Asus GL502VT - faulty capacitor?

[Shotgun25]

Hi all,

I've searched the forum for this model and couldn't find anything.

Please could someone look at the attachment and advise if this is indeed a capacitor as I suspect.

I suspect it to be a capacitor and I have probed for continuity between ground and both sides of the cap and I get a constant beep on both.

My questions:-

1. If it is a capacitor then it should only beep momentarily and start charging right? This is the case with similar looking SMD components around it.

2. If it is failed, how would I go about finding a value to replace it?

Regards,

MATT

[robgerr]

Re: Asus GL502VT - faulty capacitor?

you have to measure in ohms to see if a capacitor is shorted or not. If you get 0 ohms there is a net short, then desolder it and try it out of the pcb. If, on the other hand, the measurement is a few ohms and not in a short net, it may be that the capacitor is in series to a circuit with strong currents such as the line feeding the cpu or gpu.
A condenser if it beep for a few seconds and then stops means that it is charging or a parallel capacitor in parallel with large capacities that are being jammed. Desolder from the circuit and try it.
For replace you need a schematic for find info.
You can try without capacitor temporarily

[diif]

Re: Asus GL502VT - faulty capacitor?

Depends where on the laptop it is then an educated guess can be made.
25V 1uf or 10uf if it's on the 19v rail.