Acer Predator Triton 300 - Customer replaced the thermal paste and the laptop died, what went wrong? 

lol

I saw that grin as well. Satisfying

You spoke when you should have been silent...

I still ask myself, why didn't he replace the fuse?!

He used a proper calibrated fuse. He knows what he is doing.

@@rickoneill4343 This fuse helped the customer have his notebook repaired, preventing other things from being damaged. Now the next time the fuse is short-circuited, many things will certainly burn, making the repair much more difficult. This is the same thing as not putting a protection fuse in your home installations or simply replacing the fuse with a thick piece of iron. This idea of ​​doing this is definitely a mistake. It is very easy to put a short circuit and finish the repair quickly and not think about why that fuse was placed there.

@@rickoneill4343 He didn't. He shorted the fuse with a wire!

@@fernandocastro-GPS Exactly.. He doesn't know why it happened the first time and this means it might just happen again..

proper calibrated scratch

Fuses actually can die of old age, or a defect. They follow the bathtub curve too. Metal gets stressed and worn by high current, that's why your toaster and kettle elements wear out. Startup current is stressful for electronics, especially when cold.

@@supergeekjay I agree but going by the spec this laptop can only be a few years old. The more likely reason is an underated fuse or the wrong type of fuse. Antisurge fues were used in TV's etc to handle that initial start up surge also low value resistors were also used in series for the same reason. In this case i suspect that the type/rating of the fuse was not correct, Sorin's calibrated piece of wire would have been a better choice !

Only the best, guy has earned it

Hard to believe. The short circuit should have been after the fuse, not before it.

A short at the conector or in the screen cable would blow one of the resistors near the connector, not all the way up the inverter. I've had it happen on a Nitro 5 recently.

There's fuses near JEDP1, the display connector on the motherboard. I had a Nitro 5 with one blown right up in pieces. It's a 19v high current circuit.

He didn't bypass it. NEVER BYPASS A FUSE!!! He added a very very thin wire which acts exactly like a fuse.....

@@g4z-kb7ct that wire, you are right still a fuse, but can carry ton more amps than the stock fuse :D

@@user-kr8tp3ko8z "CAN CARRY".... maybe. Do you have evidence to suggest it does? Otherwise your comment is pretty pointless and a waste of time typing it. You are suggesting Sorin is an idiot and doesn't know anything about current.... try to think before you comment in future.

I think he preferred to replace the fuse with a properly calibrated wire because of the risk of heating the area too much. Do not forget that it works on the screen. On the other hand, he could use "my little friend" to remove the fuse...

@@panaitepaul6798 A small part like a fuse or resistor or capacitor can easily be removed with just a soldering iron by adding solder then heating both sides. It's a common technique well documented. When in very delicate areas even larger parts like TSOP48 flash ROMs can also be removed with just a soldering iron using another technique that I use, which I developed :)