I recently found your channel and I really enjoy watching you work through problems. Straight to the point with no bling and a taste of humor. Love it.
I sent in a dell G7 17 inch that had a similar problem instead mine would turn on boot up but would not charge then it would just die, it was deemed a no fix and i recycled it. I'm never buying a gaming laptop again, thanks to this channel
These bulky laptops should come with socketed cpus. Supposedly the reason manufacturers moved to soldered cpus was to make laptops thinner (an effort led by intel ultrabook initiative), but on these huge bulky models it doesn’t make any difference if the cpu sits 1-2mm higher. At least amd should make the effort, even if they think they will lose money when people just change cpus instead of buying new laptops.
I suspect manufacturers did this intentionally so they can sell you a new laptop in a few years. Intel, for example, has completely stopped making PGA versions of its more recent laptop processors (PGA - pin grid array).
Hey Alex! It should be interesting to ask your customers with faulty laptops, if they keep the lid closed. I noticed on the other video with Asus laptop that there was dust on the screen in the shape of keyboard. A lot of people have external monitors connected to their laptops, so they keep the lid closed and i was wondering if the extra heat adds up and creates such problems quicker. Keep up the good work!
Hi there, majority of laptop (almost all) are having their air intake / fans pulling the air from the bottom, so closing the lid got 0 effect on the temperature. I've been using 2 laptop over 4 years having totally closed lid and connected to an external monitor, and I'm ALWAYS having a program called "HWiFO64" running to monitor my CPU temp, and it's always been normal.
I think the problem is people put there laptops on surfaces that are not flat..couches, towels, mats, ect. They can't breathe and run hotter than they should. My predictions are customers are at fault.
The problem with laptops that have mechanical hard drives, moving the laptop while the disc is spinning, creates forces on the disc, and wear and tear on the disc bearings. There is an experiment, using a spinning bicycle wheel while standing on a swivel platform. depending which way the spinning wheel is tilted, the person will be turn either left or right. The same physics apply to Hard drives. When the device is on, do not move it's position.
@@amrdaking1 except asus zéphyrus S gx5xx and gx7xx, also zephyrus Duos they have exhaust on the top keyboard. So leaving them lid closed he will suffocate
Hi, the keyboard-like marks on the displays are caused by physical friction between the keyboard and the display probably due to carrying the laptop in a backpack and the involved vibrations, the screen ends with micro-tears caused by friction, at least in my case that was the reason.
You obviously see quite a few (and other brands) with similar faults A fast zener or crowbar circuit would help to protect cpus etc in the event of mosfet failures, but, these days manufacturers don't want their products to last more than a few years.
Laptop makers are learning from your input Ali. And some of them should be very embarrassed by their short comings in design. Real valuable content. Very necessary info. God Bless you brother!!!
A buck converter with a shorted switch will obviously over-voltage the load (CPU). Dell should have included a crowbar or allowed some design safety margin. I am curious why swapping the CPU is impractical.
Reballing a BGA CPU may spend a lot of time and it is not always success, even if the original CPU is rendered unusable and no reballing is needed but replacing the CPU instead, installing a new CPU is not easy as well.
@@philipershler420 Quote: _"In one of his other videos Alex explained that reballing a CPU is very difficult and very often fails"_ Reballing is no joke! I just watched another video to see what was involved. I can see somebody like Alex spending a minimum of 2 hours on a job like that and it would require a lot of specialized equipment.
Love to watch his videos. always great work alex ! i am disappointed from dell, that they will not change the construction of this laptop for longer lifespan. I have a 8 year old alienware laptop and its great
That's not in their interest. Also 8 years for a laptop is very long. Saying that I have a 10 yo Thinkpad that's still doing a perfect job. Only had to replace the thermal paste.
11year old Alienware m17x r4 here! The best laptop they ever made in my opinion. Upgradable almost like a desktop pc. If you got the R3 you can even upgrade the motherboard to the R4! This is how all gaming laptops should be. I don't care if it is large, because it stays cool with a stable +700mhz OC on the CPU and does not throttle!
