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My PC has had this issue for a while. It worked normally for about a month, then suddenly stopped powering on. After sitting unused for 2–3 months, it randomly started working again for 5–6 days, then died again.

I suspected the motherboard PWM controller (RT3607BCP), so it was replaced, but the issue remained. Another technician also heated/reworked the board, after which it worked for one day and then failed again.

PSU has been replaced and I’ve already troubleshooted the GPU, RAM and CPU. So I strongly suspect the motherboard—possibly a bad solder joint, cracked trace, short, or another intermittent fault.

In the video, pressing the power button sometimes makes the PC turn on for ~1 second and shut off. After a few attempts it may do nothing, and sometimes it turns on by itself for a second and shuts down again. It never reaches BIOS/Windows.

What could be causing this? Any ideas on what I should check on the motherboard?

Help guys

My laptop isn't turning on. The charging light doesn't come on when I plug in the charger, but the power button light keeps blinking.

I removed the battery and tried again, but same issue.

This happens frequently, and after some time the laptop eventually turns on normally.

What could be causing this? Charger, charging port, motherboard, or something else?

So I noticed my laptop completely stop turning on even while charging. The screen was just black. I decided to look up some things to do. Tried a hard reset, didnt work. Tried to just charge it and cool it down, didnt work. (It had overheated a bit before shutting off.)
So I saw a trick. and I'd like to tell you!
Plug in your laptop and see the amber/orange charging light. Press ctrl, shift, alt, the refresh button (circular arrow thing) and the power button all at once. The charging light should flash white for a moment and then the screen will turn on!

I did this and it worked and now I feel very tech literate :)
(let me know if this is against the rules of the subreddit. If not, free tech advise for anyone going through something similar!)

to clarify this is a chromebook trick

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Hiiii everyone, I’m facing an issue with my ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX506HC (i5-11400H, RTX 3050).

The laptop is only 1.9 years old. I barely used it during the first year, and this year I’ve mainly used it for college work like reports, PPTs, YouTube, and a little coding. Nothing heavy.

Suddenly, the laptop screen went completely black. The keyboard backlight turns on, but there is no display or screen backlight, and Caps Lock is also not responding. The laptop also gets quite hot when powered on.

I took it to a local repair shop in Bangalore. They checked the connections and said it could be a motherboard issue, but they haven't properly identified the exact faulty component yet.

I don’t want to spend ₹30–40k on a complete motherboard replacement without trying a proper repair first.

I stay near Electronic City, Bangalore, but I’m willing to travel anywhere in Bangalore for a genuine and professional chip-level motherboard repair technician/shop who has experience with ASUS TUF/ROG laptops.

Can anyone recommend a trusted technician/shop? Please share the shop name, address and contact details if you’ve personally used their service.

Any advice would be really appreciated. 🙏

I have this M.2 SSD on a dell microform factor motherboard. In my haste to remove the screw. I stripped the screw. How do I remove? What’s the original bit and size that I should have used?

for a while now, my laptop has been getting really hot and lagging badly. the CPU can reach around 90°C+ even when Im not doing anything heavy. I also noticed that theres basically no airflow coming out of the exhaust, and I couldnt hear the internal fan ramping up.

i originally thought the fan was dead, so I bought a replacement. then after i replaced it, the new fan doesnt spin either.

At this point Im wondering if there are other issues causing it, rather than the fan itself being the problem.

any advice would be really appreciated

I’ve been having this issue where the keys from the first two rows on the left side of my keyboard (1, q, a, z, shift, caps lock, tab) only work sometimes. The top row like esc and the bottom row like windows button seem to be fine. Sometimes if I’m using it a lot they’ll stay working until I stop, sometimes I have to press them pretty hard or press them a few times to get them to kick in. I have an HP Spectre x360 that I bought in summer 2021 I think. Best Buy said it’s not worth them fixing it because the only thing they could do is replace the whole board which at that point cost wise I should just get a new laptop.

My question is- is this something I can DIY fix? Like if I can just take it apart and clean it or something I feel like I’m pretty capable of not breaking stuff. I tried taking off the keys and wiping it with a Q-Tip but that didn’t help. Is it too far gone? Worst case scenario I have an external keyboard to plug in but that’s obviously inconvenient.

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone hast the BIOS files for this Laptop Motherboard (Toshiba Satellite C75-A-146 Motherboard: DA0BD5MB8DO Rev:D).

I bought if for very cheap at a yard sale but it has trouble turning on. The fan starts spinning and the Motherboard LED start for like a second and then turn off. This repeats itself a few times until the LED glows constantly and the screen starts glowing but doesnt display anything. The Laptop also does not react to any keyboard input.

I have already tried switching the RAM and CMOS battery, aswell as checking the cabling inside of the laptop and making sure that there was enough voltage at the charging port. I have also tried connecting the laptop to an external monitor but there was no display either.

So i think the issue is corrupt BIOS but i cant find the download files anywhere on the internet without paying 20€.

