Hello badcaps community,
My Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD died suddenly. It's not recognized in bios, disk manager or even with a USB adapter.
I gently unmounted the disk and I noticed 2 discolored inductors:
Above a new one found on the internet and below it's my SSD, we can notice the 2 discolored inductors circled in red
I also found this video on youtube where the technician works exactly on the same board revision (23-A1). He also has an inductors in bad shape but it seems that he needed to remove a faulty capacitors to make the disk recognized again.
I'm not as equipped as him but I have a multimeter. I used it in continuity mode to find shorted capacitors using ground from the sata 15 pin connector (4th pin from the left). I found those circled in red:
The problem is these capacitors are really small and I'm not equipped to desolder and resolder them to check which one is responsible for the short. I just have a T12 KSGER iron soldering station.
Also I don't have a thermal camera nor a power supply to inject voltage on the board and find a heat spot as the technician did in the video. I tried to plug in to my USB adapter but I didn't feel any heat spot with my fingers.
I would be very grateful for your help.
My Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD died suddenly. It's not recognized in bios, disk manager or even with a USB adapter.
I gently unmounted the disk and I noticed 2 discolored inductors:
Above a new one found on the internet and below it's my SSD, we can notice the 2 discolored inductors circled in red
I also found this video on youtube where the technician works exactly on the same board revision (23-A1). He also has an inductors in bad shape but it seems that he needed to remove a faulty capacitors to make the disk recognized again.
I'm not as equipped as him but I have a multimeter. I used it in continuity mode to find shorted capacitors using ground from the sata 15 pin connector (4th pin from the left). I found those circled in red:
The problem is these capacitors are really small and I'm not equipped to desolder and resolder them to check which one is responsible for the short. I just have a T12 KSGER iron soldering station.
Also I don't have a thermal camera nor a power supply to inject voltage on the board and find a heat spot as the technician did in the video. I tried to plug in to my USB adapter but I didn't feel any heat spot with my fingers.
I would be very grateful for your help.
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