Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

[Half-Saint]

A friend of mine asked me to look at his laptop which had trouble powering up. Sometimes it would start and sometimes it would just be dead. I opened it up and after careful inspection found the fault. A surface mount element burned out taking a part of the PCB along with it. I'm not sure what it is, guessing it's a cap (see pic). I tried to be smart and just filled the hole with solder but that didn't help. It actually gave me some smoke from the flat white connector which connects the DC IN board to the mainboard. Luckily I only tried connecting the power supply to the DC IN board itself without the rest of the laptop attached

I contacted Medion repair center in Germany and they don't have the part in stock. The repair center in Slovenia gave me an option to send them the laptop for inspection. Their exact words were "maybe something just has to be soldered". Very professional reply. Now my question is, can I fix it?

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

That's a pretty tiny picture.

[Half-Saint]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

I'm not sure, if that was sarcasm or you were being serious?

Don't know why but the built in forum image viewer doesn't like it, if I attach the pictures this way:

[tibd]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

just found this on ebay. Doesn't seems there is any blown parts there, maybe a (via) shortened to some other rail caused the charred area. Since the was smoke then i would definitely go for replacement.

[Half-Saint]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

Wow, I just went through that seller's entire inventory and couldn't find the part. Care to PM the link please?

Never mind, I searched Google for the image and came up with this guy's finished auctions. He sold two of those for 99 € each!

[tibd]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

well it was an old auction, just took the pic cause it had higher resolution.

There are other seller but the price tag is higher.
take a look at this one
http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Medion-MD9833...-/201115904080

[tibd]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

Can you post a pic for the opposite side of the board?

[dspok]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

Well if you have desktop power supply then you can fix it by injecting low voltage high ampere.

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

Well if you have desktop power supply then you can fix it by injecting low voltage high ampere.

3.3v its ok?
or a tablet battery 3.7v?

[ben7]

Re: Medion Akoya blown cap (?) on DC IN board

just found this on ebay. Doesn't seems there is any blown parts there, maybe a (via) shortened to some other rail caused the charred area. Since the was smoke then i would definitely go for replacement.

Comparing the pictures, the printing on the two boards is different. So don't assume they will have the same parts.

-Ben