in the office. Don’t game on your bed with your skin cells. Don’t game on some lounge with all your skin or your lap. If you absolutely must get a gaming laptop buy one that has an ifixit guide or freely available technician documentation so 1. you know how to open it enough to clean 2. Can see before you buy it how easy it is to clean. 3. Set a reminder in your chores app to actually do this. The expense, lack of performance per dollar and awful repairability should render “gaming laptops” so niche your boss buys them for work or something. Never in a million years does the cost benefit stack up for these things.
I'm definitely cleaning my laptop and desktop this weekend. I'm long overdue for that. While I'm at it, I'll probably repaste the laptop and my desktop CPU and GPU. Thanks for the great content! I'm learning a lot from you.
I love watching these. I love repairing small appliances and have been doing it for 39 years back when we replaced elements in toasters and kettles rather than throwing them away. I don't know computers enough to try but I would never buy Alianwear from what I have seen and looking at the shoddy soldering confirms my lack of interest. In my day we would call that a Friday build.
And that is why my laptop is a business machine. It's fast enough, and I can get it apart to clean it in a trice because it's designed to be serviceable. And it's rather pretty. And I have HWInfo telling me what my temps are at all times on my taskbar.
Nah man. I’ve used my laptop in bed for years. Over blankets and other covers. It’s has never been this bad. The person who owns it it’s just a nasty person
the boards that don't end up being fixable, do you keep them as parts boards, or is that not feasible due to the possibility of not knowing what all got damaged?
I went through 4 motherboard on this model had a lot of dead cpu when under warranty.. happened again out of warranty bought a repaired motherboard on ebay and never had any issue for the past 3 years..
Wow crazy! 😮 This customer said that had it replaced in 2021, but the laptop is now more than 7 years old. I think it had a pretty good run, considering.
@dellpartspeople i dont know what the tech did on the motherboard maybe better mosfet (i dont know if it help prevent the voltage short to cpu/gpu) but it last way longer than all the other dell provided
Discovered your channel recently, love it, thanks. Is the CPU non-replaceable/wouldn't likely fix any other issues, hence only fix is whole motherboard replacement?
Are the workstations like the Dell Precision better built than the gaming laptops? It seems like failures are much less common among higher end workstation laptops. Any laptop is going to fail if there is inadequate cooling from dust building up, but it does feel like the Precision and similar laptops seem to last longer. They are more conservatively clocked and seem to be better built, despite also having high end CPUs and GPUs. It would follow the same trend of business laptops lasting longer than consumer laptops.
It’s also likely that the sort of person putting down money on a tool that makes them money, is probably going to take better care of their machine than many gamers.
How do you clean these things out if accessing the fans requires you to remove the motherboard? Are Alienware owners just expected to fully remove their motherboard, clean out the fans and repaste everything every half year or so?
You can just use a can of air once a month, and then you will never get any build-up. If the fans and heatsink have never been cleaned and are already clogged, you will need to disassemble the entire machine and remove the fans, and blow them out with air. The best practice is to never let it get like that.
@dellpartspeople I was under the impression that blowing compressed air into the fans was not good because 1) it would just blow the dust deeper into the fans and heat sink and 2) the fans could be damaged via the air causing the fan baldes to spin in an uncontrolled manner.
These cassini machines all seem to go the same way. Those MOSFETs fail to the CPU and take the CPU out. Northridge fix has several videos showing the exact same thing. Makes me think whoever made those MOSFETs had a bad batch.
1:15 That amount of screws will drive me crazy. Why not get those "pen type" motorised screwdriver? Would save you lots of time and wrist, not to mention your sanity.
I have one, but I find that they do not have enough torque to start unscrewing the screw, so I end up having to manually start it anyway. They also are not that fast, at least not the one I have.
When it comes to laptops, even more so modern ones aren't known for their ease of disassembly, so I don't think it's fair to blame the user for neglect, I can get into them fine and I'm still kind of annoyed to do it unless the bottom comes right off with little to no clips.
I also have a 2+1 blink code on a inspiron 3582 which points to a cpu failure, also the caps lock key light is stuck on. It was initially dead with a broken power jack and socket which I replaced and it successfully charged. I'm pretty sure it got fried due to a short but at least I'm using it to test and learn stuff.
