FREE BROKEN Laptop - But Can I Fix It? Acer Nitro 5 No Power (Gifted From A Subscriber)

[@heavyarms55]

Impressive. When I saw the burned out Mos I thought for sure it was damaged beyond repair! Well done!

[@Random_4400]

same lol

[@Random_4400]

@@girlsdrinkfeck makes sense or that wouldn't have been fixable

[@adriantjuuh]

Hahha it’s an “ Acer, beyond limits “

[@nickarganbright7218]

I'm just curious, what do you think was so wrong with the donor board that it was still a better choice to fix the other one?

[@heavyarms55]

@@nickarganbright7218 I couldn't say. But it probably didn't have anything burned like that on it.

[@djdrwatson]

13:19 I thought the fireworks were because it was about to blow up! I didn't think the repair was going to work and you were having fun and making it up as you went along. Well done!

[@Vandstein]

I also thought it blow up... 😅

[@SiETechNotebookReparatur]

Nice, I like to repair such burnt mainboards :) However, I am also rebuilding the tracks. The separate wire before the first mosfet leads to a diode before the charge controller IC. This is also where the voltage from the battery comes to the charge controller. The charge controller IC then switches the input mosfets through from this voltage. What is a bit risky is that you now have a 30A MosFet installed where the original one can handle up to 75A. It can lead to another failure later on.

[@einfachgaer2]

Not only the rating of the MosFet, but also the wire thickness worries me...

[@SiETechNotebookReparatur]

@@einfachgaer2 It's just an extra fuse... :)

[@einfachgaer2]

@@SiETechNotebookReparatur Yeah, maybe it saves the MosFet from fusing again. But the laptop wont be able to run at full load for long... :D

[@AnonymousRepair]

Agree 100% but you need to match the rds on as well, higher rds will cause the mofet to heat more, lower one would be better

[@ijapsdjhkahbefajldas]

I think 30 A is more than enough, since this is the first mosfet of the 19v rail. 19v come from the charger and it can only supply like 9,xx amps I believe. RDS ON is the most important thing here

[@frenkinaki5071]

maaaan i really enjoy this one! i cheered up when the LED turn on, it was super satisfying. I'm about to recive a set of tools that i bought with a lot of effort cuz i believe in repair, i always did, i'm from a lil city of Argentina, here aint that easy to buy nothing, so repair is always the answer. recently i got the ambition to learn and you are a big part of my inspiration. thank you so much for showing and i hope you have a good one.

[@Tronicsfix]

Great to hear! Good luck with your repairs!

[@BuyitFixit]

I've always repaired stuff for years, but only recently started doing videos on it. Glad I'm not the only one who believes in repairing stuff! Great repair video @Tronicsfix.

[@nicoaravlad974]

I hope that you already follow NorthridgeFix 🙌

[@how_its_fixed]

These sort of fixes always feel good, not only doing better than a different shop but also doing what many people won't.

[@beefsheep]

Awesome repair man! I am very impressed that you were able to recover from the lifted pad! Though I am a bit surprised you didn't put down a bit of copper tape/foil and some epoxy to make the repair a bit better. Either way, that would have probably made the discovery of the via way harder and I am still really impressed

[@chasefournier]

That's Awesome Steve! Most of these "repair" shops aren't capable of doing this kind of work. Good job buddy 😊💯

[@marcogenovesi8570]

"""""repair"""""" shops

[@aviostpl8720]

They often are but they don’t want to risk 170$ for laptop worth 400$ and waste time

[@Tronicsfix]

Thanks! This was a fun fix.

[@larkan511]

You'd end up paying several hundred dollars in labor to have a repair shop do what was done here. There are a lot of cuts in the video, we have no clue how long it actually took to do this but I guarantee it wasn't under a few hours. Long story short, any repair shop with intelligent workers would've found the burnt board and told them to scrap it.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@fictitious0 If the repair costs half the price of a new device (which is what such repairs would cost), yeah nobody is willing to risk paying half a new device and still get a device that is a "no fix"

[@hermanwooster8944]

I subscribed to you 3 years ago (it'll be 3 on June 2nd) and I must say that I love watching these videos! Very enjoyable to see a successful teardown and your dogged determination to solve the problem. Congrats on the success and the 1 million! :)

