Lenovo Thinkpad T470p dead, no power - Lenovo misdiagnosed the fault, intented? You be the judge

[@robertrent5218]

I never tire of "We have picture!"

[@rachidoublal6877]

thass Crazy

[@TheHalo14aus]

I can believe :D

[@AparatorulPoporului]

Das Crazy!!!

[@cemilkuscu]

You are the person who is wanted so needly in these days man, thanks for the perfect advices.

[@ctecrwp]

Master SORIN... I'm going through my Chemo sessions and really enjoying your quick videos almost daily..... Thanks for the excellent experience with you.

[@everyhandletaken]

Wish you the best with your treatment. Sorin is both a master & entertaining at the same time!

[@ReisHarman]

Wish you the best with your medicine treatment. Get well soon 🙏🏻

[@firzen0000]

Get well soon 🙏🙏

[@retrocomputinggrotto]

Big companies like Lenovo or HP or DELL would normally just say the motherboard is faulty and needs replacing, I've never heard of any of them employing staff to actually fix motherboards like Sorin does, they just tend to have FRU's rather than repair anything.

[@MishtarNoob75]

@@retrocomputinggrotto Uhmmm..Can I Ask What is the thing or liquid substance that they used to remove capacitor...

[@maybelbdidit]

@@MishtarNoob75 rosin flux

[@thehashslingingslaasher]

"we have the picture". That my fav part ❤

[@EmilChristensenHeaton]

"we have picture that's crazy" - Sorin 2024

[@comez1967]

Yeah...and missed ...I can't believe....jajajaja

[@alexgreis]

I love when he says this hahaha. Makes my day very good.

[@chrisgr00ver]

-2023 -2022 -2021 -2020 -etc

[@djordjelukovac8041]

😂

[@EmilChristensenHeaton]

@@alexgreis yes me too :D, I told Sorin to make a Shirt with this sentence and the logo with his face :DD but he prefered Pizza. I hope he can get merch 1 day

[@TomsA.I.-Arts]

Great Master Sorin - it is always a pleasure to watch your videos

[@mrNETWORK369]

WE HAVE PICTURE, THAT'S CRAZY🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@BenitoiteBaTiSi]

The MOSFET in the bottom right at 7:03 has flux residue on the top side, indicating it's generating a lot of heat. This could be the cause of the issue.

[@Madscientist9898]

The customer is BS. Lenovo would never try to diagnose a board and list what is specifically wrong with it. They will just replace a component such as the main board, memory module, drive, etc. not give some shady list of what they think is wrong. My thoughts are the customer poked around the bored a bit themselves after watching a few of your videos realized they couldn't fix it and made up some BS story packed it up and sent it to you.

[@Drottninggatan2017]

Still, the customer is always right.

[@c1q3]

@@Drottninggatan2017 customer is always a cow on a milking farm.

[@alienpioneer]

Yeah, especially specifying IC and pin number, lol.

[@everyhandletaken]

Definitely agree that Lenovo didn't diagnose this laptop, but I feel that it is more likely a repair shop with a Lenovo sticker on the window & the customer then believing it was a Lenovo-owned service centre. Either way, misdiagnosed, but the laptop now has a bit more time before retirement 🙌🏻

[@faustasazuolasbagdonas123]

I don't see why the customer would waste time making up that BS and pretend that it is from the service. I think this actually was in a service and he believed that this information will actually be helpful for Sorin. Maybe this was not a Lenovo service but a Lenovo authorized service center. Once I got an Asus laptop which the customer first brought to an authorized service (I think I verified this but this was a long time ago so I am not 100% sure now if I verified). The service prepared a report which had a photo of liquid damage on the mainboard. The customer told me that this liquid damage occurred long before the fault. The report also included a useless technical description of the fault, a repair price which was similar to or higher than the laptop price (which was 6 years old), and maybe their conclusion that it is not worth fixing. I fixed it by replacing an LDO. Then I carefully tested it and it worked fine. Until I returned it to the customer...

