Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop, dead, motherboard repair - How a lucky customer looks like!

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[@user-pe3yi7hn1s]

How the hell can someone come to this channel and complain about the beeping from Sorin's multimeter ? That honestly blows my mind ! Thats like someone watching a cooking video at some channel and complain about the blender noise or the microwave beeps or the timer dinging . . . . . .

[@securities8101]

Hello Electronics Repair Shop, I thank you a lot for making this video. You helped me find a blown SMD Capacitor on my motherboard, which has saved me over 400 pounds. I am going to be buying a replacement capacitor and a Hot air gun so I can de solder it and replace!

[@duplicitousdemocracy2246]

"I can't believe...." some people would whinge about the volume of the 'beep'. Myself, I can believe that we live in a world full of people who complain about minor issues while the important occurrences in our lives go right over their heads. Your videos are a wonderful source of both entertainment and information. Your sense of humour is on another level.

[@nikoladobrev7540]

I think some people may watch it to relax and go to sleep. (asmr) And that beeping its the only thing that can really get you on your toes if you are half asleep.

[@Boro87]

@@nikoladobrev7540 yes, it wakes me up

[@Boro87]

You complain about people complaining, which makes me think you are a fool

[@barkerxsa7002]

Sorin, we are well because you just uploaded a new video, and your multimeter continuity test is music to my ears - every single beep. If an electronics channel didn't beep I would not be beeping back!

[@GlishaSo]

hahhahaha lol that's called Sorins addiction many of us are like that for years haha :D

[@TheKosssteK]

not the beep is the problem. The problem for me is that it is too loud compared to Sorin's speaking voice so everytime I see him measuring short I remember to lower the volume because high pitch loud constant noise is irritating after a while for many people. So it would be good for me and I think many other people if it would be balanced out a bit if it is possible.

[@adr207]

no video is boring with you, Sorin, i discovered you recently and you are, as british people says, a national treasure! Lucky them to have you!

[@kevhauser8058]

Many customers must be very happy when you help them Sorin....cheers

[@MrRvdbeek]

Love to see you happy about this kind of laptops that is working. Have a great weekend

[@4Relax]

Sorin put his work on next level, started to replace capacitors. 😮

[@vandehoek]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TheClahey]

Thanks, Sorin. Have a great weekend.

[@galacticpeace8459]

Have A Nice Weekend Sorin - thx

[@gabrysur]

You always say that the power supply speaks to you, I'm starting to understand, i always learn something in your videos. I have 2 customer laptops to fix today, i started my business after whatching your videos

[@LPgmxDan]

What tools did you get

[@gabrysur]

Hi Sorin, Thanks for the video

[@JW-nc5rm]

Superb job Sorin. Great eye to see that crack. One lucky customer. See you for coffee tomorrow my friend.

[@roche1237]

Keep it up Sorin, good stuff

[@StefanSolomonsz]

A very nice video Sorin to start a new month...

[@MrAltjay]

nice job what a lucky customer, I like your thermal imager the screen is wide.

[@Erabada]

Love to see you happy

[@rfr653]

Good job mate 👍

[@morejohnson6870]

Thanks for posting

[@SantaClaw]

I love that screwdriver btw, I have the same one, and the previous model of it. The ES-121. That ES-15 is great

[@housinit]

Love my ES121, but really want an ES-15 also.

[@wackey2k10]

Lol, i have this laptop, never thought you'd ever cover it. I'd love to send you my acer predator helios 300, it turns on but screen is black and nothing on external monitor either, fans work. However it's been put away for 2 years, has mold on it and a lot of the plastic is broken off it. could only imagine it turning on and working.

[@benaumark]

شكرا على مشاركة هذا الفيديو المفيد جدا تعلمت منك الكثير وكلمة شكر قليلة في حقك

[@SuperLinuxAudioGuru]

Brilliant job :)

[@mihailelea]

Sorin, please tell me what camera do you use for filming these vedeos. The camera that is pointing at the bench. I'm watching almost everything you post on this channel, you are a true value to the electronics community.