[@DreamMidnightGaming]

Man that was basically magic, that laptop was dead to the point of no return and you somehow revived It. Truly impressive. 👍👌

[@ernestoestrada2281]

Hey there! Amazing job fixing this ACER laptop! Just came to comment your video in order to give you support and letting you know I make part of my living fixing laptop's hinges problems and also I repair broken plastics. I'm from Cuba and here is almost impossible getting parts or replacements so we have to figure out how bring those broken laptops back to life again. My goal is always making my solutions look like they came out like that from the factory and my guarantee for my customers is FOR LIFE. If you would like to know more about this just for curiosity let me know through out answering my comment and let's see if we can get in touch and I can show you a set of photos of my work... you'll be surprised big time! Keep it up and I'll be waiting for new videos from you. Cheers!

[@cloudstrife2005]

Honestly speaking I'm happy as well to see you able to fix something which seems impossible!

[@DragonProtector]

agreed!

[@gandalfwiz20007]

This is the type of repair 95% of users won't fix. Job well done!

[@morid0]

I had a very bad experience with a nitro 5, the price for the specs was hard to beat but whenever I play games it became a damn volcano probably due to Intel processor, after many tweaking I manage to bring temp to a reasonable level (had to take a hit on FPS on many games) but if I had continue gaming on it as it was out of the box I would certainly had fried something since a normal temp was between 90 to 95 degree delicious whenever I played anything.

[@Backup_Jack]

Thank you for these videos, I bought a "broken ps4" from ebay, when I got it the disc drive was just loud when a disc was in there, cleaned it out and it worked like normal, I watched your old videos to help guide me when taking it apart and putting it together.

[@Kinsanth_]

What a madlad. Thats nothing short of amazing work

[@Phobos_Nyx]

You are so good at this. My ASUS Rog Strix got fried by power surge and a repair shop told me they can fix it, then they called me and said it's complicated and finally they stopped calling me altogether. I had to call like 4 times to finally get an answer...yeah, we can't fix it. They had it for 6 months! They gave me back my laptop and I found out they didn't put back the HDD so I had to contact them again and tell them they better still have it (they did). That repair shop was an absolute nightmare, never again.

[@Rocketmang]

The first fireworks fx made my heart skip. I thought the motherhood shorted out. 😆 Good job on getting it working!

[@10100rsn]

Something else to watch out for. Some of these mosfets have a diode that lets a small amount of current pass in one direction even when switched off and these diodes will sometimes fail while the mosfet itself still functions as a switch. This diode is useful in some circuits like power input protection circuits where you don't want reverse polarity to destroy anything. Some people just bypass the mosfet in those circuits completely and call it a fix or add a diode to across the source and drain that lets power through to the circuit that actually turns the mosfet on. But definitely need to watch for hidden vias.

[@ryanb509]

The fact that you continued once the pad tore up was impressive. I would had assumed that board was done for at that point. Though I wonder if it wouldn't have been easier to fix the "parts" board you bought instead at that point and used it as a replacement.

[@XxTWMLxX]

@@Nighterlev yes he did for 170$ to get the original replacment mosfet... but never said why it was a parts board.

[@vgamesx1]

Well done, that via was easy to miss and yeah you rarely need an exact replacement for a mostfet, so getting a donor board is unnecessary, however you do want to at least make sure it's the same type (n-channel vs p-channel) and the same pinout then preferably as close to or better voltage/current ratings, also unlikely to be an issue, but worth noting there could be problems using mosfets with different gate voltages or different on/off delays but if it doesn't work just find another and try again.

[@cheli7503]

it's always fun to watch this kind of repair that it looks like almost no way to be fixed, but you fixed it! i hope to see you do more repair on laptop or other computer hardware! 🤘

[@leayrn]

Dunno what pleases me more, the fact the you actually fixed it or that you're trying to add edits to your video to spice things up. Kudos man.

[@ttppro1985]

Dude your soldering skills are perfect no matter how ugly this one was you sure did a 10/10 resurrection of that board. I’ll keep watching this video on repeat

[@colinboneham7387]

Stunning work Steve, that mosfet to blow like that and meld too the pad is something I’ve ever only seen once before and it blew the whole laptop so too fix it is great work.

