Hi, I received a non-working Acer Nitro 5 laptop (AN515-54-5133) for repair. When I plugged it into the power adapter, not a single LED lit up, no light or sound codes at all. So I unplugged it from the power source and turned it over to open it up and as soon as I did, I was hit by the smell of a burnt component.
I was hoping it would just be a capacitor, but after opening the laptop I found our suspect labeled
PU301. On one side, 4 pins are bridged together on a shared copper trace, and that's exactly where the component was burnt. After desoldering it, a fused remnant of the component...
Comment