How a simple power button backlight repair can be impossible to be fixed (in a normal way)

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[@davidharvey4059]

For a man who said the problem can't be fixed you did a damn good job of fixing it.

[@MilekaRobot]

Nobody cannot perform dodgy repair without great knowledge of electronics, so when you do something like that we learn more than usual :) Great video!

[@dobaayaz]

That satisfaction on his face after fixing the problem is priceless

[@remypaternoster6627]

You were born to teach and to repair stuff. Great work...

[@zoko1982]

Imagine all your followers together with you in one room, resolving various given electronics problems related to laptops and other items, commenting, laughing.... I will enjoy every second of those precious moments... It will be powerful energy gravitating in that room. Just imagine.... :) Cheers, Sorin.

[@ACOnetwork]

Sorin repair class 🙂

[@carlosgarciaoropeza5480]

@ Zoran: When I finished reading your comment, a cold sweat ran down my back because at first I thought it would be a tower of babel (language or tongue confusion) but I must admit that it sounds fabulous even though I'm sure it shouldn't be admitted (lol).

[@stevenyuliagenadt9895]

Sorin just like to say this, I love your KZbin watch it all the time, I was born in Romania in Brasov long time ago and you are a typical Romanian funny character, unfortunately my father, mother and grandparents that brought me to Australia as a kid, have all passed on but you remind me so much of them and the Romanian sense of humor and great Romanian character and I love it. Keep the great and good work up and greetings from Sydney Australia.👍👍👍

[@electronicsrepairschool]

Thank you very much!

[@Mike-je9sg]

That's so strange. I don't think anyone considered that. Well, this channel isn't called "electronic repair shool" for nothing, hehe. Sorin would be the perfect trade school teacher. That's how easy it is to solve a problem that used to make your head spin. I'm celebrating. Yes, I too voiced my theory about power management and I'm all the more amazed at the end result. Thanks Sorin for the clarification. You just never stop learning...😉

[@prgoncalves]

Hi Sorin, the problem could be a burned pull-up resistor, you should be able to fix that inserting a pull-up resistor at the gate of that mosfet

[@hariomengineering845]

i'm not from a technical field but i am trying to learn something from you coz you have a great knowledge. Thanks

[@Oak690]

I repaired a HP laptop once that had a LED problem - the problem was the white LED on the DC jack would illuminate when the charger was unplugged. I found an open trace on the motherboard, specifically a via was open which caused the LED to stay on if the charger was unplugged. I had to run a small wire to repair the trace. It took a very long time to figure out. Thanks for sharing as always Sorin. I really enjoy ALL of your videos!

[@Radek__]

3:02 "gate in(on) the air" much more often I've hear that not connected (or unconnected) pin(pad), is called: "floating", or "lifted up" or "open"

[@heno_3098]

The pull-up resistor from 3.3V is missing or broken on the motherboard, but according to the correct design of the circuit, this resistor should be on the button board so that the same failure does not occur after partial disconnection of the flex cable.

[@JP1989-l9h]

I have been subbed for, god knows, how many months and watched all the videos and these past few months, you weren't showing up on my youtube and somehow, i needed to sub again, youtube's funny business, sometimes.

[@hameddesign70]

I will send my future failure laptop to you not to repair it but for demonstration , gosh i love your videos ...

[@computersrepaircotesaint-l7407]

What a brain you have wow. He is genius.

[@wartlme]

I love the doggy, tricky fixes. I learn so much from this type of video. Thank you.

[@kpjVideo]

I've seen many laptops with burned input circuits where the gate was floating and could be turned on simply by touching the gate since your body is capacitively coupled

[@collinsmesue2143]

I’m here for the dodgy repairs. Thanks for another one. 🙏🏽

[@stuartmcconnachie]

“Gate in the air”, or more usually in English “Floating gate”. 🙂

[@Drottninggatan2017]

Floating means liquid damage.

[@Danny4Driver]

@@Drottninggatan2017 no, it is not. It is described very well in electronics. When you are referring as "floating pin", this is the meaning.

[@lucymc0191]

great video sorin ...smart not dodgy resolution and the customer is happy ...

[@mm0077]

Sorin is the best of all the best. Thank you for sharing.

[@giorgostexnikos6976]

gate on the air.first time hearing that thanks sorin.amazing video.

[@randyr.parker2698]

Same

[@Radek__]

much more often - not connected pin(pad), or unconnected is called: "floating", or "lifted up" or "open" and I also didn't hear "on the air" or "in the air" before.

[@nathvanvolsom5213]

Good job! Knowledge and logical reasoning make a good result!

[@tomasmolina8617]

Great Saturday videos Sorin, have a good weekend.