[@1987FX16]

Fun fact about Nitro5's. There is a pressure switch under the asdf keys that will prevent the computer from booting. It'll power up, keyboard lights up, hear it running, but no screen no boot sound beeps or anything. Press with about 10 lbs on the asdf keys. If you Google it this is a semi common problem with the Nitro 5. Had mine in my backpack sitting apparently upside down and the keyboard bowed or something.

[@sebastianuribe-uRiBiTo666]

I'm impressed, I thought it was a lost cause when the mosfet ripped out the copper pad, but you fixed it anyways. I really wish this type of repair was more common place, 95% of that computer was still good.

[@awilliams1701]

wow I've never seen a component die that far before. I've seen minor cracks and things, but not to the point where it fuses and half the component just pops off. crazy! I wonder if you could fix my 2019 laptop. I have no need for it anymore. I wasn't impressed with it when it worked. Now it just turns on and then back off. I have a much better laptop now. But I couldn't bring myself to toss it.

[@NanoMine]

He was lucky that it only took the first layer off. On macbooks you'd have multiple layers and a burned MOSFET like that will take out a bunch of those layers, which will definitely make that board unrepairable. Very professional people can still build those layers but it would be extremely skilled job.

[@tobyle4737]

Soo how do you need burnt the mainboard of acer nitro 5 then

[@rotsono]

After you said something about a possible explosion and sparks, i somehow wanted to see that, but im actually glad it didnt happen. Really cool repair overall, would have never thought it will work again after seeing the damaged chip.

[@ItsMeMars]

Gotta be honest here: I thought this laptop was just dead. But you did amazing here reviving it. If you don’t know the password Steve you can just reinstall windows of it from a USB and the admin password is gone and ready. Congratulations Steve by fixing this one.

[@D4rkS7der]

Actually there is a hack, where you can replace keyboard on screen app (which is available from login screen), with CMD. You can then use command line to change password. This replacement can be done by summoning command line during installation of windows (which you dont need to complete).

[@ItsMeMars]

@@D4rkS7der this is actually patched in the later versions of windows 10 (21H1 or whatever that version is called) and in windows 11 it’s fully patched out bcuz of the TPM/TMP requirement.

[@D4rkS7der]

@@ItsMeMars Good to know! Still worth trying I guess :-)

[@mars_12345]

This CMD method allowed me to recover access to my laptop a couple of years ago. I have mixed feelings about it being fixed :D

[@DecibelAlex]

you can force windows into recovery mode and roll back to factory settings

[@Randalthor811]

Steve I'm working on my sister's nitro 5. Her daughter bent it in half. Replaced the screen enclosure, screen and cable. Waiting on webcam to arrive from the UK. Also had to replace wifi wires. Naturally giving it a good dusting and going to put the "perfect amount of thermal paste."

[@fabricatedego]

Always love seeing the success. We all know the true problem really was the lack of the perfect amount of thermal paste.

[@gavins9946]

This is one of your best repairs. I thought you had no chance on this one.

[@mcslender2965]

I'm impressed that you were able to figure out the wiring for the MOSFET.

[@nerdlord2288]

Always enjoy your videos! Guess you got to fix laptops since you fixed all the broken game consoles worth fixing 😆.learn alot from you and hope to be your competitor one day😉 I'm sure there's plenty of broken electronics out there for both us

[@TheFiftyQuid]

Nice fix! I thought this was going to be a disappointment video, but you pulled it off!

[@appleapple3855]

I didn't think you'd be able to rescue this one. Great job!

[@Dragonorder18]

Seeing that single part burned out did remind me of when the Fan controller burned out on an old laptop. But dang, that piece was seriously fried!!! It's amazing that it was actually able to boot up after that kind of damage and that patch job on that module! You've got an amazing skill fixing boards.

[@smashICE1]

Great job that shows, that even such a brutal mess is repairable. Well done!

[@Other442]

Wow, this was an truly impressive fix man, congrats! There's absolutely no way any repair shop could have do this job.

[@Talmiior]

I really enjoyed that repair! So satisfying as well!!

[@yesno8204]

I like that you didn't give up and was able to finally fix it. That is why I love your videos.

