Trying to FIX a GAMING LAPTOP - ACER Aspire 7 -A717-71G-58U3
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Hi, in this 'trying to fix' video I attempt to repair a gaming laptop sent over from Finland by Jari. It stopped working whilst gaming, and never worked since. It is a ACER Aspire 7 - A717-71G-58U3. It doesn't charge or power on.
It is a lovely looking laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060 with 6GB GDDR5 VRAM, so hopefully if it can be fixed it will still be a very capable machine.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.
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Rumors. I thought that my logic would be to say the first thing out of my mouth via those family or friend games where you just blurt things out!
I'm gonna guess that it's a river.
"I don't know anything about laptops" ...proceeds to carry out competent component level repair to motherboard... Nice one Vince!
He is a genius with his adaptability
I like humble people 👌
😂😂
Your excitement is something I miss about fixing something. You're a great joy to watch work my friend. Keep it up.
Lewis would be proud of that fix, he always says look for anything that looks wrong
Finding a shorted cap by visual inspection alone, well done Vince!
That was genuine excitement when the charging light turned on. :)
Thanks Andre 👍👍
the excitement is so damn relatable. love it
Great eye Vince on finding that cap. I think SMD capacitors are the biggest pain when it comes to board repair. No printed values and most times no visible signs of damage. I am always happy to support your videos!
Thanks Todd 👍 Yes they are hard to find, but at least when it comes to the soldering they are easy to replace. Cheers for the continued 'Massive' support 👍👍👍👍
If half the repair shops knew as much about repairs as you do, the manufacturers would be in serious trouble...
Hello sir, please can you try and make your videos in english ? you do top repairs but I don't understand german
@@mohsentabouna6401 Pity RUclips can't translate by now...
@@typicalpctech6674 it can but not very good
@@typicalpctech6674 I think electronics language is easy I just hope he would talk a bit of english, I know he is already doing a lot by making videos alone but his work is so good I wish he could speak a lil even bad english would be perfect
@@mohsentabouna6401 Hello, I will not produce English videos. I am in first line service, not RUclipsr. But I'm working on English subtitles, It's going a bit slow as I have to translate all manually, with timing, but 1 video already translated: ruclips.net/video/v6esWRkHMic/видео.html
I love your genuine excitement every time you fix an item. Even though you are extremely competent at what you do, you are still excited at a fix. It is as if you are surprised your efforts worked. I am never surprised that you fix something that can be fixed.
Vince is either extremely lucky or getting very good at these repairs. Been watching for a few years now and his skills are getting top notch he also has the patience of a saint. For me it would of went in the bin after half hour of looking 😂
Ditto !!
@mister kluge I've been buying Alienware laptops and fixing them, usually motherboard problems, and its zero pacience to check whats wrong lol. I just go to Aliexpress and buy them from there
micro part like that took it down, lost for words but not suprised. well done again. love vids. you keep saying not an expert but do better than fix shops i been too .
The apprentice has become the master! Great fix Vince! You have come a long way!
You never let me down with the full blown excitement from fixes! Keep it up and keep them coming!
Love how far you've come during these last few years, great fix :)
@28:20 that's the feeling I am here for .. feels so good :)
well earned fix
I jumped from my chair like if my team make a goal! what a great fix, thanks for so many fun vids like this one Vince!
The second i saw that cap i knew that was it ... the discoloration was a clear giveaway. Fixed a ThinkPad L570 in the same manner a few months ago. Bravo.
Excellent work! Could hear you starting to get despondent, then when you spotted that cap (amazing work there Sherlock) it was all suspense until the magic moment. Love the excitement from you when it worled! And you are right, when you watch someone like Sorrin fix one, it seems so easy. Well done.
Nice laptop for the price and good fault finding. It's amazing how far you have come.
Thanks PDS, I still massively struggle, but all the comments from yourself, and the others, teach me and lots of other viewers. Great little fix it community we have here 👍👍👍👍
Fantastic fix Vince, nice to see you hone in on that cap and find the fault. Personally I'd have been lazy and just injected voltage lol
is voltage injection to see if there's any short?
@@StromboliKicks Yes. It should result in the component getting very hot, which aids in identifying it.