[@blackdotkiller1]

Put the laptop in a box, then like Schrodinger's cat, is the light still on or not 🤣🤣🤣

[@renbek100]

Merci pour vos vidéo toujours passionnantes 🙂 ( un bonjour de Belgique )

[@Abdallah.795]

Thank u for sharing your knowledge plz make videos how to use and read schematics with board view like following the first two mosfets by the schematics and boardview

[@thomasheden6112]

Thanks You're a great tutor

[@essamsiyam]

Very smart as usual

[@hariomengineering845]

Great work

[@avva4184]

Hello and thank you for sharing your knowledge, there's no denying it's a job👍👍👍🙏

[@locnim8841]

i has learned alot form ur videos thank u

[@christopherj3367]

is it a finger print scanner too? or just a push button for on and off?

[@humamalrawi1276]

New lessons , thank u a lot

[@YoutubeSupportServices]

Made it to 9:26 thus far, my first guess on the other video is still "holding water" 🤗... Personally, I'd take that small "switch"-board out, drench it in flux, and REEEEEEflow the entire board. Then when it works, tell everyone; "When the timing-chain jumped a tooth it sent metal-shavings downstream to the muffler-bearing and shorted out the blinker-pump!

[@jholkipan8801]

thank you very Doctor Sorin for Tutoring so much about how fix those masine, iam just requesring if you would upload a video for voltage injection,the track or and a right component with right Amps and right Volts in the right place. thanks very much iam one of the interested leaners.

[@rfr653]

Good job mate 👍

[@helmut8998]

Sorin you could just try swapping/flip one end of the ribbon cable. Fixed same problem for me. Someone connected the ribbon cable wrong. 😂

[@Pirelli.]

It's a dodgy way but I like it. The important thing is that it works. Great as always Sorin!😊👍

[@ericirambona7683]

Goodmorning sorin

[@maklogetrich2378]

that IC below power on/charging light/disk light is alcor smart card reader IC

[@shahjul4596]

Superb 😀

[@chumatez]

Nice one 🎉🎉

[@JEYDEEandYHANIETV]

you did a damm good job, i thought there's no hope for that AMAZING

[@ALEJANDRODIAZ-gp7hv]

Hi from Chile, I think that in bios or sio have a signal to this led, check the io program to know, or reprogram bios or sio.

[@Nebbia_affaraccimiei]

take a shot every time he says "gate in the air"

[@DanielsGameVault]

You might want to read the comments from the original video again - I mentioned it's caused by a floating gate ("gate up in the air" like you call it) :D

[@electronicsrepairschool]

Sorry, i missed your comment there. True! GG

[@repairtech9320]

@@electronicsrepairschool Hello Sorin. If you feel like it... Could you explain what's happening before and after the repair with a little schematic? Thank you

[@saltcityrepairs5121]

Master Sorin 😮🎉👍

[@almazalmaz8045]

You are a legend....❤😊

[@lucataszarek8782]

Masterpieces👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👋👋👋👋👋

[@jozsiolah1435]

Some non-English mp3 songs or their instrumental cause backlight problem, and Asus battery memory effect. To repair, first you have to delete the songs, then pull out the vga cable from the motherboard , then plug it back.

[@Ghost572]

The Sorin way is the only way, *reaches for the hot glue*.

[@jaym5938]

This is what happens when you don't replace capacitors, Sorin ;) lol

[@ammunir6]

thanks

[@zbaktube]

Could it be a scratch on the board by the heatsink? Or can the ribbon cable from the front led's chip to the motherboard is broken?

[@finhas8865]

Read comment on the first video. Apparently, that's a hall sensor board.

[@yeahright9014]

From stackechange: "By the way, since a PMOS has very high input impedance, it can turn on accidentally. If you ground the PMOS' gate, it'll short the body diode when the input is applied properly. This is the proper way of implementing a reverse polarity protection with a PMOS."

[@JustMe-in5jn]

I've seen desktops in the background. You don't do the repairs on them?

[@westsenkovec]

Maybe we should try to flash the BIOS first.

[@carlosgarciaoropeza5480]

@W. Senkovec: Please, West, the Master is beginning a "detox." from the programmer and you mention it to him again. If he "relapses", you and I will be "guilty" (lol). All the best.

[@Martin-ot7xj]

at 11:15 what type of wire are you using sorin ? normal wire ? or a special wire in electronic ?thnx

[@wisher21uk]

Unbelievable Sorin that’s well weird 😊

[@sipansibabdreddknot5179]

Can you replace the pmos that having that problem floating gate? Or some resistor value is not good anymore?

[@randyr.parker2698]

I think a schematic would be in order here for what you're saying. It would take a LOT of time trying to locate one particular resistor that may be causing this problem. Who's to say Sorin didn't just bypass the same trace supplying both LED's when he attached his wire. The same trace could have split somewhere on the board in two different directions to supply each LED and he bypassed the bad trace. Hard to know without a schematic.

[@WW-bt3tx]

Dodgy? This is a better-than-factory repair !

