Re: Laptop MB Zenbook UX31E i5, no power to the LCD LED lights

Hello again,
and Happy New Year!!

I got a replacement board which is almost identical.
I could compare the elements one by one between the 2 boards.
The new board has slightly weaker CPU (90% of the original).

With the new board I could try the LCD.

I would appreciate any advice how to measure the elements between the boards.
Including simple instructions. I do have a multimeter but I've used it rarely, only for simple tasks.
Also, how to...

Laptop MB Zenbook UX31E i5
No power to the LCD LED lights.

The Motherboard is Zenbook UX31E i5, 60-n8nmb4F00-b03.

I recently got this laptop Zenbook UX31E second hand.
I disassembled it to replace the LCD screen.

While attempting to reatach the LCD cable to the internal socket on the MB for the LCD display, when the 2 sockets were not completely positioned but still touching each other,
I heard a short cracking noise and I smelled burned.
After this moment the LCD would not power on!

I did the mistake of plugging sockets...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi all,
Im Dimitar, 39 y, I live in Montreal.
Im a sofware engineer and many years ago I had a small business with computer hardware. Im pretty tech savy but Im definitely not an electronics expert.

I have a slightly broken zenbook MB, I hope I could get any help here ...