@@GamesToTutsOfficialChannel thats it. you spoke out of my soul. you can upgrade from r3 to r4 because base bottom is the same. you can upgrad everything like desktop. M17xR4 best laptop a company made. I wish they would produce a "refresh" of this laptop with new hardare and upgradeable too
Never ever! This would increase the manufacturing costs about 0.000001ct/10kpcs! For this mountain of money you can employ at least a political correctness manager.😁
Excellent fault detection Alex...and due to your videos, I'm getting a good picture on which hardware I should avoid buying. Hopefully these videos and the commentaries below, should motivate manufacturers to make better products, but if I was a betting man, I would not bet on it.
i have the r4 and the r5 and i repasted them. when i put ram and everything back in place it did exactly that with a clicking sound them turn off. i though i killed the laptop but turned out needed to clear the cmos. to do that unplug the battery and power cord and keep the power button pressed for 30 seconds. reconnect the power cord without batter see if powers on. for me it worked. hope it works for u as well. take care.
Hi, you do great work, love the way you explain things, i was just wondering since this ended up being a no fix would you retrieve the donor mosfet or leave it in?, assuming it's still good...Thanks.
Hi, I have kind of a dumb question, but here goes: Why did you decide this laptop was a "no fix" and abandon the repair? Isn't it possible to replace the entire motherboard with a used or refurbished working board? There should be a lot of value in this laptop aside from the motherboard that makes it worth fixing. And a related question: Why it is impossible to solder in a new Intel CPU? Thanks for your great work and useful advice -- I'm just wondering why you declared this unrepairable.
Why would Dell Alienware do something that harms the CPU on the long run. They should anticipate these things at the design level. They should include some sort of a replaceable protection circuit near the CPU.
Fact that OEMs don’t fix the board, they replace it so replaceable components or not, they don’t care. And it’s sad for customers with out of warranty devices.
I saw where Walmart and Ebay both have new mother boards for this model ranging in price from $300 to $1000. Maybe tell the owner that if they want a new mother board replacement as it is just the CPU that needs replacing that that would be their alternative??? I know that a new mother board does mean that Windows 10 would have to be reinstalled as well.
Even before the bottom is off Alex has his predictions, even without a crystal ball! Too bad there is never a way to replace these CPUs and GPUs. And come on folks, who would not bring it to a shop that is genuinely disappointed that they cannot fix your device?
Hmm, this smells after an under dimensioned inductor. The inductor is inductive only until certain frequency and current. If Alienware has used an inductor that barely fits the limits then you have a problem in edge cases when temperature causes the inductor's characteristic to change and then it becomes a short circuit. And short circuit to 12V or 20V or anything to CPU is not good XD
Nice try Alex, pity it wasn't fixable....it looked like the laptop batteries were starting to swell up as well, so better off writing the unit off, I wonder how old it was ?
Really nice repair attempt Alex. You can't win them all and this Dell Alienware 17R4 model is plagued by the CPU power short. Not worth repairing this machine. Thanks for the video sir!
Hello, I like the videos that you upload, I always ask when you upload videos, I have a question, I would like to know what type of microscope you use in your videos and also a soldering iron to remove comdensers and resistors, I would like to know what model they are, they already call my attention a lot buy them. Greetings from Colombia.
i sold my 17 r4 recently. good laptop but a lot of problems with heat and cpu frequency. now i have m15 r5 but heat is still an issue. i think this will be my last alienware laptop.
I wonder if you drilled out the short on the cpu would it restore some function to it. Worth a try if it's going to be scrapped anyway. And it might prove the problem.
A fuse only is totally unuseful, because input current is almost the same as output, a varistor could help toghether with a UVLO check at the beginning
The customers send the devices even from other countries without Alex's control, It's not like the customer left the laptop locally and talked to him in the store.
Couldn't the extra solder under the chip bridge other pins when it leaks out? I know in a lot of cases, it clearly comes out with the grouped pins and has no ill effects. But this chip looked like it had multiple places that could bridge and be unseen.