[@antanaskuizinas1550]

Perfect :D

[@imalshanaka3991]

Sorin can you explane laptop ics main signals and voltages ? Eg - Ac ok Ac Det

[@christopherjackson2157]

Sometimes the sorin way, the dodgy way, is a lot less dodgy than the factory way ;)

[@icommandoi145]

Interesting so it wasn't a fault with the laptop LID not being detected that it's closed or open. My Dell lights up when the lid is open and turns lights off when the lid is closed, which is why I was thinking from that side of logic. On the connector pin 1 has 3.3V and pin 2 had 0V, so why not solder or bridge pin 1 and pin 2 on the connector?

[@Martin-ot7xj]

Hi there, at 06:56 you spoke about driver ? what is driver meaning in this case? thnx

[@shastrichandoo817]

Excellent video....I couldn't believe what was the issue when I looked at the previous video. Nevertheless, I truly admired the way you fixed the "problem "...great job

[@laerticomputers]

Goodmorning

[@ljubopobric5385]

Hahaha.. I know you fu..ing with us, in the last video I was asking myself why you do not messure the voltage.. but why why.. take the probes pleaseeee... and you did not.. hahahaha I know that you want to make some fun.. you are not stupid ☺☺

[@electronicsrepairschool]

:D

[@ljubopobric5385]

@@electronicsrepairschool hey, when coffie and electronics????

[@zbaktube]

And why did you connect the front led light power to the mofset;s gate instead of the front led's mofset's gate to the keyboard's led's mofset gate?

[@tinaboo1544]

Good morning sir, I have a dell latitude 5490 turning on but not displaying

[@skjatayumobileandlaptop1013]

Sorin sir it's high low high because when you press power button it need to be 0,and when ypu release it need to be 3.3

[@ElectronPCFix]

Sir ,how about the light for the keyboard?

[@domenico2373]

Ciao capo only my opinion why not gate in the air? why turn on off by temperature change. oxid can bring "voltage in the midde" clean the robbon connector propely amd resold.

[@repairstudio4940]

Nuts!

[@ttandemus]

dodgy fix ??? Sorin is part of the generation that used to repair their car in front of their house with a wire and pliers... he knows what I'm talking about... we have a lot to learn from him

[@laurentcote3647]

Change the mosfet and it's gonna work.

[@FixTronics]

A 10K pullup resistor to 3.3v would solve it

[@oscarilmio7148]

Just for fun,did you try a 10k pullup resistor ? 🤭

[@fraizfester8713]

The LED indicates, that Sorin is detected and turns off :)))

[@Popeyes66]

Finally,i can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

[@vkp111]

Sorin, you mean floating gate pin.

[@JonnyMac351]

Yes that's what he meant.

[@panaitepaul6798]

Why not from keyboard light?

[@B9NE]

I fixed a flashlight by connecting the LEDs to ground. Strange quick and simple 😂

[@Dragunov1111]

Lid sensor?

[@IT_Tech_MPK]

I think it's was just software problem because Window OS didn't complete it's shutdown sequence. I solved it with SFC /SCANNOW command running administrative rights.

[@miroslavstevic2036]

4:00 I am really Sorry-n, we'll do it in a dodgy way. Haha. Keep it dodgy man, we enjoy it

[@mohammadrezamim272]

Other side of the mainboard must have a water damage.

[@B9NE]

You whats funny? I had a PS4 where the power button didn't work. I went to heat it up and it worked. I know I shouldn't have had it plugged in but when it cooled it stopped working. I figured heating a capacitor sometimes does this and I was right lol.

[@chumatez]

Sorin way is great and sometimes Dodgy

[@bmsfx]

"it can only be zero and one, nothing in the middle".. Unless its a quantum computer that is ;)

[@sunstart]

Remove led so laptop won't die. Or replace small circuit board. That's the only way you will know definitely what's wrong.

[@ch2o2]

You haven't "solved the riddle", you've just overruled the actual function of the LED and for our Sunday morning breakfast you gave us again big evidence of never-ending dodgyness. What surprises me is that you didn't consider drilling a separate hole in the laptop case to add an extra switch to turn the LED on and off ,D (no offense, Sorin, I'm just kidding - you're doing a great job - I love your informative and funny videos )

[@weerobot]

I would remove the Led..live without it..

[@flodurkeng]

někdo vymění čip ale machrovi stačí kus drátu 😉 someone replaces the chip, but a piece of wire is enough for a scumbag

[@MrRvdbeek]

The light 💡 is off with a extra wire? Okay eh 🙄

[@Djarum_]

Oh its a Driver alrright... its a driver you crazy.

[@radminas2739]

I would't like my computer to be fixed this way. It is a dodgy way, the real reason wasn't found. And it is not true that anybody gave you good suggestion under the previous video. There were several comments, where people wrote like "100% it is a hardware fault", that the fault can be related missing/damaged pull up/down resistor or poorly filtered (faulty capacitor) power supply.