Oh, no, There's been a blackout. This could be because this gaming laptop was covered in black duct tape. But this customer brought in their laptop for a repair. They said they heard a pop and smelled smoke, and then the laptop went dark. Well, I could already tell that this Umm, Dell G5 is going to be a fun repair. Let's open up this heavily gamed machine and take a look inside. Well, okay. I can see a blown capacitor here. I will need to remove the board and get it under the microscope. It loo
ks like these capacitors are the only burnt components. These are near the input DC jack and handle a lot of power. On newer versions of this board, these ten micro farad ceramic capacitors were upgraded to fifteen microfarad electrolytic capacitors, like on this donor board. I'm going to upgrade them so he won't see this issue again. Okay. Now that they are replaced, moment of truth. SUCESS!
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