@@StromboliKicks yeah as James says, if you inject voltage the shorted component would draw an excessive amount of current and get very hot, then you could either scan around with your finger or use a thermal camera to find the hot components :)
Cheers Coder, can't beat a fix like that. I loved it 👍👍
I believe that lump of solder allows you by removing it to isolate the previous power stage for troubleshooting. Thanks for the video.
I loved so much the part of the video when the laptop turns on and he claps of joy :D
Nice work! If you've not done so yet, add a second identical memory stick for a noticeable performance boost (you only showed one but that might have been only during testing).
Thanks. It still only has the one at the moment. I need to buy another 👍👍
You should definitely accept more stuff from viewers. It's quite nice to see something expensive that's not a scam from ebay like the MSI laptop😃
Amazing how this tiny little thing broke the whole system. And you found the actual fault at first time. Brilliant!
The quality of the casing appears to be a million times better than when I worked at an Acer repair centre
these are quickly becoming my favorite repairs
Not that it affects you too much with this fix but be careful with the voltage ratings of ceramic capacitors (the brown boxes you were measuring and replacing). The capacitance drops hugely with applied voltage on certain types.
When repairing old computers and consoles, I will selectively replace some electrolytic caps with ceramic and have to be very careful about voltage ratings especially on outputs of audio circuits. The most egregious design I saw was in the Sega Game Gear with electrolytic used in series with the LCD having tens of volts DC bias and almost as high signal swing.
Additional fun fact: those two MOS-FETs you were probing in the board were the twin external switching FETs of a synchronous buck (reducing) voltage regulator. Typically, these are used where very high currents are being delivered and reasonably high efficiencies are required. There's no risk with a short on the output of those as the regulating chip will detect the output short and put the part in a failsafe mode to stop excessive current causing damage (which will be why the shorting capacitor didn't burn out).
Love it, you can practically fix almost anything. I know computer repair services that won't do what you do Vince, they just send them off to the manufacturer. Well done..
My ''so what I am going to the is...'' man! I really enjoyed this video.
Acer is specializing in easy to die electronics, nice job as always :)
Fantastic, Well done Vicne. It is a pleasure to hear you squeal with excitement when you realized you found the problem...and quite quickly may i add
You have definatly come a long way over the past several years that i have been following you. well done
Very good repair !! I recommend a power meter that you can connect to your electrical outlet for measure the current that a device draws.
A boot able USB stick with LINUX to start a PC / Laptop would certainly also be useful and in such a case I would always change both capacitors if they are so close together
Awesome fix Vince! Always satisfying to get a good result, especially on complex hardware like this. Most of the laptops I get in for repair have blown ICs or water damage - nice to see a relatively easy one for a change :)
Thanks Count, I was very lucky with this one 👍
The wifi card right next to power and fans is a staple of great engineering.
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good fresking job dude, so nice too see your excitement
I love this repair videos, specially this laptop ones. Im amazed how far you have come
Hi Vince, just suscribed. I am Paul from the North, Littleborough near Rochdale. Well done for all you do, you have got me started again.
The GPU in my Acer laptop only runs at full speed when the power cable is in so you might get even better performance when yours is plugged in.
there is an option called performance on battery settings. It allow to run you pc at full speed!
Yeah, but its for a good reason. Ive reduced my battery's health to 94.8% in 4 - 5 months playing games while using the battery.
It's best just to keep it plugged in while on games.
@@lemurmad Also make sure to not keep the power cable plugged in at all times because keeping the battery at 100% will kill it over a long period of time. That's what happened to my laptop's battery after 3 years, it couldn't even last for like 5 minutes on battery.
@@DMadHacks I always leave it plugged in, and it seems to have no effect on the health. As I used to do the same with my old thinkpad that is 8 years old, and HWInfo reports it having 82% health. So maybe it varies on some laptops.
Also it could be damaged from heat while charging, so maybe the laptop overheated?
@@lemurmad oh wow, interesting
it's probably heat then since my laptop does get very hot, it even managed to warp some metal which caused the plastic above it to crack off lmao
Wow great eyes noticing that capacitor, very nice job mate 👍
Dude, when you plugged in that power cord, I leaned right in to see if the light was on. Your jump and clap scared the sh*t out of me!
Great fix! I will definitely keep this information in mind should my laptop randomly stop working!