Surely its not impossible to put something between the VRM and the CPU that'll block voltages past a certain safety threshold? Is it not doable or is it again just Dell cheaping out?
How much does a motherboard normally run for one of these? Don't normally work on Dells, but Lenovo's, lol. I know I that when I had replace a motherboard in a Thinkpad T480, due to an aftermarket charger blowing up the MOSFETs, and processor, it was like $50 for the I7, $35 for the I5 motherboard(8th gen core architecture, the minimum to run win 11, lol) I used the I7 board, this was a "free" laptop that someone gave me.
The lack of any protection circuitry, such as "crowbar circuit", tvs, zener, mov's, proofs how much the manufacturer cares about quality and durability! An additional 2 USD in components, could've saved the CPU from being fried! However, when they produce 10 million devices like this, those 2 USD in components become 20 million USD of lost revenue. So it was deemed to expensive by the executives, who would rather invest some additional millions into their mansions and yachts! Regardless of this decisions being detrimental to the products quality or Alienwares branding!
Update, I talked to the customer, and he went ahead with the motherboard replacement. The CPU cannot be changed because it is part of the board. So, I now have the laptop up and running. The new motherboard cost $400, plus my labor, of course.
-Finding a reliable cpu (Intel won’t sell you one) -Procuring the tools and stencils and optimizing them to work properly (Rossmann has some videos where he does this) Not easy.
@@dellpartspeople nice to see this on old day was so much easy to change cpu or gpu this days is no option of this . and the new laptops this days have 1 ram slot other one is soldered ram
Even among repair techs, the tools to perform a BGA rework tend tombe bespoke for each CPU gen, and hard to come by, not to mention how extremely labor intensive it is (not necessarily difficult, but quite monotonous to scan through literal thousands of solder balls).
Those mosfets aren’t overly expensive. He may have taken a known good one off a donor board as well , especially because he knew it was more than likely toast.
What is the beat method of cleaning out the dust, lint, etc., from the inside of a laptop computer? I have used can air through the air vents in the past but I read that that is a bad way because it only just movies the dust, lint, etc., around. Should the laptop computer be opened up and then use canned air to remove the stuff? Also, how often should the cleaning be done? Thanks.
Valid question. Blaming the owner here, but having taken my Dell Workstation apart for a repasting I don't ever want to work on a f***** Dell again. My old HP Elitebook I can strip and clean in five minutes, that Dell was a plastic prying/cracking two hour ordeal.
@@Referee006 I also have Acer aspire 7, have it cleaned and thermal paste replaced by a local PC repair shop. It made a 10 degrees Celsius difference.
basically used laptop will cost like cpu replacement + job payment. the only exception would be using an engineer cpu that was used in factory for testing, they cost two times less, the only problem is in finding a trusted seller, they are sold in China and ofc many sellers are scammers.
They don't make it easy for an end user that wouldn't know how to open up the machine without breaking it to clean the fans. That's intentional. Let's assign the blame where it lies: the manufacturers. They could easily make the machines much more user serviceable but that would cut into future sales.
Hi, have question, When CPU's ect are toast and techs have to swap out boards, what happens to problem with Win Keys? Do you sell them another key or use Transfer software to migrate everything to another board but that new board has to have a diff key or old one already? Lot of time and expense to do this?
You can just use a can of air once a month, and then you will never get any build-up. If the fans and heatsink have never been cleaned and are already clogged, you will need to disassemble the entire machine and remove the fans, and blow them out with air. The best practice is to never let it get like that.
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Next time, short the vrm outputs and inject current. That will light up the shorted chip. Also, getting a better camera will boost your ability to gauge if a cpu or gpu or other chips like that is shot. You need better resolution and framerate is a big bonus. Even with the board powered normally or by injecting voltage in the vrm rails (0.8-1.7) After looking at a few good and dead cpus, you will know at a glance, next time.
don't think it's entirely owner's neglect. I had exact same laptop and thermal pad not thick enough to touch the mosfets or not placed properly in factory. I was able to fix with K5-pro thermal pad-paste. had Precisions with way more dust running years without problem
I remember once having a PC that was very noisy. When I opened it up there was a fist sized lump of nicotine infused brown dust. Looked like a hamster had died in it. I've seen some things...