[@G_Machine_Joe]

Yay! I was yelling "There's a via!" and you found it 😁

[@Tronicsfix]

I was yelling at myself when I was watching this back, lol

[@Ebolachicken]

love the work you put in it hope you got your money back you deserve it

[@traek8742]

I love that you are willing to experiment with the electronics and see if you can fix them. I am impressed with your success rate. Keep em coming.

[@andrebella]

This is awesome! Lots of work put on it and it was really cool to see it work out in the end. Cheers my guy!

[@hcabrerab]

Man, that was a crazy repair! Congrats!

[@fabianthoene]

Would be interesting to see the thermals with the new Mosfet & your cooling concept 😄 Nice to see you revived this laptop! Congratulations 🎉

[@sebastianmarquez3014]

Wow Steve, who knew a little light coming on would be so satisfying to watch... good job!

[@bobodotveg]

AWESOME JOB 💓 I wish to see more “ fun experimental “ things like that 🥰

[@guidope288]

I’d love to see like a workshop tour with all the spare parts you have laying around.

[@itswoodimf]

man i'm learning so much from you, you have no idea. keep em coming

[@superconductives88]

Nice work! Wow I did not expect you to pull a rabbit out of your hat at the end!! 👏

[@robertd1970]

Well! Looks like I’m pulling mine apart now . I’m sure it’s something different, my luck , but what the heck ! Gonna see. Last time I had it apart I was hesitant about taking it completely apart. However , it can’t get any worse ! Thanks for the vid !

[@vincentcloud]

Wow man that Mos was really broke. I have seen quite a few damaged laptops(some mine) and nothing that bad. Good job on repairing it.

[@giltyascharged]

bro idk how you came up on my feed.. but i truly enjoy your videos. definitely subscribed

[@michaelcasey5983]

Great job and Video!Love you're New special effects😎

[@Stunbunny]

Your videos are like the nerdiest detective stories… and I love them!! Thanks!

[@wissker202]

Seriously that was best repair I have seen so far wow 👌

[@raddaks2039]

Yowzers that was a burnt MOSFET! Makes you wonder if it was lightning damage or something. Congrats on the fix! I didn't have the highest hopes after seeing that pad come off.

[@alexispariona7436]

0:17 You could've used a hairdryer to heat them up and then It'll be easy to remove.

[@EveryDayRetroGaming]

I could listen to you say mosfet all day. I can't tell you how shocked I was to see the screen turn on!

[@frodo_banggin]

Honestly, rebuilding charred traces is just a pain in the ass. Even if it's fixed for a while, it could just fail again at any time due to vibration and heat. Especially around these power MOSFETs that generate massive amounts of heat. But it is always fun to see something that could end up in the dump get fixed.

[@trr4gfreddrtgf]

Wow... that is impressive, as soon as I saw that motherboard peel away, I thought it would be impossible to fix, you clearly know what your doing lol, good job! Will watch more.

[@ramyromeo9846]

That's awesome let's goooooooo the feeling when you worked soo hard and never gave up on this laptop is awesome great work keep going love your videos and looking back 2 years ago when I first subscribed you gained alot of knowledge which is awesome love the spirit ❤ man keep going

[@radius.indrawan]

Man, this one is an awesome fix! i thought it would be a no fix... great job, Steve. 👍

[@nicolasbautista3943]

I never doubted your skills.. I knew you could fix it

[@cinlung]

Do more laptop fix videos. I love it when you succeeded where others have failed.

[@tambias]

Thats a great fix steve,perseverance is certainly your strong suit.

Nice, a huge fix at last, been hoping for one for quite some time! Well done and also I commend your patience, I would have been over with it within a couple of minutes! :-)

[@12345.......]

I was hoping to see the issue with the screws through the case. Needs a tronixfix sticker on it now.

[@Ghyus01]

Woooooof. Some major magic smoke release. Great job on that repair!

[@kordny02]

Very common problem on this motherboard (Sienta or Freed I believe), usually there's a also a shorted cap / mosfet down the line on the 19V power rail, probably already burned out / it was a short from the case instead. The transistor gets shorted through and the charger being just strong enough to still power the MB / charge the battery would just continue working with the transistor continuously burning until the point of complete death like on this one. Compal would usually comp-ensate (get it) these for Acer with how common this problem was, until they finally started using a different charger IC.