[@GabrielStefan-yb1vh]

Sorin, esti un vrajitor, ca intotdeauna! bravo!

[@silverjgbc]

and again these big brand's "technical service" shows me how they SUCK

[@MikeB_UK]

Nice one! Not sure I believe Lenovo would even bother doing in-depth board analysis.

[@JimmyBComputerGuy]

The Master is in the house!

[@filips7158]

I saw it immediately, burnt flux was visible on the video😅 when you started removing the wrong one I was like nooooooo

[@winlose3073]

It is working and I can believe🙂

[@fletch3576]

Why am I always so happy to hear those glorious words..we have picture 😅 puts a big smile on my face everytime....thank you sorin for sharing your excellent knowledge with us 🙏

[@c1q3]

Genuine brand new mosfet from box with thingys.

[@tiggydorset9041]

Its fingys, get it right :)

[@rud_01]

Hey Sorin ,was a test for you😉

[@g4z-kb7ct]

I'm surprised Lenovo even looked at that 10 year old laptop. Don't even bother taking anything back to the manufacturer if it's out of warranty as they won't fix it, or if they do agree to fix it they will charge a lot of money. For most people it's probably very easy to just buy another working motherboard for $100 or less since this is a 10 year old model and there will be plenty of used spare parts available at the usual places. In this specific case the owner is very lucky he has access to Sorin's services but for everyone else just replace the motherboard with a used one for very little money :-)

[@Key-Premise]

The model is 7 years old. At least get your numbers right when you talk numbers.

[@maklogetrich2378]

never ever Lenovo going to diagnose the board like that, mostly they just try to turn on the laptop and if it's not, they just charge you for a new board

[@g4z-kb7ct]

@@Key-Premise LOL! The laptop MODEL is 10 years old, released in 2014. The CPU is 7th gen which is 7 years old sure, but the CPU type is irrelevant and any board for this model laptop will fit. Anyway, before you try to make me look bad do something to make yourself look good. Hint: you failed to make me look bad.... when you have done as much as I have done come back here and we can have a man to man discussion about it. Until then keep trying and maybe one day you will amount to something LOL!

[@Key-Premise]

@@g4z-kb7ct Your embarrassment is hideous. Please seek medical help for that head of yours.

[@rfr653]

Good job mate 👏

[@SWARKA1]

Glumă proastă, rușine pentru Lenovo. Tot respectul pentru Sorin

[@user.fedorman]

Sorin is a master, but beyond that the conclusion is that if you have a problem with your PC never take it to an official service

[@gymstrengthhakim8453]

Very good sir

[@Mz-e1d]

What do you think?, Sorin no need to ask you did an amazing repaire

[@alf3071]

have you ever had your tip of the multimeter slip on another pin and damaging an ic? what would you do then?

[@DilnuwanAmaraweera]

superb thank you

[@trouble_maker023]

They got real experts sitting at the Lenovo repair centre

[@siddiqholm]

Sorin, Lenovo didn’t miss the mosfet… they simply didn’t bother and they felt it was far more profitable to sell a motherboard 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ouaddiakradaliazdine8280]

I say hello to Master SORIN

[@CB-yr4yj]

Hi Sorin, what are you checking on the coils after checking the main power rail ? Can you explain a little bit ?

[@poklop252]

buck converter coils is outputing lover voltage to supply something, 19v convert to 3,3v, 5v, 1,2v, 0,9v...... and he checkin resistance to main groud if the low power line short, somethimes is LDO converter chip 3v3 for power button, bios, chipset...

[@alf3071]

what caused the mosfet to get shorted in the first place? what if you resolder a new one and gets burnt aswell??

[@tall-jv4wo]

Nice one Sorin....

[@inanpolat]

Good Job...

[@fernandocastro-GPS]

Good job!