It doesn't do that because of flux. Flux keeps the melted solder apart underneath the chip, then it leaks out because of pressure and inevitably end up bridging. You can tell that the soldering was good because the laptop did in fact power on, but without recognizing the CPU. If there would be a short because of bad soldering the laptop PSU would have shut itself off like he was doing before.
If you have seen previous videos, he is not waisting time/money doing it or on GPUs also, when has a long list of items to repair and quickest. Said it 1 or 2 videos ago
if you ever open your laptop and see your Alienware looking like that, but its still working 100%. Can you replace them before they go bad to increase the probability of successfully fixing a issue before it becomes too far gone?
A question, if you dont replace the mosfet, the computer can work anyway, i have similar issues with acer all in one PC but i dont have a replacement mosfet, it can work with out this mosfet
Lesson: if you're laptop does not power on after pressing the power button twice, remove any power source instantly. Get it fix before you break components.
Anyone knows why laptops die this way? I own a Alienware M17 R4 (which is a bit different from this one), had only problems with it since the beginning. I'll avoid the proposed overclocking in the command center...
@@4eversr Yeah, I decided to use a cutting tool to remove the CPU fan because the service manual would describe 50 steps of motherboard dissasembly. In the end, there was only 3 tiny screws from the other side. So the new fan (which I tried but could not get from Dell) holds with duct tape. Duct tape is fighthing planned obsolescence!
I don't understand one thing. If there's short on the main power line and the cpu is getting hot why bother replacing drmos. The coil is discoloured which means high current was drawing. This for my understanding means the cpu is fried. I'm learning laptop motherboard repair and maybe someone could explain it to me if I'm understanding it right. Great video though !
as repairman he needs to ensure the issue is fact not just assumption that why he charges the repair fee which indicate he did his best to repair the laptop and confirmed no fix. He didn't just look and give conclusion like that (diff between pro & amateur) and charge people later for that and what worst if the laptop suddenly be fixed by other shop then what reputation can he hold. he is doing business here not just for fun.
you can pay 1000$ for a new CPU, install it, power on the laptop and damage it again. Too risky for many businesses to do CPU reballing/replacement, thats why they don't do it at NF.
Guys need help please ! 🙏 I have alienware 17 R4. When its unplugged and battery goes down, it asks to plug in. When plugged in and battery goes to 25-30%, it shuts down (not completely) . After if its still plugged in cant switch on, if unplug it, it turnes on perfectly. After if you plug in it turns off immediately, or if you wait to battery go down, and plug in later, it starts charging but same thing happens at 25-30%. And the same sircle goes again.... what problem it might be ?
my alien ware you can pop out the cpu but still overheats if i play to long and i end up having to use a usb key board because it gets hot and you type keys an off she goes but no issue after i used my plug in keyboard for long sessions,
I recently found your channel and I really enjoy watching you work through problems. Straight to the point with no bling and a taste of humor. Love it.
I assume the customer was informed that it was likely a no fix before sending it in, but still decided to take a gamble. Great video!
I sent in a dell G7 17 inch that had a similar problem instead mine would turn on boot up but would not charge then it would just die, it was deemed a no fix and i recycled it. I'm never buying a gaming laptop again, thanks to this channel
I would suggest not to buy anything which has the term "gaming" in it's name because it's often overpriced and not servicable.
Get hp zbooks
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These bulky laptops should come with socketed cpus. Supposedly the reason manufacturers moved to soldered cpus was to make laptops thinner (an effort led by intel ultrabook initiative), but on these huge bulky models it doesn’t make any difference if the cpu sits 1-2mm higher. At least amd should make the effort, even if they think they will lose money when people just change cpus instead of buying new laptops.
thinner lol what 2 cm thinner thats crazy
My first Lenovo laptop has a socketed CPU. If only the GPU was changeable it'd still be a relevant laptop.
I suspect manufacturers did this intentionally so they can sell you a new laptop in a few years. Intel, for example, has completely stopped making PGA versions of its more recent laptop processors (PGA - pin grid array).
One of the great things about your channel is knowing what are decent laptops and which to avoid..
Just sitting down, with a cup of coffee enjoy but learning as well. Great video brother.
It's midnight?
