hidden short circuit

[JorgeHernan]

Hello guys
I have a pcchips 789 with a soldered via smauel c3.The only mosfet in the vrm blew so i desoldered that mosfet and replaced with a irfz44.The psu blew too.When i turned the motherboard on the irfz44 blew too so desoldered the surrounding schottky diode and capacitors and still get a shortcircuit across the capacitor pads.I can not tell where the short circuit is coming from.Thank you

[Harvey]

Re: hidden short circuit

If the mosfet had shorted, its probably taken out the CPU too.

[kc8adu]

Re: hidden short circuit

yep.
its toast.
toss in scrap pile.