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My bios file needs to be 20S to get on the dell logo and it works fine, can anyone help me?
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So picked up this TV everything works but the backlight. I assumed it was going to be the backlight but it turns out the LED power board fuse is blown and it appears the MOSFET area is dead as usual like Samsungs.
These components are very different and I don't know how to find them. So asking if someone can help. Or knows anything about this.
You can see where my two fingers are a black puff under the gel they put down showing that something blew. Also the blue 331 caps are reading short and so are the legs of the components.
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Hi! First of all, since this is my first post, I wanted to say hello and thank you for years of supporting me in my little side business (more of a hobby). Until now i was able to find necessary sources here or there, but now I'd need some help.
I was handed a dead Asus B1402CBA that suffered liquid damage.
I tracked down the damaged components, removed all the capacitors in the affected area, and the short circuit is gone. The device now powers on and attempts to boot.
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Perhaps, someone could provide insight regarding the issue I am having with a Legion 5 15ACH6H laptop (Ryzen 7 5800H / RTX 3060)
The laptop came in with a blown charging ic BQ24780S. Pin 1,2,3 pads were ripped out. Also, the current sensing resistor on Pin 28 was showing over 200 ohms. I restored the damaged pads, replaced the ic chip and the current sensing resistor.
Computer is working but only on AC adapter or on the battery but not when they are both plugged. The AC adapter gets cut off and the machine runs on the battery alone. Interesting that in Windows the battery charge...
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