I have a Dell L701x Xps17.. I need a subwoofer.. This laptop has(had) the best sound of any laptop i ever owned and now it sounds like it's farting from the sub.. I can't find one anywhere. (UK).
you don't need the greatest technician that's ever lived, you need the "GOOCH COLLECTOR" with that amount of gooch, dirt, dust and grimes. Am surprised you didn't turned to a skeleton yet with that. 🤣, besides you got this the greatest DELL technician that's ever lived.
Well, any gaming laptop will have issues with heat. We only repair Dell and Alienware laptops here, which is why you see so many videos about damaged ones. But if you watch the NorthridgeFix channel, he fixes a lot of ASUS, MSI, and ACER laptops.
@@dellpartspeople I'm just kidding :) . I do know that many gaming laptops have heat issues - I used to own one myself, so I've experienced it firsthand.
I felt your comment about the board being the "best design ever" as I helped a friend replace a failing, noisy GPU fan in his AlienWare laptop. When I looked up the service manual, realized it had to be fully disassembled to replace the fans, I advised my friend to buy both fans because the other one was likely not far behind and I had zero interest in taking it apart again. What's that USBC power supply you're using? I want something like that with a display and robust design. Those inline testers you can get on Amazon are typically poor quality, have the output cable permanently attached, and are not trustworthy that they are wired properly for high current.
I suddenly have an urge to clean out the heatsinks on my Alienware laptop. 😬
You can just use a can of air once a month, and then you will never get any build-up. If the fans and heatsink have never been cleaned and are already clogged, you will need to disassemble the entire machine and remove the fans, and blow them out with air. The best practice is to never let it get like that.
@@dellpartspeople Whats ok average temps on dell i7, 7240 laptop? Cheers. (an old workhorse that just keeps on)
@@EmeraldHill-vo1cs Hey I got one of those and they're awesome.
Um, yeah - why wouldn't you do this regularly, man? Not having a go at you personally but so many people think a gaming laptop is kind of like an iPad in terms of care and servicing - in other words, zero.
@@Blitterbug What you talkin bout willis?
I own one of those things, Im pretty sure the fans were specially designed to attract as much dust as possible.
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Greatest AlienDell technician that's ever lived
This is why I recommend temp apps to people when they get a brand new computer and note what's the base line and the highest temp it goes to. This way if for some reason when you start your computer and it's 10 degrees higher than usual and it's like this consistently, it's time to clean out your fans. I dumbed it down to this cause not everyone is tech savvy.
I got an Alienware myself and when I noticed it ran close to 60C when I was idle when it's temps were usually around 45C, I knew I had forgotten to clean my fans. I usually clean them every 3 to 6 months. Another good video. Only recently subbed, I don't understand it all but I get the gist of it. It's digestible info.
And it's so simple to do to get the temps shown in your taskbar [or at least it is on Win 10].
I've watched a few, and subbed... the principles are basically the same as when I was doing electronics service/repairs, 43 years ago, but-wow, the tools you have now, the way you use them, and the knowledge, and experience you've got... Cheers-
All my computers are in the office. Don’t game on your bed with your skin cells.
Don’t game on some lounge with all your skin or your lap.
If you absolutely must get a gaming laptop buy one that has an ifixit guide or freely available technician documentation so
1. you know how to open it enough to clean
2. Can see before you buy it how easy it is to clean.
3. Set a reminder in your chores app to actually do this.
The expense, lack of performance per dollar and awful repairability should render “gaming laptops” so niche your boss buys them for work or something.
Never in a million years does the cost benefit stack up for these things.
I'm definitely cleaning my laptop and desktop this weekend. I'm long overdue for that. While I'm at it, I'll probably repaste the laptop and my desktop CPU and GPU. Thanks for the great content! I'm learning a lot from you.
I love watching these. I love repairing small appliances and have been doing it for 39 years back when we replaced elements in toasters and kettles rather than throwing them away. I don't know computers enough to try but I would never buy Alianwear from what I have seen and looking at the shoddy soldering confirms my lack of interest. In my day we would call that a Friday build.
