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Rant: found a shorted board trace after 6 hours of staring at a schematic
Last Friday I had a server mobo that kept killing RAM slots, everyone said replace it, but I traced it down to a blown cap near the DIMM header on a board from 2019. Replaced it with a $2 part from a local shop in Cleveland and it booted clean. Anyone else waste a whole day on something that tiny before?
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patricia429d ago
Had a buddy with a Dell laptop that kept shutting off random. He tore it down like three times, swapped the battery, tried different chargers, all that. Turned out to be a single bent pin in the charging port that was shorting out when the cable wiggled just right. He found it after giving up and just staring at the thing in defeat, lol. Cost him nothing but like two weekends of his life. Wild how the tiny stuff gets you every time.
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