Thanks! Do you know any way to be sure?
No infos at all, searched everywhere, and I'm sure contacting Compal directly, they'll not tell me anything about their private components...

Hi!
I'm here cause I definitely need your help.
The laptop beginned to have issues on the gpu side, like driver installed but no gpu used by the system, games etc.

Waking up the computer, I heard a faint "bang" inside, it turned off instantly, and just after a bad smell we all know.

As a pc technician since so many years, I searched everything I could find on it, and the exact motherboard.
Found the cap that exploded.
Really seems only that failed.

The cap is on the PCW52 position.
With the boardview I found this component...

Hello everyone!
Here cause I'm a pc technician since so many years.
So definitely in some cases, your help can be so helpfull 😉
Will contribute as best as I can.