Guys, some hardware #HelpWanted (or rather, advice). My #motherboard burst into smoke 🔥 and now it's okay 😮
🧱 So, I had this problem where my laptop went completely unresponsive: no charging, no powering on, no indicator lights, nothing
🔌 Tried a new power adapter + opened up and line-tested the power socket but no response
🔥 Decided to connect up and try once more. Battery + other indicators finally came on...and also a mini explosion with smoke! So I quickly disconnected
👢 Came back after half an hour and (for no logical reason) tried again...and this time it booted up! (Only till BIOS, because no drives connected yet)
🔍 On inspecting the board, I see a burnt-up SMD called "C588", which I'm assuming is a capacitor
📖 No circuit diagram for my motherboard (#Thinkpad#X230T) but the diagram for a similar(ish) model (#X230, the non-tablet version) seems to say C588 is part of the voltage regulation circuit, in parallel with a couple of other capacitors
🤔 Either way, my theory is the capacitor was shorting, preventing anything else from powering. And when it finally burnt out, the other circuits started to work
❓ Question being, is that a valid hypothesis? Or should I check for other upstream problems?
🔩 Thinking of reconnecting and running sans that capacitor, atleast until I get a replacement cap. Internet tells me capacitors are for smoothing power and can be managed without (of course I'll seek a bit more expert advice first!)
@danct12 interesting! I didn't know (or wasn't fully aware) that smart/dumb charging was a thing. I did use two chargers so let me check what kind they were again 👀
Do you mean one USB port stopped working and the other one was fine?
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@bradlinder oh that's cool! I've been hoping for Elipsa updates for a while (even though I'm yet to get an Elipsa in my hands 😅 I will be in the coming week though!)
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Facinating to watch a potential #RedditMigration to the fediverse. The #Lemmy and #Kbin teams are dealing with all the same issues that Mastodon and other fedi microbloging sites did - but in even a faster timeframe as much of Reddit appears to be set to go dark on Monday. Questions of how to onboard, questions of centralized vs distributed onboarding, questions of how to explain servers and federation, and deep questions of how to scale if traffic is anyting like it could be Monday...
@ajsadauskas@rmdes@tchambers hey, does #kbin actually federate? I tried loading a post here to react to it but it's not working, neither in Mastodon nor Akkoma :mastodon_oops:
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