Don't forget the Monday builds too - where you have to re-train everyone... 🤣🤣
And that is why my laptop is a business machine. It's fast enough, and I can get it apart to clean it in a trice because it's designed to be serviceable. And it's rather pretty.
And I have HWInfo telling me what my temps are at all times on my taskbar.
Who wants to bet that this was used on a bed, or the owner has a really dirty table?
Nah man. I’ve used my laptop in bed for years. Over blankets and other covers. It’s has never been this bad. The person who owns it it’s just a nasty person
Bed or bare skin the amount of fine dust here means it’s 99.99% human skin cells.
the boards that don't end up being fixable, do you keep them as parts boards, or is that not feasible due to the possibility of not knowing what all got damaged?
I went through 4 motherboard on this model had a lot of dead cpu when under warranty.. happened again out of warranty bought a repaired motherboard on ebay and never had any issue for the past 3 years..
Wow crazy! 😮 This customer said that had it replaced in 2021, but the laptop is now more than 7 years old. I think it had a pretty good run, considering.
@dellpartspeople i dont know what the tech did on the motherboard maybe better mosfet (i dont know if it help prevent the voltage short to cpu/gpu) but it last way longer than all the other dell provided
Great Vid. I have a 15 R2 and taking a vacuum to it real soon!
They they blame it on the manufacturer... I've seen it many times.
we need a lot of vedios like this one sir , really its intersting and we love yours longs vedios with the explications of this problems .
fixing dells has got to be one of the most cursed jobs ever.
Discovered your channel recently, love it, thanks. Is the CPU non-replaceable/wouldn't likely fix any other issues, hence only fix is whole motherboard replacement?
Absolut love this video 🤩! Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Are the workstations like the Dell Precision better built than the gaming laptops? It seems like failures are much less common among higher end workstation laptops.
Any laptop is going to fail if there is inadequate cooling from dust building up, but it does feel like the Precision and similar laptops seem to last longer. They are more conservatively clocked and seem to be better built, despite also having high end CPUs and GPUs.
It would follow the same trend of business laptops lasting longer than consumer laptops.
Any clown that buys "gaming" laptops earns all that they receive.
It’s also likely that the sort of person putting down money on a tool that makes them money, is probably going to take better care of their machine than many gamers.
always take care of your notebook
then it will last long long time
great repair boss 😊😊😊
How do you clean these things out if accessing the fans requires you to remove the motherboard? Are Alienware owners just expected to fully remove their motherboard, clean out the fans and repaste everything every half year or so?
You can just use a can of air once a month, and then you will never get any build-up. If the fans and heatsink have never been cleaned and are already clogged, you will need to disassemble the entire machine and remove the fans, and blow them out with air. The best practice is to never let it get like that.
@dellpartspeople I was under the impression that blowing compressed air into the fans was not good because 1) it would just blow the dust deeper into the fans and heat sink and 2) the fans could be damaged via the air causing the fan baldes to spin in an uncontrolled manner.
@@Positive916 For the latter you're usually supposed to hold the fan blades in place when cleaning with air.
This video gives makes me want to open up my computer and give everything a good cleaning.
Nice job very nice job! I think we have all forgotten to stick the memory sticks back in after everything was put back together.
Or, if fixing desktop replacing the power cord to the back of the power supply, or turning the switch on the p/s (if it has one) to on... :)
These cassini machines all seem to go the same way. Those MOSFETs fail to the CPU and take the CPU out. Northridge fix has several videos showing the exact same thing. Makes me think whoever made those MOSFETs had a bad batch.
That amount of dust is many times caused, in my experience, by those people who never turn their PC off.
Yep, 24/7 is for desktop machines laptops just aren't suitable for it
Forgive me if this is a very noob question but why do manufacturers not use fuses on outputs of mosfets like that?
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That amount of screws will drive me crazy. Why not get those "pen type" motorised screwdriver? Would save you lots of time and wrist, not to mention your sanity.
I have one, but I find that they do not have enough torque to start unscrewing the screw, so I end up having to manually start it anyway. They also are not that fast, at least not the one I have.
Ratchets are good.
When it comes to laptops, even more so modern ones aren't known for their ease of disassembly, so I don't think it's fair to blame the user for neglect, I can get into them fine and I'm still kind of annoyed to do it unless the bottom comes right off with little to no clips.
