Thanks for everyones help so far on this.
I managed to locate a visually identical component on a different laptop motherboard so used this to replace the one in the photo, but the fault is still there. I guess that this blown component must have been the result of another faulty component on the board

I guess there is no saying that the component I used was fully working, but it didnt have the visual bulge like the one in the picture.
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