Hi,

I've been a technican for many years but I can only troubleshoot to the major parts, and I know nuts about component-level such as capacitors, resistors, ic chips, soldering etc.

My own laptop's motherboard failed - no power no response at all. AC adaper is working fine.

I just bought a multimeter and checked the piece of AC charger port cable that's connected to the motherboard.

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After connecting the AC adapter and turning on the power, I measured 20V on the following combinations:...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi all i am new to component level troubleshooting.. hope to learn so as to be able to repair motherboards which are rather simple to fix, such as blown capacitors.