@@Big_AlMC It's morning on the other side of the Earth. Duh
@@alexparakan no way! Where!?
@@Big_AlMCMiddle of the Ocean
@@Big_AlMC Your current Standard time (+) or (-) 12 hours. Approximately that's where duh.
Hey Alex! It should be interesting to ask your customers with faulty laptops, if they keep the lid closed. I noticed on the other video with Asus laptop that there was dust on the screen in the shape of keyboard. A lot of people have external monitors connected to their laptops, so they keep the lid closed and i was wondering if the extra heat adds up and creates such problems quicker. Keep up the good work!
Hi there, majority of laptop (almost all) are having their air intake / fans pulling the air from the bottom, so closing the lid got 0 effect on the temperature. I've been using 2 laptop over 4 years having totally closed lid and connected to an external monitor, and I'm ALWAYS having a program called "HWiFO64" running to monitor my CPU temp, and it's always been normal.
I think the problem is people put there laptops on surfaces that are not flat..couches, towels, mats, ect. They can't breathe and run hotter than they should. My predictions are customers are at fault.
The problem with laptops that have mechanical hard drives, moving the laptop while the disc is spinning, creates forces on the disc, and wear and tear on the disc bearings. There is an experiment, using a spinning bicycle wheel while standing on a swivel platform. depending which way the spinning wheel is tilted, the person will be turn either left or right. The same physics apply to Hard drives. When the device is on, do not move it's position.
@@amrdaking1 except asus zéphyrus S gx5xx and gx7xx, also zephyrus Duos they have exhaust on the top keyboard. So leaving them lid closed he will suffocate
Hi, the keyboard-like marks on the displays are caused by physical friction between the keyboard and the display probably due to carrying the laptop in a backpack and the involved vibrations, the screen ends with micro-tears caused by friction, at least in my case that was the reason.
You obviously see quite a few (and other brands) with similar faults A fast zener or crowbar circuit would help to protect cpus etc in the event of mosfet failures, but, these days manufacturers don't want their products to last more than a few years.
Laptop makers are learning from your input Ali. And some of them should be very embarrassed by their short comings in design. Real valuable content. Very necessary info. God Bless you brother!!!
A buck converter with a shorted switch will obviously over-voltage the load (CPU). Dell should have included a crowbar or allowed some design safety margin. I am curious why swapping the CPU is impractical.
Reballing cpu is not economical Alex says.
Reballing a BGA CPU may spend a lot of time and it is not always success, even if the original CPU is rendered unusable and no reballing is needed but replacing the CPU instead, installing a new CPU is not easy as well.
remember the times when a laptop cpu was on a socket... easy swap.... no more joy today.
@@chihofung6860 Or, if you have a lot of patience, replace each ball with a socket for a pin, and put a pinned cpu?
@@philipershler420 Quote: _"In one of his other videos Alex explained that reballing a CPU is very difficult and very often fails"_
Reballing is no joke! I just watched another video to see what was involved.
I can see somebody like Alex spending a minimum of 2 hours on a job like that and it would require a lot of specialized equipment.
Love to watch his videos. always great work alex ! i am disappointed from dell, that they will not change the construction of this laptop for longer lifespan. I have a 8 year old alienware laptop and its great
That's not in their interest. Also 8 years for a laptop is very long. Saying that I have a 10 yo Thinkpad that's still doing a perfect job. Only had to replace the thermal paste.
11year old Alienware m17x r4 here! The best laptop they ever made in my opinion. Upgradable almost like a desktop pc. If you got the R3 you can even upgrade the motherboard to the R4! This is how all gaming laptops should be. I don't care if it is large, because it stays cool with a stable +700mhz OC on the CPU and does not throttle!
@@GamesToTutsOfficialChannel thats it. you spoke out of my soul. you can upgrade from r3 to r4 because base bottom is the same. you can upgrad everything like desktop. M17xR4 best laptop a company made. I wish they would produce a "refresh" of this laptop with new hardare and upgradeable too
At least the majority of the Asus laptops get fixed
I'm not a electrician but I enjoy watching your video. I found it interesting
Same here.