[@fadedninna]

I love your vids!

[@florinalbu8659]

Cel mai bun content!

[@mm0077]

Have a nice weekend and happy coffee morning.

[@Sorin388]

Nice job!

[@platineshop]

Had the same experience on one Macbook Pro 2019 16" 🎉

[@carlosgarciaoropeza5480]

(19:32) People actually think I'm not actually replacing the capacitors (😊lol). Excellent work. A sincere congratulations. That PCB is expensive. Thank you very much for sharing. All the best.

[@karltest1314]

Sorin, if you thermal cam allows, adjust the colours so the red on the screen starts a good bit into the current black area (cold tenp range, just set it above room temp - say 27C). this will make it more sensitive and show up lower heat levels

[@Ateagno]

👍👍

[@MattyEngland]

​@ My Cancer Journey Bot

[@nichevl]

Nice to see a video on this laptop, thanks Can't see though precisely where the probe points are placed on the motherboard 😞 Also many meters beep when below a certain resistance which doesnt necessarily mean a short, ie it would of interest to see what the display shows if on Ohms or if on diode mode ie V drop as some meters offer a beep if Vdrop below some value Edit: The top left display wasnt on long enough to see if it was a full short or just low resistance which might indicate not a complete short, you prob know your meter better than I do re ohm scale -> beep Ah ha - I see the power points across either of the two 25v rated electrolytics to the immediate left of the input 19v jack :-)

[@ronaldkahwa3610]

Nice job dear

[@tes20295]

Good job

[@Dr.muthanna]

the magic of thermal camera

[@chrisn812]

Great Video Sorin. I have nearly the same thing Acer Predator 300 I want to take a crack at solving. What model is the adjustable power supply your using to inject power onto the board?

[@DarkGT]

Visual inspection can save you a lot of time in those lucky repairs.

[@ec1976]

😁/👍🏼 big happiness seeing picture on screen after big time dead session

[@stefanputureanu9296]

As a recommendation.. it is good practice to check for short between the main rail and all the coils on the board before injecting power into the main rail. If there is a short found, the coil can be removed and in this way you can save whatever is on that line when you inject power, or you can backtrack your shorted mos-fet for that coil and replace it.

[@markusreichel3896]

Bigger capacitor does not necessarily have a larger capacitance. It may also have a higher voltage rating.

[@Adrian_Buliga]

Suntem bine, te asteptam live :D

[@MichaelCzajka]

Just had my Asus Tuf Gaming Ryzen 9 laptop repaired out of warranty. They changed out the entire motherboard without clearly identifying any fault... after first replacing the PSU (which seems to have fried the motherboard while failing). They seem to have accepted that the PSU was failing while under warranty (it was playing up)... and replaced it out of warranty. They also replaced the motherboard out of warranty (gratis): Maybe they have a known manufacturing fault that caused the problem and felt a bit guilty? I've had a few of these kinds of failures in the past mostly (but not exclusively) on Asus laptops. All my other Asus equipment (motherboards, routers, etc...) is very reliable. It's really annoying if you just spend over $2K on a laptop (which you barely use and treat with kid gloves)... only to find that it fails out of warranty (~8 months). Either way I'm very grateful that Asus was so reasonable. Laptop failures appear to be way too common: Failures seem to mostly occur out of warranty (2 years on this laptop)... so the manufacturers usually don't have to deal with them. It's probably limited to certain models? Gaming laptops? You seem to suggest that Mosfets and capacitors are common culprits. The capacitor you replaced appears to have died because of a manufacturing defect. Is this common? Or are most failures due to user error? Pity warranties are so short on even high end laptops? Credit card purchase insurance can cover some of the gap... but realistically the manufacturer should address this issue? Short warranties (many/most are only 1 y) encourage manufacturers not to care about failures in years 2-3. A 3 year warranty would suggest that the equipment is built of quality parts Safest strategy seems to be to buy a second hand laptop on the assumption that if it's lasted this long it won't fail any time soon? ...plus it's cheaper. 🙂