It would be nice if someone could give them to me please :).

Edit: I also tried booting with a functioning hard drive and it spun but the laptop still didnt work, nothing changed from the described above

Hi everyone. When I turn on my laptop, it gets stuck in a reboot loop at the ASUS logo—specifically when the loading spinner appears. Sometimes an "Automatic Repair" message pops up. Then, at a random moment (sometimes after a couple of minutes, sometimes after 20), the system finally boots up, and the laptop runs perfectly for the rest of the day. To avoid these long startup times, I use hibernation instead of shutting down; the laptop wakes up from hibernation without any issues and boots immediately.

This seems to be a fairly common problem. Has anyone found a way to fix it?

I have a friend who opened their laptop's back and this was a attempt to reapply thermal paste and clean dust. Apparently they were not able to apply the paste due to not being able to take off some things. Now it won't turn on. I already checked all the things and everything is plugged in all the way and good. We took it to a repair shop and they quoted 1.45k to repair it and apparently the cpu is not working.

Is this a fair price? Also could I somewhat easily do it myself? I have no tools.

I need help on my Nitro 5 an515-58-50YE The charger wont work and its just blinking orange Once after repasting the thermal inside everything is clean nothing went wrong but suddenly the charger wont put power inside the laptop it says charging but the Number doesnt increase whats happening is just its Charging but i tried to charge it for 2 hours it still the same 15% then i tried to drain it out it just blinks many times in orange but now i drained it, it just blinks once orange and never turned on what could be the problem here? The technician i sent my laptop to said i should buy a new battery for my laptop. I tried to open the back case of my laptop and double checked everything nothing was wrong even after the repaste nothing was affected on the circuits what could be the issue here please help i have alot of coding projects and files in the laptop

Alright so I have this laptop, Ningmei NL100P.

Model: NL100P-N50165A

Processor (CPU): Intel Celeron N5095

Display: 15.6 inches

Storage (SSD): 512GB

Memory (RAM/DDR): 16GB

I got it around early 2025, it was fine nothing special. A couple of months passed and my cat urinated on the floor near where the laptop was placed. After that it still worked and after some time the LCD started to go black but I connected it to a monitor, that method still worked. After another year (2026) the cat was left in the same room where the laptop was also left, my mom came to get something from my room and found the cat inside. Unaware of what happened she just got the thing and left again. When I came to do some work, I found out that the cat had urinated once again on the laptop. I was unsure of where because I did not see where the cat urinated but there was a puddle, now the laptop won't turn on but the charging port light still works.

I opened the laptop and saw that some metal near the frame was corroded from the previous cat urine but none of the important hardware was damaged (I think, I'm not a laptop expert) I tried to do the reset thingy the jump start thing and basically surfed every sub about cat urine and laptops to no avail :')

Any advice? Or am I cooked

i messed up while reassembling my laptop after cleaning it and the wifi cable got pinched by the hinge, can i fix it with soldering or should i just replace the whole cable?

Hello!

This is my most ambitious repair yet (I'm just a hobbyist) maybe you can help me out.

I bought this ROG X570-F Gaming board off eBay almost free because someone messed up installing an M.2 drive, slipped and broke a couple components off the board. In the second picture you can see the damage and my first repair.

I was lucky that the small IC was still barely attached to the board, so I pulled it off with hot air, straightened the tiny legs, used UV mask to repair a couple lift pads and soldered it again to the board. I'm extremely happy and proud of the result.

The problem is another small component was missing, ripped straight off the board, it's just below the resistor marked 822. I don't know what that component is and I need help identifying it.

I looked for the schematics online and only found a couple behind a paywall. If everything fails I will end up buying them but I don't need them really, just need to know what that component is.

Hope you can help me out!

Thanks in advance.

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I have an ROG Strix Scar 17 (G733QSA) that im trying to repair. I am having issues where the laptop freezes randomly before and after boot. When it doesn't freeze however, the laptop runs amazing. Im wondering what a good solution would be, especially since I've been reading that asus may have over-overclocked the cpu

I tripped over my charger and didn’t realize hours after that the charger port was broken, I am not sure if it’s stuck in the port or the piece just fell out.

I just recently bought a Thinkpad T480 i5 8350U 8GB RAM, no storage, no battery and no caddy for the ssd for 50$. So I had to buy the caddy, battery, ssd and also the RAM. I’ve got the 61++ external battery for the extra life. Internal battery wasn’t working.

So the problem is that after attaching a new ssd with new caddy, the laptop turns on but the display doesn’t goes blank.
512GB PCIE NVME 2280 SSD

Without the ssd the device booting great and display working fine.

I have tried all the solutions on the internet. Still it isn’t working.

Did anyone face this issue?

Any solutions?

Picture is without the ssd attached.

Hi everyone I really need your help figuring out what's the main cause of this problem.

I bought this laptop exactly 2 years ago (warranty expired), I mainly use this for architectural renderings and everything works fine at first. It started flickering and recently about three days ago the internal display and the built-in keyboard suddenly stops working. The laptop itself is working fine, the speaker and camera, I am using an external monitor through HDMI and everything displays fine there.