[@reversetransistor4129]

It's really complicated when you have, in a big company, lots of admins above you, in some cases they give you a small amount of time to fix the fault. They come with power points with graphs, yeah, some professionals, do copy pastes from emails as soon as the fault is complicated or go out of the script, lol. I am too slow for big companies, so they say!

[@Paul-ib5xv]

Sorin, can you pleas show me how your bench power supply is connected to your laptop charger?

[@andycollins2315]

that model takes 20v 3.25 amps on the charger?

[@poklop252]

PLEAS ANSWER: what power supply have low ohm COIL on left side of ram, and what voltage generate ?

[@ch2o2]

what's up, Lenovo? ,D ...btw, I like your handy "cooler" - is there a link for getting it?

[@4KPieEater]

I think the lesson here is find the fault.

[@MELONOLDER101]

Sorine Master of laptops rescuing what ever it takes even dodgy job can help your laptop to back to life

[@ricardomaldonado8185]

Thanks!

[@mikanikolic1976]

How do you always find what you need in that little box!?😀

[@poklop252]

following power, and not upload unrepaired 😞

[@CraShRO]

Salut Sorin! Acum ceva timp ti-ai cumparat un osciloscop, ti-a folosit la ceva pana acum? Nu stiu daca se justifica sa am asa ceva pe birou, sa nu stranga praf degeaba :) Multumesc!

[@JonnyMac351]

If you don't know than it's probably not worth it.

[@dirindirin3983]

Perfect

[@sergiomarianosergio2087]

professor, I have an HP board reference HDL 50 LA-D702P, it turns on in two seconds and turns off only for 2 hours, what is the professor's idea in this case?

[@repairstudio4940]

Legendary 🎉

[@chumatez]

Nice one

[@stevejones4618]

Warranty service don't look any further than just diagnosing an issue with the motherboard and quoting for replacing it. They don't go any deeper unless they are refurbing it to sell again.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

When the priority is "Get the repair out the door making profit for the company" rather than "What's the actual problem?" (I call them "Parts Chuckers")

[@Lackooo84]

I bet at Lenovo they didn't even take apart the laptop....

[@مبكيلالكاش]

Thankssssss

[@amirmooti5719]

Very good 👌👌👌

[@lucataszarek8782]

Hello 🤝Good Job 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👋👋👋👋👋

[@samsscia]

Another great fix! 🍕🍕🍺🍺

[@patriciaoudart1508]

❤😂 That's crazy LENOVO 🎉

[@mihaioleniuc1642]

Very Nice! 😎😎😎

[@pjhb_microsoldering_portugal]

Good one Sorin, Lenovo shame on you!😂

[@michaelkarjaluoto8582]

You are the best

[@pauldery7875]

Easy pizza, Lenovo should buy pizza for you Sorin. Awesome video again. Paul, USA!!!

[@m.i.b7689]

Just curious y he talks abt pizza , is it his fav food or pizza means something else😮

[@pauldery7875]

@m.i.b7689 i guess he likes pizza.

[@indigenoushightech]

Yeah Le'NoNo! What he said!

[@SymbolTech21]

Sorin ! But why that MOSFET died? What make to die that MOSFET? Because ok you find the died component but did you find the reason why the MOSFET died?

[@fabini14]

There is no reason, just old parts, mosfets is probably one of the things that fail the most.

[@SymbolTech21]

@fabini14 if a MOSFET fail there is a reason. So soldering in a new MOSFET may can work only for a week and then fails again so definitely you need to identify also the reason why that MOSFET died to eliminate also the cause that makes that MOSFET to die!