[@Tyletoful]

I'm am electrician just getting into board repair, could you explain the term "charger ic" to me? That'd be greatly appreciated

[@DirkMensonides]

Incredible work! I would like to know the overall specs of these laptops when you fix them, but still a great video!

[@mathiasschneider9113]

Congratulations on the fix!!

[@OnlyTypical0]

The best part about being able to do things like these is the fact you can buy 20 broken gaming laptops for the price of $500 and repair them (If you already have the tools) for $20. But even if you still have to buy the tools for it, if you got the skills and time to do it all then it's hands down worth it!!

[@DecibelAlex]

worst case scenario is that you'll spend 500 bucks on junk that can't be fixed.. it's always a gamble, especially with laptops

[@jasoncohen5469]

Then you can probably resell the broken junk again for $500

[@Blind-Ambition]

Awesome video. For a minute there I thought it was going to turn out like a few others where you fixed it until it broke.

[@techstuff7414]

If there's enough space once the motherboard is mounted in the case, maybe you could stick a tiny little heatsink to the mosfet with double sided tape. It really wouldn't need to be big at all considering there wasn't one from the factory.

[@quentinl.9072]

Nice fix again ! very enjoyable to watch.

[@humathecat8180]

Great job, always nice to get the win. I pumped my own fist when that light came on!

[@kevkevdellarocco8681]

Those airhorns @ 2:45 🤣🤣 Well played Mrs. TronicsFix

[@ericbolton9512]

That's awesome! Good job. These videos are great. I am hoping I will learn a lot watching them.

[@Shadowfax1804]

Great repair, very impressive - but what were those metal studs behind the monitor panel?

[@SupremeODMG]

Man what a gift, im still using a lenovo thinkpad ive had since 2015 its hanging in there but i need a new laptop bad lol. Youre a beast as always.

[@home1927]

that laptop was trouble for sure.feels good to see it work again

[@HanxoHaxashi]

Tbh I was surprised to see that the laptop was fixed. Never expected that and kudos man

[@Tronicsfix]

Hey thanks!

[@HanxoHaxashi]

@@Tronicsfix I've never expected that you'll respond to my comment either but I'll take it. You're welcome as always, what a magic

[@UltimateTechHub]

I really enjoy these Laptop fixing videos.

[@crisneillubguban4779]

job well done. from beg to end make me focus watching i thought it cant be repair when you remove the chips then the last part was so satisfying. kudos!

[@so047]

Wow! What a PRO right there! Good job!

[@Rj-nh1df]

Acer Nitro 5s would sell for under $600 on sale on holiday prices. Probably best deal for what you are paying on GAMING LAPTOP. Unfortunately, I've heard issues regarding simple things like LCD screens going green or black. All in all, it forced HP to be more competitive. I'd buy one.

[@DiJAndy]

7:32 Nope! There is CNC milling technique. Some repair shops use this method to recover as much "fuzed copper layer" under the components as possible. This is very time consuming and not everyone can afford to spend such many time to repair broken motherboard but it is very efficient and allows to recover as many space benith broken mosfet as possible without making more damage during repair attempt

[@DiJAndy]

Holy $hit! That was very suprising! Nice job!

[@nbaua3454]

Initially I was wondering if your 170$ were going to be lost if this laptop repair didn't went as planned..but you're not going to give up that was my feeling too. So this video was having a real nice twist. BTW I am still curious from were those metal screw like stud popping up from, you never told.

[@arnoolve]

Not lying!!!, I bought one of these exact laptops on a thrift store for 5 bucks and it has the exact problem it wont turn on. Now I know what to check for next thanks Steve.

[@kanedaku]

The battery could have sold for more than that.

[@LiRaye]

Genius. This is what genius do instead of just replacing parts.

[@Rcat007]

Good idea with the coil of wire under the MOSFET. I would have also stock a thick small thermal pad on top of the MOSFET for extra cooling.

[@migueblankito]

Dude you are a beast!

[@fuadarif3680]

You have great videos. Keep making stuff like this and fixing laptops i love seeing those videos

[@mypeeps1965]

Nice job. You have come along way.

[@Moslhe775]

Great work my dear I, support you all the time

[@abdulqadrakram5953]

Really awesome job fixing laptop from this bad condition

[@nicktimur]

well i didnt think that is fixable like that area was totally burnt out but i'm happy to see it getting fixed well done again