He's not an electrician either.
what does electrician have to do with this 😂
I am watching your video from Marseille... south of France..thank you very much for your videos
Imagine if they did something new in a laptop. Something inovative like a laptop cpu socket, or something crazy like that. Just imagine.
check out framework laptop
Never ever! This would increase the manufacturing costs about 0.000001ct/10kpcs! For this mountain of money you can employ at least a political correctness manager.😁
You can't make the laptop as thin and as lightweight if you do this. Hence most manufactures don't.
some manuf already did before but they dropped in favor to light and thin laptop. example lenovo thinkpad series, T430 and before.
Excellent fault detection Alex...and due to your videos, I'm getting a good picture on which hardware I should avoid buying. Hopefully these videos and the commentaries below, should motivate manufacturers to make better products, but if I was a betting man, I would not bet on it.
Love to watch his videos. always great work alex
i have the r4 and the r5 and i repasted them. when i put ram and everything back in place it did exactly that with a clicking sound them turn off. i though i killed the laptop but turned out needed to clear the cmos. to do that unplug the battery and power cord and keep the power button pressed for 30 seconds. reconnect the power cord without batter see if powers on. for me it worked. hope it works for u as well. take care.
Thanks for sharing your experience ....love from Uk
Hi, you do great work, love the way you explain things, i was just wondering since this ended up being a no fix would you retrieve the donor mosfet or leave it in?, assuming it's still good...Thanks.
your workbench is awesome my friend
Hi, I have kind of a dumb question, but here goes: Why did you decide this laptop was a "no fix" and abandon the repair? Isn't it possible to replace the entire motherboard with a used or refurbished working board? There should be a lot of value in this laptop aside from the motherboard that makes it worth fixing. And a related question: Why it is impossible to solder in a new Intel CPU? Thanks for your great work and useful advice -- I'm just wondering why you declared this unrepairable.
Its not impossible, its just not evonomicly viable to so so, espeicially if its a known fault.
i have the exact model and have been through hell with it. i still love it to death though
Why would Dell Alienware do something that harms the CPU on the long run. They should anticipate these things at the design level.
They should include some sort of a replaceable protection circuit near the CPU.
That would have costed an additional $1 which could ruin this small company or they would not sell enough new laptops... ;-)
planned obsolescence
Fact that OEMs don’t fix the board, they replace it so replaceable components or not, they don’t care. And it’s sad for customers with out of warranty devices.
Fascinating as always, thank you.
Had this laptop and man it had the worst cpu throttling issue. It would overheat running just windows
The throttling issues depends on your variant, this one always ran cool. Was an i7 7700 with the Nvidia 1060 8GB.
I saw where Walmart and Ebay both have new mother boards for this model ranging in price from $300 to $1000.
Maybe tell the owner that if they want a new mother board replacement as it is just the CPU that needs replacing that that would be their alternative???
I know that a new mother board does mean that Windows 10 would have to be reinstalled as well.
This specific board is not available online, I looked. It was a limited release version with the 8G GeForce 1660 and Intel 1770 cpu.
Even before the bottom is off Alex has his predictions, even without a crystal ball! Too bad there is never a way to replace these CPUs and GPUs. And come on folks, who would not bring it to a shop that is genuinely disappointed that they cannot fix your device?
there is but its really tricky as heck to do and need special equipment to do it
Thanks for another great repair video!
Hmm, this smells after an under dimensioned inductor. The inductor is inductive only until certain frequency and current. If Alienware has used an inductor that barely fits the limits then you have a problem in edge cases when temperature causes the inductor's characteristic to change and then it becomes a short circuit. And short circuit to 12V or 20V or anything to CPU is not good XD
Every great technician I know has a great sense of humor. Thanks for the video...
And good evening from Australia
Love your videos ur good at what you do..
I was wondering what was ur hardest fix ?
alex you`re my favourite teacher
I am glad I never wasted money on one of these. Dell used to be a good company, but I wouldn't near them now.
I have the same laptop no issues so far
Nice try Alex, pity it wasn't fixable....it looked like the laptop batteries were starting to swell up as well, so better off writing the unit off, I wonder how old it was ?
