Another quick one. Problem: LEDs light for 1 second then off. After a few dozen tries, or if the laptop is warmed up a little, it works fine.
Normally this behavior is cold joints on the Northbridge, requiring a reball, but that's on the AMD version with the HD3200 chipset. This one is Intel/nvidia based, and it doesn't have a GPU from the affected series, either. I haven't checked but i think the GPU is a 9400M or a 9600M. Also when the BGA is bad or has cold joints, it does other nasties as well. This laptop showed no problems when it did start up.
I took some measurements and noticed that GPU Vcore does not come up when it won't start. So i resoldered PU3 that's under the fan there. That one's doing the GPU Vcore.
It started up first time but after i let it cool down it refused to start once again. I still suspected it to be a cold joint on a power IC, not some BGA, so i took the hot air station and started briefly warming up areas of the board, while pushing the power button. When i reached PU1 it instantly sprang to life.
I took a closer look at it and what's that... an ISL6262A. It's controlling the CPU Vcore. I remember that from here. CPU Vcore did come up even when it wasn't starting, but i decided to try touching up the solder on that anyway.
Sure enough, resoldering the ISL6262A fixed it. I have left the laptop powered off for 10 minutes and then turned it back on - no problem.
The soldering looked perfect but you can never be sure.
Normally this behavior is cold joints on the Northbridge, requiring a reball, but that's on the AMD version with the HD3200 chipset. This one is Intel/nvidia based, and it doesn't have a GPU from the affected series, either. I haven't checked but i think the GPU is a 9400M or a 9600M. Also when the BGA is bad or has cold joints, it does other nasties as well. This laptop showed no problems when it did start up.
I took some measurements and noticed that GPU Vcore does not come up when it won't start. So i resoldered PU3 that's under the fan there. That one's doing the GPU Vcore.
It started up first time but after i let it cool down it refused to start once again. I still suspected it to be a cold joint on a power IC, not some BGA, so i took the hot air station and started briefly warming up areas of the board, while pushing the power button. When i reached PU1 it instantly sprang to life.
I took a closer look at it and what's that... an ISL6262A. It's controlling the CPU Vcore. I remember that from here. CPU Vcore did come up even when it wasn't starting, but i decided to try touching up the solder on that anyway.
Sure enough, resoldering the ISL6262A fixed it. I have left the laptop powered off for 10 minutes and then turned it back on - no problem.

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