Pavillion 15 shorted the entire 3.3v rail
Hp pavilion 15 cc183 shorted the entire 3.3v rail, this thing is giving me a headache, I tried injecting 500mV and 1amp but the thing I suspected would be shorted (PCH) doesn't heat up, what could be the problem? I am outta ideas tbh 😢
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Dear all,
I have taken out the motherboard of a Acer TravelMate P214. There is a short to ground on the main power rail (19V). I don't have the schematics or boardview for this board (DAZ8IMB1AA0 REVA). But I have found 4 MOSFETS close to the main power rail : 2 N-Channel and 2 P-Channel.
I have checked resistance across each of the 4 MOSFETS. I have the following readings:
Both N-Channel Mosfets: nothing odd
P-Channel MOSFET number 1:
source - drain : 117 kOhm
source - gate: 96 Ohm
gate - drain: 117 kOhm
P-Channel MOSFET... -
Dear all,
Laptop is Lenovo Thinkpad L480 (boardview can be found in this badcaps topic). When pressing the power button the LED power light turns on, but nothing else happens.
I removed the motherboard, checked for shorts on the main inductors. I found that there is a short to ground on the +3VALW_P rail (@PL201). I soldered a wire on the PL201 inductor, and I injected up to 1.3V with my power supply. Current drawn is approximately 3.2A.
I used a small thermal camera to locate the shorted component. But nothing on the board heats significantly, except the... -
Hello,
This is my problem:
Laptop: Dell Latitude 5501
Motherboard: EDC51 LA-H181P
I have two power rails shorted to ground, +1.0V_PRIM and +3.3V_ALW_PCH. I removed solder on PJP302, +1.05VALWP (pad1) not shorted but +1.0V_PRIM (pad2) shorted.
I also cleaned PJP38, pad1 not shorted, pad2 (+3.3V_ALW_PCH) shorted to ground.
I measure the resistance of all the coils on the motherboard and they all were not shorted to ground except coil PL301 before I removed the solder on PJP302.
I injected +1.05V - 2A... -
Hey guys got laptop like above. Came to me with shorted main power rail and battery protecion on ( 0V on output). Got rid of short but nothing. Bench power supply says it takes nothing, but still got all voltages 1,2v,3.3v,5v - all good. Thermal cam showed nothing is starting even for a sec. I believe that since all coils etc are good resistance to ground it's probably one of chips. Can be IO chip or maybe something else? Could somebody help me out with this one - it's blowing my mind lol -
Hello:
I have both these laptops that appeared to have the same fault so I thought I would have a go at replacing the PCH as something to learn, they both are using the same PCH.
I started on the ACER:
Up on connecting power no signs of life but current is consumed from the bench power supply and the PCH is hot.
All the caps on the top of the PCH are showing 0 ohms and the 3.3v rail is shorted.
I followed the videos from Sorin, Electronics Repair School on Youtube heating from the bottom to install. I practised on around 10 scrap...
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