Hi. I'm wondering if anybody has successfully managed to repair this. Is there any confirmation that the APU gets fried in these situations?

I have an Ayaneo Next with the same exact problem. It powers on to the fan spinning, no boot and only that cypd5225 BGA USB chip gets extremely hot.

I don't see any physical damage to other chips. Here's a picture. I bought it used and the previous owner semed to really enjoy thermal compound!

Thanks for any advice....