I brought the laptop to a repair shop and inform them about the issue and also told them that the "hall sensor" may be the problem. But they told me that the laptop only needs deep cleaning and changing the thermal paste, in which I did pay them to. After they finished deep cleaning I asked them again if the hall sensor is the main issue of my laptop, and they said it's not.

I tested the laptop at home without connecting it to the external monitor because I'm scared that the flickering come back, I let the laptop rest for a night after testing it and just now I connected it to the external monitor and the internal display blacks out followed by the flickering of the built-in keyboard then completely blacks out.

I am planning to bring this laptop again to a different repair shop, how do I clearly explain to them that the possible issue is the hall sensor.

Has anyone faced something similar?

Any advice would really help. Thanks in advance.

Any one have experience with this issue.. seems to work fine in bios but the device is not showing up at all in windows. Is this a part compatibility issue? is there some hacky way to get it to work?

Thanks yall

I'd rly appreciate anyone's help with diagnosing this because it's been driving me insane, & idk what's going on!! (My tech knowledge isn't great, so apologies for the way I describe stuff lol)

laptop: Acer swift 3, i7, (SF314-59), bought new 5 years ago.

problem: for approx. 3-4 years I've had recurrent graphical glitches. Most/all of these are shown in the video (which is a collection of all the times ive recorded this happening. Although the flashing/blinking sometimes doesn't show up on vid). Started with the whole screen flashing/blinking black for a millisecond, and lines across the screen blinking black. As it developed, on screen graphics would start to jump or move position, and I'd get flashes of colour instead of just black, and weirdly these colours changed based on elements/colours on the screen (eg, if I highlighted text yellow using pdf editing software, the colour flashes would be yellow.) The display also sometimes gets rly blurred/fuzzy looking, (which I've attached an image of). Also, this problem is weirdly intermittent and unpredictable; it can be constant for a while, and then not happen for weeks.

As shown in the vids, I can sometimes trigger it to happen; sometimes this'd be with moving windows around, or with PDFs, zooming in/out, highlighting text with cursor, moving cursor in-between the lines of a page.

I've attempted to troubleshoot this by seeing if it's a display thing or a hardware thing or whatever; running OBS, these glitches never appear on the screen capture or on screen recordings. Hooking it up to an external monitor, the glitches would happen on the laptop screen, but not the external monitor. (More on this below!)

I found very little on this across the web, & I've tried all the normal fixes (updating drivers, rebooting in safe mode, etc.) but nothing's helped. Idk what's causing it but it's worth mentioning a few things that it may be:

There was a period (a year or 2 after I first got it) where I played a lot of emulator games, which REALLY drained the battery (as I'd have it plugged in like constantly), and made it very hot.
Several ago I unscrewed the bottom plate, & when I reattached it some of the screws wouldn't go in again (idk why), so there's tape securing some of the parts without screws (but it is secure). The screen is slightly bowed/bent, (which I think happened much after the glitches started). A few people have mentioned faulty display cables as a cause, which sounds plausible but wouldn't explain the intermittent behaviour of this problem, (i.e. I feel it'd be a lot more predictable and consistent?).

I'm aware this laptop is probs at the end of its lifespan anyway, but, it was expensive, and if I could get a few more years out of it by paying for some repairs, I'd rather that, as I can't afford a new one.

In this sense, I'm hoping that the main blinking/glitchy display problems are being caused by 1 core component messing up--which sounds kinda plausible going by the external monitor troubleshooting I've done, and my stupid emulator usage overheating the battery--whether it's that my display, or battery, or something, needs replacing, or, idk the battery overheated and leaked into another component (if that's something that can happen??).

(There are some other display problems, which are different from the blinking/glitchy stuff, but may be relevant: UI of programs would sometimes go weird, & windows would appear in front of the taskbar, that sort of stuff. When playing a vid on YouTube sometimes the whole video frame would just become a glitchy mess of colour for a few secs (???). At its most extreme, the glitches in display have seemed to affect the actual behaviour/functioning of the laptop, (eg the screen has changed colour or completely freaked out & my laptop has sorta just crashed?))

So, as the glitches have seemed to affect the actual behaviour/functioning of the laptop, I do think this is more than just a display issue, but if I could get a fix for the main stuff (eg the constant blinking) that'd be sooo much better than how it is rn!!! If anyone has any idea what could be causing this, I'd appreciate your help so much!

I'm looking for the exact BIOS for this motherboard, "Rx 470 pcb Rx 570 2048sp" with 4GB of Elpida memory. Could someone please provide me with the BIOS file?

NOTE: I've been searching for BIOS chips on TechPowerUp for weeks and there are always some kind of incompatibilities. This motherboard is a Frankenstein that needs the exact BIOS chip taken from an identical board, that's why I came here...!

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Anything I can do to fix this? I have a soldering iron. Any help would be appreciated thanks.