Trying to FIX a GAMING LAPTOP - ACER Aspire 7 -A717-71G-58U3 

Spoiler Saver + Riddle What always MURMURS but doesn't TALK, always RUNS but never WALKS, has a BED but never SLEEPS and has a MOUTH but never SPEAKS?????

"I don't know anything about laptops" ...proceeds to carry out competent component level repair to motherboard... Nice one Vince!

Your excitement is something I miss about fixing something. You're a great joy to watch work my friend. Keep it up.

If half the repair shops knew as much about repairs as you do, the manufacturers would be in serious trouble...

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.

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 soon as i saw the video is 40min i knew it will be an easy fix ... from iraq big fan keep it going 🖤🖤

the excitement is so damn relatable. love it

I'm from Finland too and awesome video as always!👍👍

Lewis would be proud of that fix, he always says look for anything that looks wrong

Vince, you are a beast. Your troubleshooting skills have come a long way.

Wonderful job there Vince in getting this laptop fixed and working again. Well done. I can't wait for more.

The guy after seeing this video: "Hey... So... can I have it back?"

Vince, you are a genius. Well done!

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.

Finding a shorted cap by visual inspection alone, well done Vince!

That was genuine excitement when the charging light turned on. :)

the wrong amount of thermal paste... I saw what you did there :D

Very satisfying video bro, keep up the great work!

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!

I believe you create your own luck, I think your subconscious mind knows what to look for!

I really enjoy your laptop fixes

The apprentice has become the master! Great fix Vince! You have come a long way!

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.

Another great fix Vince. loved the video.

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).

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 😂

Love how far you've come during these last few years, great fix :)

"As always, the wrong amount of thermal paste" 😂

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😃

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 .

Nice laptop for the price and good fault finding. It's amazing how far you have come.

Good stuff! Gratz on the new Laptop! :D

I find it absolutely amazing what can bring a computer to its knees

I enjoyed watching this. well done!

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).

Great work mate👍 not sure how you spotted the capacitor being cracked as they are bloody tiny!, watched this while replacing a linx 1010b screen for a mates daughter 😁 but I appreciate the time and effort you put in to your videos, keep up the good work 👍

Hi Vince, consider buy 100euro used CAT S60 smartphone with build in thermal camera. Bench power supply + CAT S60 = short found in seconds

"as always the wrong amount of thermal paste" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nice 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!

I just replaced a screen on one of these yesterday at work

@28:20 that's the feeling I am here for .. feels so good :) well earned fix

such a shame for such a nicely spec laptop, you could run Cyberpunk 2077 on that easily

I need someone to fix me internally. My guts , brain , and lungs are crapping out...

I loved so much the part of the video when the laptop turns on and he claps of joy :D

Acer is specializing in easy to die electronics, nice job as always :)

For what you paid finding just one little cap I would be just as excited!!

You never let me down with the full blown excitement from fixes! Keep it up and keep them coming!

The quality of the casing appears to be a million times better than when I worked at an Acer repair centre

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

I believe that lump of solder allows you by removing it to isolate the previous power stage for troubleshooting. Thanks for the video.

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

My ''so what I am going to the is...'' man! I really enjoyed this video.

these are quickly becoming my favorite repairs

When I watch Vince buying and to try to fix expensive things, i feel like the money were mine...

🧐🧐🧐🧐Eyeloop master🧐🧐🧐🧐 Always blur how much thermal paste you put on and how! Great job thank you!

good fresking job dude, so nice too see your excitement

Wow great eyes noticing that capacitor, very nice job mate 👍

"so lucky" That's not luck, that's experience.

Notebook video is Also Very Nice to watch... TKS Vince to bring for us this kind of videos....

So far I have watched two of your videos. Both featured an Acer computer. Never buying Acer.

Hi Vince good job on the acer 7.I wonder can you fix something different ...,like a cellphone,pc motherboard(desktop) and xbox 360 controllers.thanks for all the great videos.

Greetings from Finland! Did you add other Memory stick? ...to use the "Dual Channel" memory... Anyway. Really nice Fix! Here we don't have analog TV channels anymore so we did use and some still do use a "DigiBox" to convert the Digital signal to analog for the TV. Some of them come with PVR(Personal Video Recording) options and so arent just converters. But those are comeing really old now days(as i'am not even sure you can buy one these days), so maybe some of them you can find faulty, for your next videos...

Wishing it was this easy to fix my GT72-6QD, spent a load of money to restore it to good health, New screen 120hz, new Chassis after the hinge failed, new battery. Basically the only original part left was the mainboard plus trackpad and that decided to middle finger me a few months later. Trust my luck right.

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.

great job finding it by eye lol if you haded 19v to the 19v rail that cap would have been hot to the touch faster way of finding a fault you was very lookie must have wanted to fix it so bad i get this joy the moment somthink turns on and love reinstalling a dead laptop after i repaired it

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.

was I the only one who discovered his channel when their joy con rail broke? (I think it was the joy con rail but it is still unknown why my joycon stopped working it wouldn't even turn on)

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.

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

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.

Great fix! I will definitely keep this information in mind should my laptop randomly stop working!

try running HWINfo64 on that Laptop and look at the wear level of the battery...

Good to see a win... watched loads of yours with fails!... get both ran and higher capacity mvme and good very cheap laptop

16.50 You say: I don't know what I'm doing, so my question is why don't you get a little educated and then get a job like that

I love this repair videos, specially this laptop ones. Im amazed how far you have come

@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.

I think the capacitors in parallel get added making that about 22 uF total I think.

Nice this good video gaming Laptop Gaming good

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 have an acer laptop like this too but I have to use my old Core 2 Duo laptop because the damn backlight failed.

that button on the main board was to reset the battery which has the same effect as removing and putting the battery back in

wow thats better than my aspire e15 with intel hd gfx card lol

brilliant fix for cheap vince nice job i genuinely love the yeah its working lol :)

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 :)

You need to buy a lottery ticket Vince!

close to mine ACER Aspire 5 - A517-51G-80GG

You sir... r the best. God bless you and your family!!!

Be vary of that pack. They really don't like life when you discharge them that deep. Expect a puffer fish in the near future :)

Nice Video, I won`t spoil it for the other viewers, I knew what the fault was from the start 👍👍👍👍👍👍seen the fault very early on the video, That's the right value for the cap, If you ever need the schematic let me know 😁

You are Lucky men,and i like it.Good luck forewer

(Ron swanson throwing computer in dumpster meme)

i must say you have made me swear by arctic MX4 paste! i never go anywhere without it

The rust on the board leads me to believe the board has never seen liquid before.

Quality fix Vince, great job 😁😁👌

You need to put at least 8 gig of ram if not 16 gigs in - a bad 10 cent capacitor is all it was - far out

7:02 SW2 looks like it shit the bed could be on the charge circuit

Hope you're proud of yourself. Well done Vince

Everyone should know what ipa is 😃

I have an old acer aspire laptop that only works when the battery is pre charged with no power otherwise, despite a known good power supply. I wonder if it is a similar problem?