Liked & subbed! Very clear and concise tutorial. I have this exactly model Inspiron 5593. I've actually had the back off before when I got it new from Dell I ordered another 8Gb ram stick to make it dual channel and also added a 2TB WD SSD in the drive bay to SATA 3 connection. And didn't break a clip! these newer laptops are a heck of a lot harder to open than the old school ones! It's been fine for 2 years, hardly used much but battery was still good for a couple of hours unplugged - that is until last week, lightning hit a tree and the lawn in my front yard and blew out a water pipe in the ground and a bunch of external power supplies in the house ( Iphone chargers, a TV, Cable modem, and separate router, dishwasher) thought that was all but later that day I was using this laptop which had been plugged into a cheap power strip with my Acer monitor (2nd screen via HDMI) - the power strip was off when the lightning hit but as I used later in the day to shop for new modem and router via hotspot on my phone it asked me to plug it in after about an hour... Sadly it was plugged in and the power strip I had clicked on earlier so I was a bit confused, and as you can guess the battery warned me again at some point and shut the computer down. Then I realized the 2nd monitor had not been on as it usually would have been and no led lit on it - so both dead. Got my multimeter out and tested the monitor's power brick - zero volts, so I'm hoping that with that item that it's just the power adapter. Hoped the same for the Dell power adapter but alas it is putting out a steady 19.xx Volts as per the specs on the brick and label on PC. So I've watched a video on YT with a guy who is diagnosing various random dead laptops and see he fault finds and tests a few MOSFETs, diodes and ultimately it was a capacitor in a row of about 5 of them at the end, and he just removed it as there were 4 remaining that were sufficient to remove interference noise and the computer worked again. From previous experience I know my soldering iron isn't good enough for a job like this, he used clear thick flux poured onto the board and a gas heat gun and bent tip forceps to remove, lift straight off the motherboard these components with ease and replace them. Everywhere I call around here just says it's probably the mobo and we'll get you a new one for like most of the cost of a new lappy which isn't cool. I know the computer works perfectly other than now not charging. It seems that the local shops tell me that they send these out to some mystery place for soldering (I wish I knew who - but they probably don't want to deal with the public and I don't blame them!). I already did a discharge with the power button without it plugged in to see if that would get rid of the static if that's all that it was as I believe static can cause it to not start apparently, but it didn't help. In a picture I see what appear to be two capacitors labelled CD3656 on the PCB right where the AC adapter wire unplugs from the mobo although I can't find any with that exact # online but it does bring up pictures of similar ones, do you think maybe those are the culprit? Also I've read that in order to truly get static out of the computer that the battery should be removed to do so if while battery attached didn't solve the problem even though battery is dead, any thoughts on this situation? I could open it up again and try the battery removed and also try plugging it in without the battery installed - do you think this is safe? I don't know if you get this far into these computers as far as replacing components on a soldering level but any hints or tips you might have, I'd really appreciate it - thanks in advance.
Liked & subbed! Very clear and concise tutorial.
I have this exactly model Inspiron 5593. I've actually had the back off before when I got it new from Dell I ordered another 8Gb ram stick to make it dual channel and also added a 2TB WD SSD in the drive bay to SATA 3 connection. And didn't break a clip! these newer laptops are a heck of a lot harder to open than the old school ones!
It's been fine for 2 years, hardly used much but battery was still good for a couple of hours unplugged - that is until last week, lightning hit a tree and the lawn in my front yard and blew out a water pipe in the ground and a bunch of external power supplies in the house ( Iphone chargers, a TV, Cable modem, and separate router, dishwasher) thought that was all but later that day I was using this laptop which had been plugged into a cheap power strip with my Acer monitor (2nd screen via HDMI) - the power strip was off when the lightning hit but as I used later in the day to shop for new modem and router via hotspot on my phone it asked me to plug it in after about an hour...
Sadly it was plugged in and the power strip I had clicked on earlier so I was a bit confused, and as you can guess the battery warned me again at some point and shut the computer down.
Then I realized the 2nd monitor had not been on as it usually would have been and no led lit on it - so both dead.
Got my multimeter out and tested the monitor's power brick - zero volts, so I'm hoping that with that item that it's just the power adapter.
Hoped the same for the Dell power adapter but alas it is putting out a steady 19.xx Volts as per the specs on the brick and label on PC.
So I've watched a video on YT with a guy who is diagnosing various random dead laptops and see he fault finds and tests a few MOSFETs, diodes and ultimately it was a capacitor in a row of about 5 of them at the end, and he just removed it as there were 4 remaining that were sufficient to remove interference noise and the computer worked again.
From previous experience I know my soldering iron isn't good enough for a job like this, he used clear thick flux poured onto the board and a gas heat gun and bent tip forceps to remove, lift straight off the motherboard these components with ease and replace them.
Everywhere I call around here just says it's probably the mobo and we'll get you a new one for like most of the cost of a new lappy which isn't cool.
I know the computer works perfectly other than now not charging. It seems that the local shops tell me that they send these out to some mystery place for soldering (I wish I knew who - but they probably don't want to deal with the public and I don't blame them!).
I already did a discharge with the power button without it plugged in to see if that would get rid of the static if that's all that it was as I believe static can cause it to not start apparently, but it didn't help.
In a picture I see what appear to be two capacitors labelled CD3656 on the PCB right where the AC adapter wire unplugs from the mobo although I can't find any with that exact # online but it does bring up pictures of similar ones, do you think maybe those are the culprit?
Also I've read that in order to truly get static out of the computer that the battery should be removed to do so if while battery attached didn't solve the problem even though battery is dead, any thoughts on this situation?
I could open it up again and try the battery removed and also try plugging it in without the battery installed - do you think this is safe?
I don't know if you get this far into these computers as far as replacing components on a soldering level but any hints or tips you might have, I'd really appreciate it - thanks in advance.
I don't go that far component level repair. Plugging it in without the battery shouldn't be an issue.
Thank you, you helped me a lot. Finally, I replaced my LDC screen. 💯
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