Trying to repair a Powercolor 5500XT. I checked all the VRMs, found a short on the Vcore. I thought the culprit was a bad HiFet, as shown in the pic, I removed both Hi and Lo, only to find that the Hi was bad and the Lo was good.

Unfortunately, the short still present. So I lifted the inductors (open circuit) and measured. As you can see the top 2 inductors (Memory??) still reads short, 0.3 ohms. The other inductors reads around 30 ohms. And the bottom inductor (PEX??), reads 2.5 ohms.

Also I measured the caps to the right side of the inductors, they are short. The...

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Hello, Newbie here. Trying to learn how to repair GPUs.