Acer Nitro 5 – Dead by liquid damage, Acer service asked £1000 for this repair, can we fix it?

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• Hey Sorin. Been a while since i watched some of your vid's. It is good to see that you are now using water, instead of petrol! (not just any water either}. You once mentioned that capacitor's are not that important. It is fantastic that now you realize the importance of them. But size or value does not matter? I loved the diagonal postioning of them Remarkable.And without any hot glue. Impressive. You even said you were dodgy throughout this vid. Love you. Happy New year to you and family.

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• Wonderful 🎉🎉🎉

• Awesome repair !

• U R A Genius.

• Rosin is a good isolator, but rosin also reacts with moisture from the air to create an acid …

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• Good job mate 👍

• The are of teaching. the best teacher

• Last Nov.(a few days before dec.) Altex (repair service, in capital buc, after sending laptop from province there) asked for 1000eur for a Asus ROG motherboard , for a 16 inch or 17 model , they sayed the motherboard is dead. I manged to reset properly the board after I checked for shorts as you always showed us. (had no short circuit's on main) – it seeme'd to be a bios issue , had a previous update , but I could not track down properly the initial problem .(I was glad I did not have to do anything except new thermal-paste). L.E. I pull out also everything-to properly reset the laptop- leaving screen,mb,power,then plugged ram+kb/pv button (pulled all, wifi, trackpad,including the nvme SSD , that may have issues after a overvolt , most of them have baaad firmwares aniways.)

• I've got a gaming laptop myself and treat it very delicately after watching all your videos on them! I didn't take in to account the repairability of such a laptop when I purchased it.

• The entire situation has a lot of luck, not the customer, because you are extremely good at what you are doing. 😎

• 28:27 best moment in every video Sorin! ☺

• The not so dodgy Sorin did another wonderful repair. PS. Why the inductor was removed, I bet the Acer service technician didn't remove the motherboard and saw the short there and was still shorted due to caps other side of the board. They're lazy and want to take 1k for a ez motherboard swap. Once again, great repair.

• 28:26 always looking for this first

• he got me there when he said lets clean it with water

• Sorin, I love all of your videos. Fun and exciting to watch! Keep em coming.😊

• great work luv ur catchphrase very nice laptop very nice

• Modern day technicians are fake. They're all board changers. My workbench is a full blown lab. Troubleshooting the board is all the fun 😊.

• Replace the jumper with a inductor.

• Salut, Sorin chiar ai spus bine, un client norocos, a scapat usor…😅

• Excelente tu vídeo!….muy educativo!….un saludo desde san Cristóbal , Táchira , Venezuela…..una pregunta….no estoy claro de la funcion que ocupan esas bobinas en el circuito ya que no vi el schematic de la board….pero al menos que esos inductores (bobinas) solo tengan la funcion de filtrar corrientes parasitas pues estaria bien lo que hiciste de solo quitarlas y colocar un alambre (puente) en el sitio ….porque un inductor a pesar de medir casi cero ohmnios (ohmn) al igual que un simple alambre pues no funcionan exactamente igual….un inductor es un alambre enrollado sobre un nucleo y calibrado para obtener cierto valor en henrios (unidad de medida de un inductor) y se calcula para almacenar cierta energia….en una fuente buck donde tambien se implica una bobina con capacitores y algunos mosfets pues te aseguro que no funcionaria correctamente la fuente su se instalara un simple alambre en el lugar de un inductor o bobina ya que esta ultima almacena un valor de energia por cada ciclo de oscilacion de los Mosfets presentes en la fuente buck….seria bueno que aclarara la funcion de esas bobinas en ese momento….gracias y aprecio y aprendo con cada video tuyo….saludos

• Well done Sorin brilliantly done thanks 😊

• And why fluctuating voltage,we will never know, ahh power supply has no enough power,ok

• Interestingly, when I worked for the local IBM PC dealership, I was told that if one wanted a real IBM technician to look at an issue with a PC or PS/2 system (back in the late 80's-early 90's) you would be charged $200/hour with a two hour minimum. So even before the tech set eyes on your system you were $400 out of pocket. In ~1990. Fortunately we charged a bit less (but not a heck of a lot less, to be sure).

• 30:10 – Dodgy but honest 😀

• they remove it so he will come back with the laptop to them and pay that 1000, and they do the electronic repair or outsource it (as they know what to remove from board, they know electronics)

• Maybe they thought they were capacitors because they would be “shorted”and so they removed them. But still, as noted, they were more like torn off than desoldered so that’s a sign of amateur work.
  Nothing worse than an expert amateur.
  Excellent work by the expert expert.

• amazing as always..

• NICE TECHNIQUE
  PROFESSOR

• On,just in time. I have same modrl with gc not detected. The gpu, ryx 2060, has .7 v at coils with ~1 ohm resistance. The gpu is becomes hot with fans spinning at full speed. Some tried to reflow gpu before. Any advice pl.

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• nice repair, word of warning never plug in the NVME while battery or power supply is plugged in. I have seen motherboard killed by doing this, sends voltage to the pch

• I'll take a dodgy Sorin repair any day. I wish I was half as good as Sorin. Love your work

• Sorin ! Your videos are pure addictions !!!! Love your work, now and always 🙂

• Even when he replaces the capacitor, he does it in his own way (two paths with a curved capacitor).

• 4:07 middle screen water damage on the capacitor above prv75

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