I also have a 2+1 blink code on a inspiron 3582 which points to a cpu failure, also the caps lock key light is stuck on. It was initially dead with a broken power jack and socket which I replaced and it successfully charged. I'm pretty sure it got fried due to a short but at least I'm using it to test and learn stuff.
Surely its not impossible to put something between the VRM and the CPU that'll block voltages past a certain safety threshold? Is it not doable or is it again just Dell cheaping out?
Thank you for making these videos!!!!!!!!!!
How much does a motherboard normally run for one of these? Don't normally work on Dells, but Lenovo's, lol. I know I that when I had replace a motherboard in a Thinkpad T480, due to an aftermarket charger blowing up the MOSFETs, and processor, it was like $50 for the I7, $35 for the I5 motherboard(8th gen core architecture, the minimum to run win 11, lol) I used the I7 board, this was a "free" laptop that someone gave me.
The lack of any protection circuitry, such as "crowbar circuit", tvs, zener, mov's, proofs how much the manufacturer cares about quality and durability!
An additional 2 USD in components, could've saved the CPU from being fried!
However, when they produce 10 million devices like this, those 2 USD in components become 20 million USD of lost revenue. So it was deemed to expensive by the executives, who would rather invest some additional millions into their mansions and yachts! Regardless of this decisions being detrimental to the products quality or Alienwares branding!
Why do you offering to replace entire motherboard instead of replacing burned cpu?
You should make more consecutive videos about repair ❤
if the cpu is only dead why not change it for new one if is the price is not to high
That's the problem finding it and the price
Update, I talked to the customer, and he went ahead with the motherboard replacement. The CPU cannot be changed because it is part of the board. So, I now have the laptop up and running. The new motherboard cost $400, plus my labor, of course.
-Finding a reliable cpu (Intel won’t sell you one)
-Procuring the tools and stencils and optimizing them to work properly (Rossmann has some videos where he does this)
Not easy.
@@dellpartspeople nice to see this on old day was so much easy to change cpu or gpu this days is no option of this . and the new laptops this days have 1 ram slot other one is soldered ram
Even among repair techs, the tools to perform a BGA rework tend tombe bespoke for each CPU gen, and hard to come by, not to mention how extremely labor intensive it is (not necessarily difficult, but quite monotonous to scan through literal thousands of solder balls).
The kind of stuff I want to learn
Mee too!
Two questions
#1 if chip replacement didnt work, do you put back the old broken chip?
#2 how much does the chip cost?
Those mosfets aren’t overly expensive. He may have taken a known good one off a donor board as well , especially because he knew it was more than likely toast.
Is that CPU obsolete? Can't be swapped with crossed fingers?
I take the back off at least once a year and clean the fans...
What is the beat method of cleaning out the dust, lint, etc., from the inside of a laptop computer? I have used can air through the air vents in the past but I read that that is a bad way because it only just movies the dust, lint, etc., around. Should the laptop computer be opened up and then use canned air to remove the stuff? Also, how often should the cleaning be done? Thanks.
Valid question. Blaming the owner here, but having taken my Dell Workstation apart for a repasting I don't ever want to work on a f***** Dell again. My old HP Elitebook I can strip and clean in five minutes, that Dell was a plastic prying/cracking two hour ordeal.
Thanks for your reply. I have an Acer laptop and I have had it for several years, and so it must be pretty dusty to awhile.
@@Referee006 I also have Acer aspire 7, have it cleaned and thermal paste replaced by a local PC repair shop. It made a 10 degrees Celsius difference.
Stupid question, but is a CPU replacement not possible? Or is it like waaay too many solder points?
basically used laptop will cost like cpu replacement + job payment. the only exception would be using an engineer cpu that was used in factory for testing, they cost two times less, the only problem is in finding a trusted seller, they are sold in China and ofc many sellers are scammers.
They don't make it easy for an end user that wouldn't know how to open up the machine without breaking it to clean the fans. That's intentional. Let's assign the blame where it lies: the manufacturers. They could easily make the machines much more user serviceable but that would cut into future sales.