February 14, 2017 was first release.
@@Isekai_Fan 4-5 years, good time to replace it as intended by the manufacturers. $$$
I can see allready that Big Boss is happy 😆
Really nice repair attempt Alex. You can't win them all and this Dell Alienware 17R4 model is plagued by the CPU power short. Not worth repairing this machine. Thanks for the video sir!
Hello, I like the videos that you upload, I always ask when you upload videos, I have a question, I would like to know what type of microscope you use in your videos and also a soldering iron to remove comdensers and resistors, I would like to know what model they are, they already call my attention a lot buy them. Greetings from Colombia.
i sold my 17 r4 recently. good laptop but a lot of problems with heat and cpu frequency. now i have m15 r5 but heat is still an issue. i think this will be my last alienware laptop.
The thermal camera showed that the shorts in the processor heat up first
I wonder if you drilled out the short on the cpu would it restore some function to it. Worth a try if it's going to be scrapped anyway. And it might prove the problem.
Would it make any difference if Dell added a fuse inline to protect the CPU from getting nuked by excess voltage?
A fuse only is totally unuseful, because input current is almost the same as output, a varistor could help toghether with a UVLO check at the beginning
A fuse can only limit current, not voltage
cost them too much LOL
A fuse protects from overcurrent not overvoltage.
Thats what VRM chokes do;
If you are wondering what that flash was just him pointing to ram it seems like
I have this laptop. Can confirm, it’s horrendous.
@northridgefix could you try power on without the battery sir? i have a hunch :P
Did you let the customer know upfront that the repair might not fix it?
The customers send the devices even from other countries without Alex's control, It's not like the customer left the laptop locally and talked to him in the store.
Couldn't the extra solder under the chip bridge other pins when it leaks out?
I know in a lot of cases, it clearly comes out with the grouped pins and has no ill effects. But this chip looked like it had multiple places that could bridge and be unseen.
the fact that the problem is known and predicted by Alex then there's no need to check it again.
It doesn't do that because of flux. Flux keeps the melted solder apart underneath the chip, then it leaks out because of pressure and inevitably end up bridging. You can tell that the soldering was good because the laptop did in fact power on, but without recognizing the CPU. If there would be a short because of bad soldering the laptop PSU would have shut itself off like he was doing before.
@@erleykenneth ???
I was wondering the same
OMG! I own one of those laptops. Have since 2017…
Please embed your multi meter somewhere in the video when testing.
Amazing video. Thank you. Greets
If the owner gives up the computer as a donor board/screen does that cover the repair attempt fee? Just curious. Thanks.
"The psychic shop next door closed. They did not see it coming." 🤣
Nice video! Can you change the cpu?
Of course he can. But he won’t do it since it’s not practical nor economical.
If you have seen previous videos, he is not waisting time/money doing it or on GPUs also, when has a long list of items to repair and quickest. Said it 1 or 2 videos ago
You need special equipment to resolder the cpus. Also it’s usually not worth the time on all but the most expensive devices
repair cost with cpu change would be higher than buying the same used laptop that is fully functional so it's not worth it
I would think so all be it difficult as it's likely soldered in so it can be done if you can get a working cpu to plop in as a replacement
Seems like you are a better psychic than your old neighbours.
why doesnt anyone clean the laptop BEFORE sending it to you?
Why not change the mosfet next to it as well. Might gonna change the fate like previous asus one.
No short here. Power button is flashing 2 red 1 blue. CPU failure.
@@NorthridgeFix understood sir.
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Freaking amazing videos 😍
if you ever open your laptop and see your Alienware looking like that, but its still working 100%. Can you replace them before they go bad to increase the probability of successfully fixing a issue before it becomes too far gone?
Very good job 👏 👍 👌
Can you do more 👽ware repairs on video? Pleaseee))
A question, if you dont replace the mosfet, the computer can work anyway, i have similar issues with acer all in one PC but i dont have a replacement mosfet, it can work with out this mosfet
My gigabyte motherboard does the same, cpu led is solid on the motherboard and cpu does not get hot. Bad cpu?