[@MrDeadrage]

happy week end sorin . nice lucky gamer pc :D

[@sarockpashotan]

Hi my dear teacher.your videos although is a bit longer than other laptop technicians but are really great. And I am gonna to ask you one multiple question and hope you answer me. If someone ask you which laptop technician will you believ in him and his repairing knowledge or his method in successful repairng or may be you watch his videos sometims for being a better technician and get more experience altogether? What would you say?

[@aag180]

I have a question. Is it a good idea to put thermal pads on components like chipsets and others like those little black chips in order to prevent them to overheat and fail? I'm talking about those chips which don't have thermal pads on them from factory.

[@daz41262010]

lucky customer had Sorin to repair his laptop :)

[@screen-protector]

I've watched this video only because I have 1 nitro 5 here atm. My customer was rude, but I found mosfets shorted. Didn't even had to use thermal camera. They were on the main 19V rail. The first one did get 19V and released only 2V. I'd fix it and test if that's the only issue, but, with my customer's attitude, this is back in one piece again and a no-fix for him. Not sure if there's a recording about this problem with this Nitro 5 even.

[@icommandoi145]

Yea I don't complain about the continuity test beeping but it does get annoying when it's too long now that you mentioned it. Probably should have said anything :D

[@chickenhenhen2534]

Awesome 🫰🫰🫰

[@jorgegarreton9460]

Oh yeah Sorin..I was sure you were gonna leave the mobo without the capacitor!

[@William51115]

NICE ONE!

[@silviuguseila2552]

You should do something to muffle the beep on the meter instead of "using it less as possible", would that not make more sense?

[@jaym5938]

People complain about the multimeter noise in diode mode? Absurd. Let them go to other channels. There's no point in them being here if their sensitivities impede repair.

[@elitecol69]

How do you know exactly where to inject the voltage?

[@Kemai-sq1en]

sorry can i ask, what are the causes for the capasitor become short? sorry bad english😢

[@demarbrown2673]

The tool is suppose to beep to indicate a outcome. Please leave it on because some of us need to learn. Those who complain about that clearly only think about themselves.

[@acalat]

I'm interested in the Bois programer. Can I ask from where please

[@jozsiolah1435]

My acer gaming laptop 2.1 ghz amd runs for 1 h 15 min at regular use , and 1 h 5 min for average gaming, 35 min if I play cod 4 on battery. I swapped the cells to Asus battery cells, pink capacity is 2.2 A, others support 2.1 A. 11.1 V can be formatted to 10.8 V, quite hard. Acer needs 10 discharges in Windows, 11th discharge in Bios. After some cycles of this method , new features turn on by the battery's eprom, supporting better gaming, faster video card, less fan noise, less heat, and also deletes regional blacklist of cheaper laptops. It is the elite mode, starting back in the old days, with the Compaq LTE Elite laptop, the elite mode depends on how the battery was calibrated with this method. A coil is heating up at the display in bios or dos mode. In windows, the coil is off. Recognized by the battery's chip, acts as a yes/no in Bios. The number of these features could be 10-20, so it needs 200 discharges in Windows, 20 in bios to turn them all.

[@supergeekjay]

I have a Nitro 5 AN515-51 that I bought on eBay. The guy had been using it with the screen surround falling apart, the left side was completely detached and the screen mount was damaged. The screen cable had been trapped. He said, "doesn't power on", but it does. The backlight didn't work. I could see with a torch the "No bootable device" icon, so I replaced both the screen, and the screen cable as I didn't like the condition of both. I've also replaced the hinges, lid, and bezel. There's still no backlight. Is there a fuse somewhere?

