Hi everyone
I have taken on a task to fix my friends laptop. It was dropped and suffered some bad damage to the screen and I accepted the challenge as I said it shouldn't be hard to source a screen relatively cheaply and fit it for him, however after looking at it I am fairly sure the motherboard is also damaged.
It is an Acer 5742 and is showing some pretty weird symptoms. It turns on for about 3 seconds, fan spins, blue lights show (no flashing - just on) and then it turns off again, so I just assumed the motherboard was dead as this is usually a pretty big sign. But it does do different things, I have noticed if the charger is plugged in, it will repeatedly turn on an off until the charger is removed, as opposed to when the charger is not plugged in it will only come on the one time.
If the battery is taken out for about an hour and put back in and turned on, it will come on for much longer, maybe about 1-2 minutes, in which the CPU and chipset get significantly hot, but still does nothing - no sound - no flashing lights etc.
I inspected the motherboard and found one of the capacitors was slightly lifted up from the motherboard and it appeared that one of its legs was not in connection to the motherboard, so I took it off and soldered it with a couple of wires to the board, but it still didn't effect anything.
I have added some pictures of the motherboard and capacitor I reattached the board, this capacitor also has a slight dent which looks like it has been caused by part of the casing hitting it when it was dropped.
http://i42.tinypic.com/2131xe.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/m9vijb.jpg
Thanks for looking!
I have taken on a task to fix my friends laptop. It was dropped and suffered some bad damage to the screen and I accepted the challenge as I said it shouldn't be hard to source a screen relatively cheaply and fit it for him, however after looking at it I am fairly sure the motherboard is also damaged.
It is an Acer 5742 and is showing some pretty weird symptoms. It turns on for about 3 seconds, fan spins, blue lights show (no flashing - just on) and then it turns off again, so I just assumed the motherboard was dead as this is usually a pretty big sign. But it does do different things, I have noticed if the charger is plugged in, it will repeatedly turn on an off until the charger is removed, as opposed to when the charger is not plugged in it will only come on the one time.
If the battery is taken out for about an hour and put back in and turned on, it will come on for much longer, maybe about 1-2 minutes, in which the CPU and chipset get significantly hot, but still does nothing - no sound - no flashing lights etc.
I inspected the motherboard and found one of the capacitors was slightly lifted up from the motherboard and it appeared that one of its legs was not in connection to the motherboard, so I took it off and soldered it with a couple of wires to the board, but it still didn't effect anything.
I have added some pictures of the motherboard and capacitor I reattached the board, this capacitor also has a slight dent which looks like it has been caused by part of the casing hitting it when it was dropped.
http://i42.tinypic.com/2131xe.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/m9vijb.jpg
Thanks for looking!
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