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Old laptop died 🥲 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
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I tried to start my laptop earlier, only for nothing to happen. It won't start on battery or when plugged in (it can run without a battery when plugged in). The battery does seem to be dead, and so is the 3V CMOS battery.

I opened it up and noticed a circle visable on one of the inductors. Hopefully you can see it in the picture.

Could this be the problem, or is that normal?

Update: I've tested some suggestion and watched some repair videos, but I found nothing. Goodbye old friend 🥲🤚

Thanks for the help guys

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Just so you know, as an inductor is just a small coil of copper, the resistivity might be low enough to trigger the beeping on the multimeter! So maybe it's not dead. I've seen a lot of burned down inductor and trust me it looks way worse.

If your multimeter can measure resistance in miliHoms, you should be able to measure at least ~10mR or more (that order of magnitude) Note that measuring a circuit like so is not guaranteed since there's other stuff on a PCB that gets measured at the same time.

Did you remove the motherboard and looked at the other side?

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