Man Ide be so happy to fix something so nice this easily. This is better computer than I’m working with right now and you paid next to nothing in comparison with its actual value.
I am amazed that you would be able to pick that one out of all the other ones there. If I was to look through it there would have been no way I would have noticed it and probably just chalked it up to being dirty.
"as always the wrong amount of thermal paste" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nice fix! :)
tronicsfix will be furious!
I can't believe it was just that tiny capacitor killing the entire system. I was sure you were on the wrong track because that whole thing looked like a ground plane, but I was very impressed you got it fixed. Congrats on the new laptop :)
Hey Vince, I have an Acer Aspire V From around 2016 and it's wonky, and sometimes if hit hard enough on the trackpad it will short out, turn off and won't show signs of life unless the laptop battery is unplugged, although the battery might be unplugged for only a second the laptop will then start normally working like nothing ever happens, it short out for the record breaking 7 times and still is alive to this
day
I also had a gaming laptop (Asus ROG G751JY) die on me once when I was trying to install an M.2 SSD to it. Thank good it was under warranty. That thing weighed over 4.5 Kg and it's power brick was literally the size of an actual brick.
Congrats on your repair. Shorted caps on laptops aren't that uncommon, especially those small tantalums (IIRC, that's what they're known as). Problem is that they're often pretty hard to find, you got very lucky this time.
Hope you're proud of yourself. Well done Vince
Thank you Sir!
Every time I trouble shoot a high end laptop I always check the mxm graphic card just to make sure it didn't pop out of place.
Excellent repair. A visual inspection goes a long way with those caps.
Goes from the Switch killer to the laptop saving god, great vlog Vince.............
Hahaha, I have some Apple MacBook's on the channel soon, so I think Mac Killer will be new name!
Nice price damn. That sound of the most happy person in world now that was very great to watch.
Li-ion batteries if drained to zero, will start charging very slowly. Its on purpose because a 0v state is considered a fault and could be a sign of a shorted battery and that's dangerous. Not saying it is just why is charging at .2v. Good work finding the issue and fixing it.
I love the fact that you had the stones to try another one of these. Good man!
The pure excitement when that light turned on in your voice is reason enough to try and fix things! Beats any "unboxing" experience. I've never seen a repair video before but have been tinkering with computers for 25 years now. I had no idea those mats existed. The amount of damn screws that I've lost or rolled away, or the amount of times I've stolen tuppaware or plates from the kitchen to store them in! I had no idea how the multi meter helped. I suspect if you give it a detailed visual inspection for burns this type of fix will be gold. I think my hands are too shaky and too many neck issues to attempt something like this myself - but it might make me braver next time something I really like stops working.
The guy after seeing this video: "Hey... So... can I have it back?"
Why , is he a masochist ??
@@MrTarmonbarry ............ I think your on the wrong channel here mate!
@@KBFix I am subbed to this channel , and i have the right to make whatever comments i like as long as free speach is allowed .
Mate
@@MrTarmonbarry yes but...... Masochist!?
Also *Speech
@@KBFix Picking up on the wrong spelling of a word word , are you that pedantic or just desperate to have the last word ??
It makes me smile and happy to see your attempting to fix things. Your very good at it. I've been a fan of yours for a few years. I wouldn't know much about continuity if it wasn't for you for teaching me.
That one was fantastic. Fixing up laptops always gives you that rush!
Well done 👏 I have just stumbled upon your channel, its very interesting. I've fixed my walkman and discman because of your videos. My ipod generation 3 is next. Got a new battery to stick in and hopefully it will hold a charge. Thanks for all the videos.
Quality fix Vince, great job 😁😁👌
Cheers Joey 👍👍👍👍
Amazing job, Vince! can't believe you found that capacitor on the first try!
Absolutely brilliant Vince. Excellent repair, sir.
As always great to see an awesome Try to fix by Vince, Laptops are nothing short than a nightmare for me over the years ... maybe one day il have the patience to attempt a fix like this ha !!! Brilliant vid.
16:15 i was screaming that since the first beep, of course you would notice it too. Great repair mate!
I'm from Finland too and awesome video as always!👍👍
Me too 👍
Buy a thermal cam & u can find shorted components easily. Or u can touch each component after applying power. Or u can even smell after applying power, hot components can be idendified.