[@kemi86]

Hi, I have same laptop after i replaced the screen it doesn’t turn on. Charging lights show when I plugged in and the working lights turn on for 5 sec after I press the power button. Any idea? I tried the bible of acer troubleshooting of discharge battery, cm battery disconnect , ram replacement none help.

[@minhquy3864]

Can you guide the sound of dell vostro 3400?

[@vicenzoofficial1512]

cum pot lua legatura cu dv pentru acelasi model nu functioneaza placa video..

[@nasavids76]

First and foremost I truly enjoy your videos. I'm a visual learner. Is it possible for you to show us how to remove an HDMI port from an Acer Nitro 5. I connected my Acer into an HDMI extender and I think I crossed it and now my laptop won't power on. I would love to fix it , having a hard time removing the HDMI port.

[@securities8101]

To remove it, you have to desolder the HDMI port. It shouldn’t be too hard with a hot air gun if you have one on hand!

[@teslasapple]

S is for Sorin…S is for Smoooooooooth! 👍

[@jmi2098]

Too easy for Sorin, thanks for démo ....😋

[@asv5769]

Sorin, why are you talking about 1, 2 or 3V with shorted Mosfet, when you have only 0.9 V PSU voltage? Voltage drop was from 0.9 to 0.3 V. What % in voltage drop signals shorted Mosfet and what shorted cap? Thank you for the explanation.

[@electronicsrepairschool]

because of the ohms law, in order to push current in to a resistance, you have to have certain voltage, if you have a shorted mosfet, then in serial mode the cpu or gpu, there you have around 4ohms, so you will have to higher the voltage in order to push current

[@kamrankhan-ud5vd]

Beep short on the board, another educational video thanks

[@afnobs]

dear my laptop is acer es1 572. problem is its wont power on and not even charging, no power or charging led indecator show. while i try to repair it a little burning smell was blown for just a secound and after that its totally dead(no led indicator light up). but i belive the motherboard can be fix. what can i do for this setuation, please kindly give me some suggestions.

[@eugrafcmg]

Do you have a hdmi output on camera to add into OBS?

[@electronicsrepairschool]

Yes

[@shadd5510]

I have a Lenovo Legion 5, but recently I have been facing an issue where, when I play games while plugged in, the battery light starts to blink as soon as my GPU starts. So, when I am playing the game, it just keeps on lagging and getting stuck. Now I know that it is not a battery issue since it happens while the charger is plugged in. So, tell me what is this issue? Any sort of suggestion or help is appreciated.

[@wartlme]

My server was shutting down unexpectedly. I removed the backplane for the hard drives. It was missing two 1,000 nf caps. I replaced them with two 2,200 nf caps. People think I am crazy, but it is for power rails. I tell them it is better. They ask how I know. I said I understand electronics more than they do.

[@KeiLin11]

Well... Sorin will replace all the thermal pads and thermal paste later.

[@johnpiettro4644]

"The story with the gaming laptops is capacitors and nothing else..." Why is that? What's the difference between the gaming and not gaming laptops when it comes to capacitors? In both of the thare are number of capacitors that can fail.

[@bobtruck1594]

Are gaming laptops a terrible investment due to high heat and costly repairs? Are towers better?

[@jrstolpen]

great.

[@morrisedwards5856]

What is the story with the gaming laptops :o

[@androiduser1412]

I also have a gaming laptop and because I'm a damn idiot I made a contact between a capacitor and the heat sink, someone can Tell me If that can be fix or I just have to think on buying a new laptop?

[@seckinseckin3919]

"Dont worry i will change the capacitor(later)" - Sorin

[@SidneyCritic]

Yeah, too loud. Put some tape over the buzzer hole, because with my tinnitus it is quite painful.