[@poklop252]

​@@SymbolTech21 manufacturer flaw design, thats why this 20A mosfet dies

[@SymbolTech21]

@poklop252 no on earth that a laptop will draw 20A current so if this MOSFET died is because something in the circuit after the MOSFET have a problem. This means that need to investigate what is wrong on that circuit that made the MOSFET to die

[@poklop252]

@@SymbolTech21 spikes are over 50A when you plug-in battery there is nothig to limit amps from capacitors all over the board, sometimes mosfet and ceramic capacitors and chips get shorted on power-line

[@DARKNESS19906]

Master of electronic ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@DrTeddyMMM]

As with a lot of companies now, they are not in business to keep old devices working, they want to move you into new devices... why have you pay a few $$ when they can have you pay more $$$$ and keep their profit margin high... a win for them... Is the company going to invest 1 hour of time finding the fault or 1 minute to sell you a new board... it's all about the bottom line...

[@m.i.b7689]

“Llllllooooooiil” sorin 2024

[@sniper5406]

We Have Picture T-Shirts When ?

[@prosolder]

big companies has experts only for changing parts not for fixing[ and they are paid very well and they know only 10 percent on electronics] ,so Sorin knows that as we others know so why judge them 😂😂😂😂

[@amielem]

16:02 redundance matherboard designe?

[@Pihmusik-PiCh-Expert]

[@alanvandusen76]

Lenovo sold that model with two battery choices. The standard and extended one that is installed here.

[@hardroch1000]

We have picture🤣🤣🎉🎉🎉

[@haccus9913]

Hai Sorin you can make a video how to read and right ec chip with JTAG soldering wires on motherboard for Lenovo laptop like x1 yoga gen 5 as example mec 1663 chip

[@poklop252]

you need schematic of chip or prepared pins on motherboard

[@haccus9913]

@ i have sematics but it didnt work like example 3.3 volt line witch cable to put if somone can make a video of it whit good explanation i sorin is e verry profesional 🙃 he gives good explanations also his dogy repairs are profesional

[@TheDurdane]

OMG. Pin 1 blown up? Uh... Pin 1 is actual 3 pins and there is no visual damage? They probably rely on the customers' ignorance... Ethics, ethics...

[@filda2005]

10:00 you did not missed this one ;)

[@Rob-q2e]

These Big Company’s like to rip people off when it comes to repairs

[@4KPieEater]

I should add that that tin of brand new pristine components has had a lot of airtime recently and should have its own channel. #betterthannew

[@gregmckenna3858]

I tossed a Lenovo desktop computer out my front door years ago because it was such a problem child it broke into pieces, and I never bought another Lenovo product. 😁

[@waiyan-b6w]

Lenovo IdeaPad 300 power supply amp 35 still while where checking part

[@theroguetomato5362]

If anyone ever invents an indestructible mosfet, you'll be out of a job. LOL, it's always a mosfet or a capacitor.

[@etw.leonelle]

I don't think that Lenovo, Dell, HP... have qualified specialist technicians, as I noticed that they hire no more than a child and barely disassemble the devices and don't know what's going on!

[@gboyabraham568]

Can I get thermal camera for 200 dollar with good resolution

[@orange11squares]

yes, infiray p2 pro.

[@poklop252]

where is under 200usd ?

[@orange11squares]

@@poklop252 aliexpress on black friday, that's how i got mine.

[@Matthew_T24]

Nicee

[@SamiTM]

Sorin vs Lenovo ro0mba... What happen Lenovo, you got owned???

[@udoka4909]

Was a fake diagnosis to sell a new motherboard ;)

[@Foxx_69]

Haha. Nice fix with that “new” mosfet!

[@natanielsoares702]

is this an EZ pizza? 🍕🍕🍕

[@sergiomarianosergio2087]

I'm Angolan I don't speak English very well I need your idea

[@MrFluorescentify]

Lenovo they cant fix it , by 80 pounds, for more they can.

[@paljortsering9312]

Iz pizza!😂

[@Sofian375]

Fake diagnosis to sell you a motherboard, sad...

[@Denise_in_progress]

Do they even have a warmth camera @lenovo **real expert? No ,the one who's a real expert is sorin. #Lenovo #failed