Hi, have question, When CPU's ect are toast and techs have to swap out boards, what happens to problem with Win Keys? Do you sell them another key or use Transfer software to migrate everything to another board but that new board has to have a diff key or old one already? Lot of time and expense to do this?
If replaced with like mbd, should be no problem with the key.
How do you keep the fans and heat sinks clean?
You can just use a can of air once a month, and then you will never get any build-up. If the fans and heatsink have never been cleaned and are already clogged, you will need to disassemble the entire machine and remove the fans, and blow them out with air. The best practice is to never let it get like that.
Next time, short the vrm outputs and inject current. That will light up the shorted chip.
Also, getting a better camera will boost your ability to gauge if a cpu or gpu or other chips like that is shot.
You need better resolution and framerate is a big bonus.
Even with the board powered normally or by injecting voltage in the vrm rails (0.8-1.7)
After looking at a few good and dead cpus, you will know at a glance, next time.
Framerate as in 60? y/n?
@@EmeraldHill-vo1cs Needs to be over 200.
Ship it to me, I replace those cps I have 6700hq and 7700hq on my bench looking for a board.
don't think it's entirely owner's neglect. I had exact same laptop and thermal pad not thick enough to touch the mosfets or not placed properly in factory. I was able to fix with K5-pro thermal pad-paste. had Precisions with way more dust running years without problem
At this point, the laptop is 7 years old, and there was little to no airflow. I think the MOSFETs held on as long as they could.
what a pity plug in ac to many times didn't help cpu
The mobo is still in good shape. It just needs a replacement CPU.
Owner was so stupid not cleaning laptop fan 😂
That what happens when the cpu is soldred the entier motherboard get thrown
Today's new technology
Dust + cooling fan = a timing machine.
All computers manufacturers are doing this kind of business.
I remember once having a PC that was very noisy. When I opened it up there was a fist sized lump of nicotine infused brown dust. Looked like a hamster had died in it. I've seen some things...
Aww man, yeah we've seen (and smelt) it all here as well.
Sending it off to the Gooch Collector? 😆
The one and only ;-)
Nice video.
The most durable laptops are those without a dedicated GPU and with a 15W ULV CPU
I have a Dell L701x Xps17.. I need a subwoofer.. This laptop has(had) the best sound of any laptop i ever owned and now it sounds like it's farting from the sub.. I can't find one anywhere. (UK).
Hi, sorry we sold our last one of those in 2020. The p/n is 84TYW if that helps you find one. Best of luck!
Poor CPU 😔
you don't need the greatest technician that's ever lived, you need the "GOOCH COLLECTOR" with that amount of gooch, dirt, dust and grimes. Am surprised you didn't turned to a skeleton yet with that. 🤣, besides you got this the greatest DELL technician that's ever lived.
Making this comment early in the video. Probably a bad power connector for not taking proper care to plug unplug it.
*cues SalemTechSperts music*
I learn a lot just by watching your video. Don't buy dell's gaming laptops.
great logic man :D
Well, any gaming laptop will have issues with heat. We only repair Dell and Alienware laptops here, which is why you see so many videos about damaged ones. But if you watch the NorthridgeFix channel, he fixes a lot of ASUS, MSI, and ACER laptops.
@@dellpartspeople I'm just kidding :) . I do know that many gaming laptops have heat issues - I used to own one myself, so I've experienced it firsthand.
@@dellpartspeople Yep, seen him with a huge stack of acers. And samsung phone, power sockets.
i think the the cpu is fried
I felt your comment about the board being the "best design ever" as I helped a friend replace a failing, noisy GPU fan in his AlienWare laptop.
When I looked up the service manual, realized it had to be fully disassembled to replace the fans, I advised my friend to buy both fans because the other one was likely not far behind and I had zero interest in taking it apart again.
What's that USBC power supply you're using?
I want something like that with a display and robust design. Those inline testers you can get on Amazon are typically poor quality, have the output cable permanently attached, and are not trustworthy that they are wired properly for high current.
I was here👽
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This is cool
It has happened to me many times hahaha
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RIP
Wow! I hope that laptop owner got a _gnarly_ bill! 😅
Well, kind of. He ended up getting the motherboard replaced, so now he has a working laptop again, but that wasn't cheap.