Great discovery and repair Vince. You are the Gold Standard. 😁
Hahaha...maybe the bronze standard!!!! Cheers buddy 👍👍👍
Isn't it great how the smallest of things stop big things from working? I had a clock oscillator fail in a bus ECU and it was brain dead without the tiny crystal to generate clock ticks! A massive bus turned into a paperweight because of an ANT sized component! 😂 That capacitor is the same with your laptop. I have a Nitro 5 coming in with the same completely dead symptom, I hope the fix is as easy! Great job!!
I'm so amazed! You are inspiring me. I have a couple non-working laptops that I'm going to poke around on. If you didn't live so far away I'd send them to you to make a video about. I'm afraid the shipping would be $$$$$$.
These capacitors are placed at the input of the switching mosfets of each power source to avoid feedback that contaminates the main voltage rail, if one of them is damaged it is not necessary to replace it.
Another great video Vince, impressed by how you found the fault
Good to see a win... watched loads of yours with fails!... get both ran and higher capacity mvme and good very cheap laptop
Notebook video is Also Very Nice to watch...
TKS Vince to bring for us this kind of videos....
Vince, just a top with laptops. Always try to turn the laptop on with it plugged in and the battery removed also. It could be the batter is dead and the laptop won't start from a dead batt. Just some advice!
as soon as i saw the video is 40min i knew it will be an easy fix ... from iraq big fan keep it going 🖤🖤
Great fix, nice troubleshooting on this one! In the past year or 2 you've come a long long way Vince. :)
i said to myself ! shorted caps i watch a lot of rossman i thought it might be the larger black capacitors but amazingly you did it again .well done vince
brilliant fix for cheap vince nice job i genuinely love the yeah its working lol :)
Wonderful job there Vince in getting this laptop fixed and working again. Well done. I can't wait for more.
that's a brilliant repair! congrats Vince. 😎
Love it! That's the exact laptop I have. Now I know the first thing to check if it happens to die suddenly.
When done Vince. Love the Celebration! Decent little laptop for a tonne
You really are a very intuitive fixer of things. The rest of us wouldn't even have thought to look that far, never mind to take the trouble to see if that one miserable capacitor was the problem. Well done! I am enjoying working my way chronologically through your try-to-fix videos, and learning a lot. Mostly learning to have the guts to keep trying. You're not related to Robert the Bruce and his famous spider, are you? Thank you!
I don't know if you are aware but no matter the laptop or computer you can boot into a windows installation media in the uefi/bios but I think your issue was that the USB ports were disabled in the uefi/bios so you couldn't select the USB dvd drive to boot windows from. Great vid vince!
That was really brilliant and interesting to watch. Seriously that was good viewing!
Very well done Vince! :)
Don't forget, you had +voltage shorted to ground. I doubt it did any DAMAGE to the battery, but it probably tripped the protection circuit. Nice fix though dude. good AND lucky job! xD
I love the enthusiasm in your voice 🙂 awesome man. Feel sorry for the previous owner, can imagine he got in the bath with a porsche toaster after watching this 😂👍🏼
Vince, you are a beast. Your troubleshooting skills have come a long way.
You got that awesome beast for 100 Euros, plus postage?!?! You're right, watching another more experienced tech - Mr Rossman, Paul Daniels, NorthRidge, & others - make it look easy, but when you are testing, taking apart, & troubleshooting, it's a lot different! Its self encouraging when you fix something! You may get a pulsing VDC reading in the battery as it may or does charge by a pulse. You got a great deal! Thanks & I subscribed! 🤓
Well done Vince, your getting better and better with these fixes.
Amazing fix Vince! I was hoping you wasn't going to ignore that flux residue, you were quite right, that would have got real hot at that point.
Cheers Paul 👍👍👍
For what you paid finding just one little cap I would be just as excited!!
@My Mate Vince in the video @22:00 the 3 caps on the right of where you are working are most likely a duplicate of what your working on, so you could tombstone the two big ones to measure them, and find out if your guess about the capacitor size was right.
Well traced. its so rewarding when a fix like this occurs.
Vince, you are a genius. Well done!
You sir... r the best. God bless you and your family!!!
It amazes me how many repairs you have were it is a ceramic capacitor that is shorted.
That’s a bloody good laptop for 100 Euro’s! Good spec. Very usable. Good fix too.