Re: Dell Latitude E5450 Power Short Circuit



Grey coils are in good condition, the battery is low , so I am not able to test, but the laptop seems dead, I noticed with the other charger( that does not have the self-test circuit), the motherboard starts to heat up in around the area where the electric current enters...

Re: Dell Latitude E5450 Power Short Circuit



The CPU is soldered...

[FONT="Lucida Sans Unicode"]Hello to everyone

I have a problem with my Dell Latitude E5450.
When I insert the dell power jack into the laptop, the led on the jack turns immediately off, I tried with a different charger that does not have the self-ciruit test like the dell original adapter, and the laptop does not turn on, and no lights on the laptop.
I disassembled the motherboard from the laptop, and I don't know if this would be helpful but, I noticed that when i plug off the charger ( the non original one) from the motherboard, the CPU fan moves a little...

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Hello to everyone,
I am Francesco, I am 19, I am itallian, and I am studying computer science, sometimes I help my friend to resolve some technical problem of their PCs, I like making projects with Arduino and Raspberry Pi like IOT projects etc. I am also very interested into Artificial Intelligence and maybe one day I would work in this field.
In addition to being interested in information technology and electronics, I love music (pop, classical, rock, indie etc.) and photography.

This is me, and...