There were no short circuit detected on the 19V, main power rail of the motherboard. However, when the adaptor was plugged in and the voltage reading taken, it was identified that the voltage wasn't going beyond the first power mosfet and unto the rest of the motherboard.

An identical mosfet was found and removed from an acer nitro 5 donor board, the faulty mosfet was swapped out and the voltage reading was again measured. This time, voltage was passing through the replacement mosfet, but the unit still wouldn't turn on or charge. It was then observed that an IC was overheating on...

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This rar seems to be corrupt. I've downloaded it a few times and can never get anything out of the rar