[@xspinmubeat2412]

Its acer nitro 5 an515-57 I7 11800h rtx 3050ti version Last night when i was finnished using my laptop, i turned it off and unpluged the power cabel (i have it pluged in all the time when i use). the laptop worked perfectly. this morning when i tried to boot it up, it showed no signs of life. usually the power button lights up but not this time. i pressed the little nova button on the side of the laptop using a paper clip, still not booting. disasebled it, removed the battery and tried with only the power cable, still no go. i have done every electrixty drain method listed online without any results. i noticed that the little led no longer lights up when i plug in the ac cord, so it might be the psu? idont have access to another ac cabel to test it out but i doubt its due to it because it worked normally 8 hours earlier.

[@xdshawk]

Today I had same issue. In the middle of the game ( world of tanks ) nitro 515 55 shut down instantly and now not turning on no leds no power leds nothing... Any fix you got ?

[@Messenger_of_Allah313]

Actually all the thermalpads should be changed and also the paste. Laptops usually have a very bad cooling solutions and everything should be very optimal. Even then laptops usually throttle. That acer nitro is not a very powerful machine, only has few heatpipes, Laptops always have cooling problems after few years of heavy use.

[@retrocomputinggrotto]

So, do you or do you not replace capacitors as in loads of other videos you say you dont and you even did a video specifically about capacitors saying there are more capacitors than are needed for FCC testing so I have no idea what to believe any more?!

[@stevejones7112]

And you don't even replace the thermal paste ?

[@jacovkennealy21]

Do you guys expect repairs from us if you do how do you get it over to you my computer dhop said my montherboard fried and is unrepairable so i wanna see maybe you could fix

[@RFPSNvRANDOMVIDEO]

Sepertinya acer nitro banyak yang memiliki masalah mati total. Seperti pada laptop saya, bahkan teknisi dari 3 tempat yg berbeda merekomendasikan untuk membeli motherboard baru😮.

[@RobertoMartinez-lj4qx]

5 amperes y ese capacitor no calentaba, muy loco

[@markwojo727]

Capacitor I think

[@weerobot]

Sorin Replaces a Capacitor ....What is The World Coming Too...??

[@RafalScrapper]

👍

[@loverboykimi]

Hi Sorin. How can you know that was shorted cap and not mosfet/cpu/gpu. You said low resistance in PS. Could you explain what is the difference cap resistance versus CPU/GPU resistance in short problems?

[@Electric-Bob]

So Sorin...how is your Beer Money doing these days? 😂

[@DumahBrazorf]

Well, maybe the customer hit the keyboard in rage and damaged the cap.

[@manaandharikossam]

Sir i am servicing a laptop shop sir sir i got acer nitro5 display damage ai came to me sir i put a new display in that laptop the whole thing went to no display sir what is the problem sir can it happen or not

[@pihmusik]

[@princemansuri6658]

Hello sir... I am from India and I have an acer nitro 5 2021 ( ryzen 7 5800H 8C 16T, Nvidia Rtx 3050Ti 75W )... So my laptop's CPU is damaged by third party eng.. When I went to repair my laptop my laptop had only screen brightness problem. And after that I came to know that it overheated my Ryzen CPU so the CPU got damaged. so I am asking to you that can my laptop motherboard repair by any chance. can I get the used CPU from anywhere please help me. Help me....🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@vladpalfey8061]

Unbealieveble. I just bought a new acer nitro 5 with an i 9 and now i am waiting for charging 😆😅

[@rageabra1372]

Yes we know the story of a gaming LAptop... LOL...

[@ralphj4012]

Better than factory. Clearly a bigger capacitor means has a bigger capacity, ho, ho

[@midoriyaakadeku5603]

My acer nitro 5 is not charging nor is it turning on. it's been barely a year and 2 months since I bought it. I checked it with the local repair guy, He said the cpu is shot. I am desperately searching for ways to get my laptop back running, So anyone pls tell me what I should do. Please.

[@securities8101]

If the CPU is bad then it is too late. You need a new motherboard.

[@borisdg]

This laptop is hot mess inside. Nowadays all is built so bad.