Acer Nitro 5, dead, no power - Manufacturer refused to fix it, can i fix it? 

Unfortunately not. And the answer is clear. Remove the shorted capacitor = x$. Motherboard replacement = XXX$. I think.

You could still replace the mother board and replace the capacitor for the next acer

yep ...

it's more money in the short run but way more in the long run @@AlexCooper_83

Facts😂😂@@AlexCooper_83

So what I did, decades ago, having the same problem with my daughter's computer, at the time it was not laptops, but a big box with Win 98, knowing nothing about, I brought a book about computers, and learned. Then The first laptop I repaired I had it in pieces in a trash, with power connector having burned the mother board. Also I had built three computers before for me and my two daughters, and repaired some others for my students at school in my classroom. Sorin is the channel I chosen to learn more about laptops, you can go to other and older videos explaining other issues that can have happened on your mother's computer. In my experiment, it's rare that a computer is totally unrepairable when everything is clean on the motherboard. So opening it gives you a look to some basic things, clean, verify screen, battery, keyboard, power connectors, liquid damage, temperature sensor, buttons, SD card reader broken, power button... And after , shorts, power not present, are also basic things, I learned with Sorin , and I love how he explain things, and also the idea of saving the machine from death😺

california? northridgefix is nearby I think?

@@maklogetrich2378 they overcharge and apparently not really customer friendly and easily label as "no fix".

Sorin este Român și trăiește și muncește în UK.😂😂😂

Where was that exactly, I have the same issue?

You dont wanna replace them, do you

Have no idea, but asus laptops are really bad, and overall gaming laptops fail often doesnt matter the brand.

Gaming laptops are the problem, too much power in too little space. Working from the factory on their limit. With time some dust inside overheat one of the mosfets and you get a dead laptop. Maybe if you open and clean it ones in 6 month it will live longer ??

Newer Asus Zenbooks have a lot of display issues. You can't replace the wires, it has to be the entire display assembly.

I can confirm ACER has always had defective computers for the last 20 years.

@@WilliamBrwn what do u mean wires ? Same problem as MacBook's ? everything glued together ?

Good for u, less pain with PC.

Daca erai din Tm te ajutam eu

@@fliporflop7119 Chiar vreau sa imi gasesc de lucru in TM, imi poti recomanda un service

Funny how? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yL9rSwrsMHw.html :))

Funny in the positive sense of the word, of course it was about the capacitor, I unnecessarily bought books on capacitors from a Chinese man and now I laugh about it :) It's nice that you reminded me about this film, I'll watch it with pleasure

@@electronicsrepairschool The underlying fear they all have for this guy. Great scene.

If you could publish a list of components and where you bought them, might help others

Better find a different line of work. Sheesh

Dacă mai sunt mulți tehnicieni ca domnul Sorin, pe service-urile Acer scrie faliment 😅😅😅

When sth is short he just put little voltage and see when heat came from with thermal camera.....it is smart way

It's not really guessing, you can get there by logic. Like in this instance, if you see that the 19V power rail is shorted, you can THEORETICALLY put up to 19 in there, assuming nothing else is blown down the board, but that's not a good idea, because it's not necessary. If something more is wrong in the board and you accidentally send 19v to the CPU, I think you can guess what will happen. At least you will see some funny smoke. What he does here is to inject a really low voltage into the rail, you can actually do it everywhere on that same rail, doesn't matter if it's the current resistor or one of the caps across the board. Of course you want to do it after the mosfets because, assuming they are doing their job, they will cut the power if they detect a short and you know, you actually use this technique to find shorts so it would be pointless. The key here is to use current instead. You limit it, ideally you will use only the amount that you need, and different parts of the board will have different tollerances, but just make sure to use enough to spot the hot point without burning the layer of the board and you will be good to go.

probably the pch has to be replaced as the data lines from the usb ports, are going straight to the pch

​​@@electronicsrepairschoolmy acer wont turn on, when I press the power button it just blinks blue light 5 times in power led,when I plug charger is not even indicating it's charging Do you know what would be the problem

Look at hall sensor! Off to sorins forum!😀