Is it possible that such MOSFET dies in a "closed" position? If yes, how to detect it? There would be no short, but only insufficient power.
Try flash kbc ec and bios
Really good job
Grate job alex
Most psychic shops close down due to unseen circumstances.
some laptops have same problem turn on off because bios u can re flush the bios and test again
why the same problem, because of bad design? what do you do if no donor board?
So have to order a new motherboard or?
Damn, those Alienware are even worse than the Asus ones. At least the Asus are usually fixable.
You said you don't work on watches, but have ever worked on a iwatch?
I was just wondering. Why can you not change a laptop cpu. Thank you
We are all laughing here about your fortune teller neighbor.
Lesson: if you're laptop does not power on after pressing the power button twice, remove any power source instantly. Get it fix before you break components.
I'm not a laptop, man
@@maklogetrich2378 ??
@@Nikkerudon read his comment
Used to have a psychic store never door. They close because they didn't see it coming🤣🤣🤣
Anyone knows why laptops die this way? I own a Alienware M17 R4 (which is a bit different from this one), had only problems with it since the beginning. I'll avoid the proposed overclocking in the command center...
planned obsolescence
@@4eversr Yeah, I decided to use a cutting tool to remove the CPU fan because the service manual would describe 50 steps of motherboard dissasembly. In the end, there was only 3 tiny screws from the other side. So the new fan (which I tried but could not get from Dell) holds with duct tape. Duct tape is fighthing planned obsolescence!
Hey at least the Asus's generally just blow a cap and don't fry the CPU.
Just replace the cpu and charge them for the cpu
I can't believe the amount of people commenting persistent or alternative solutions. IT IS DEAD. and you cannot fix it. Unless in an economical way
overclocking cpu is factor ?
Show us the thermal offer the repair
How can I contact you sir...?
I don't understand one thing. If there's short on the main power line and the cpu is getting hot why bother replacing drmos. The coil is discoloured which means high current was drawing. This for my understanding means the cpu is fried. I'm learning laptop motherboard repair and maybe someone could explain it to me if I'm understanding it right. Great video though !
He did that for educational purposes.
as repairman he needs to ensure the issue is fact not just assumption that why he charges the repair fee which indicate he did his best to repair the laptop and confirmed no fix. He didn't just look and give conclusion like that (diff between pro & amateur) and charge people later for that and what worst if the laptop suddenly be fixed by other shop then what reputation can he hold. he is doing business here not just for fun.
Hi
Is it fixable if the CPU is replaced? Or maybe there will be other issues as well?
Thanks
you can pay 1000$ for a new CPU, install it, power on the laptop and damage it again. Too risky for many businesses to do CPU reballing/replacement, thats why they don't do it at NF.
If replaced is fixable. But the cost is high and not worth it.
I remember the days when Laptops had Soceted CPU's.
Guys need help please ! 🙏
I have alienware 17 R4.
When its unplugged and battery goes down, it asks to plug in.
When plugged in and battery goes to 25-30%, it shuts down (not completely) .
After if its still plugged in cant switch on, if unplug it, it turnes on perfectly. After if you plug in it turns off immediately, or if you wait to battery go down, and plug in later, it starts charging but same thing happens at 25-30%. And the same sircle goes again.... what problem it might be ?
I know it's an old video. Is there anyway to prevent this my 17r4 has the i7-7820hk.
my alien ware you can pop out the cpu but still overheats if i play to long and i end up having to use a usb key board because it gets hot and you type keys an off she goes but no issue after i used my plug in keyboard for long sessions,
Battery is also swollen.
I learned a long time by trial and error never to buy Dell or HP - way to much proprietary designs.
"They did not see it coming" xD
Lol, the physic didn't see it coming
yea that was funny 🤣
have you ever tried to replace the cpu then ? since you have donor board, you could try replacing the cpu !
customer can replace it himself. cpu is not free.
@@intercepte I thought they were soldered cpu...
The donor board has the same fried cpu.
Why not replace the cpu if it's a CPU issue?
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