Trying to FIX a GAMING LAPTOP - ACER Aspire 7 -A717-71G-58U3
Hi, in this 'trying to fix' video I attempt to repair a gaming laptop sent over from Finland by Jari. It stopped working whilst gaming, and never worked since. It is a ACER Aspire 7 - A717-71G-58U3. It doesn't charge or power on.
It is a lovely looking laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060 with 6GB GDDR5 VRAM, so hopefully if it can be fixed it will still be a very capable machine.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.
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Spoiler Saver + Riddle What always MURMURS but doesn't TALK, always RUNS but never WALKS, has a BED but never SLEEPS and has a MOUTH but never SPEAKS?????
@jawmedia7575
3 жыл бұрын
Chevy s10
@sundaybighouse
3 жыл бұрын
River?
@paulfox89
3 жыл бұрын
An active Volcano
@joshtaylor1986
3 жыл бұрын
Rumors. I thought that my logic would be to say the first thing out of my mouth via those family or friend games where you just blurt things out!
@MB-bs3ji
3 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna guess that it's a river.
"I don't know anything about laptops" ...proceeds to carry out competent component level repair to motherboard... Nice one Vince!
@charlie1234500
3 жыл бұрын
He is a genius with his adaptability
@VampirusX
2 жыл бұрын
I like humble people 👌
@Random_4400
Жыл бұрын
😂😂
Lewis would be proud of that fix, he always says look for anything that looks wrong
Your excitement is something I miss about fixing something. You're a great joy to watch work my friend. Keep it up.
Finding a shorted cap by visual inspection alone, well done Vince!
Great eye Vince on finding that cap. I think SMD capacitors are the biggest pain when it comes to board repair. No printed values and most times no visible signs of damage. I am always happy to support your videos!
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Todd 👍 Yes they are hard to find, but at least when it comes to the soldering they are easy to replace. Cheers for the continued 'Massive' support 👍👍👍👍
I love your genuine excitement every time you fix an item. Even though you are extremely competent at what you do, you are still excited at a fix. It is as if you are surprised your efforts worked. I am never surprised that you fix something that can be fixed.
the excitement is so damn relatable. love it
That was genuine excitement when the charging light turned on. :)
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Andre 👍👍
The apprentice has become the master! Great fix Vince! You have come a long way!
If half the repair shops knew as much about repairs as you do, the manufacturers would be in serious trouble...
@mohsentabouna6401
3 жыл бұрын
Hello sir, please can you try and make your videos in english ? you do top repairs but I don't understand german
@typicalpctech6674
3 жыл бұрын
@@mohsentabouna6401 Pity KZread can't translate by now...
@nathanmead140
3 жыл бұрын
@@typicalpctech6674 it can but not very good
@mohsentabouna6401
3 жыл бұрын
@@typicalpctech6674 I think electronics language is easy I just hope he would talk a bit of english, I know he is already doing a lot by making videos alone but his work is so good I wish he could speak a lil even bad english would be perfect
@SiETechNotebookReparatur
3 жыл бұрын
@@mohsentabouna6401 Hello, I will not produce English videos. I am in first line service, not KZreadr. But I'm working on English subtitles, It's going a bit slow as I have to translate all manually, with timing, but 1 video already translated: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGqZ1bmLm6uzmcY.html
Love how far you've come during these last few years, great fix :)
Vince is either extremely lucky or getting very good at these repairs. Been watching for a few years now and his skills are getting top notch he also has the patience of a saint. For me it would of went in the bin after half hour of looking 😂
@themarkovian152
3 жыл бұрын
Ditto !!
@marcosalvestomasini
3 жыл бұрын
@mister kluge I've been buying Alienware laptops and fixing them, usually motherboard problems, and its zero pacience to check whats wrong lol. I just go to Aliexpress and buy them from there
I jumped from my chair like if my team make a goal! what a great fix, thanks for so many fun vids like this one Vince!
You never let me down with the full blown excitement from fixes! Keep it up and keep them coming!
The second i saw that cap i knew that was it ... the discoloration was a clear giveaway. Fixed a ThinkPad L570 in the same manner a few months ago. Bravo.
Excellent work! Could hear you starting to get despondent, then when you spotted that cap (amazing work there Sherlock) it was all suspense until the magic moment. Love the excitement from you when it worled! And you are right, when you watch someone like Sorrin fix one, it seems so easy. Well done.
Amazing how this tiny little thing broke the whole system. And you found the actual fault at first time. Brilliant!
@28:20 that's the feeling I am here for .. feels so good :) well earned fix
micro part like that took it down, lost for words but not suprised. well done again. love vids. you keep saying not an expert but do better than fix shops i been too .
these are quickly becoming my favorite repairs
The quality of the casing appears to be a million times better than when I worked at an Acer repair centre
Nice laptop for the price and good fault finding. It's amazing how far you have come.
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks PDS, I still massively struggle, but all the comments from yourself, and the others, teach me and lots of other viewers. Great little fix it community we have here 👍👍👍👍
Fantastic, Well done Vicne. It is a pleasure to hear you squeal with excitement when you realized you found the problem...and quite quickly may i add You have definatly come a long way over the past several years that i have been following you. well done
Love it, you can practically fix almost anything. I know computer repair services that won't do what you do Vince, they just send them off to the manufacturer. Well done..
Nice work! If you've not done so yet, add a second identical memory stick for a noticeable performance boost (you only showed one but that might have been only during testing).
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. It still only has the one at the moment. I need to buy another 👍👍
I loved so much the part of the video when the laptop turns on and he claps of joy :D
You should definitely accept more stuff from viewers. It's quite nice to see something expensive that's not a scam from ebay like the MSI laptop😃
I believe that lump of solder allows you by removing it to isolate the previous power stage for troubleshooting. Thanks for the video.
The wifi card right next to power and fans is a staple of great engineering. Ace
Awesome fix Vince! Always satisfying to get a good result, especially on complex hardware like this. Most of the laptops I get in for repair have blown ICs or water damage - nice to see a relatively easy one for a change :)
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Count, I was very lucky with this one 👍
I love this repair videos, specially this laptop ones. Im amazed how far you have come
Not that it affects you too much with this fix but be careful with the voltage ratings of ceramic capacitors (the brown boxes you were measuring and replacing). The capacitance drops hugely with applied voltage on certain types. When repairing old computers and consoles, I will selectively replace some electrolytic caps with ceramic and have to be very careful about voltage ratings especially on outputs of audio circuits. The most egregious design I saw was in the Sega Game Gear with electrolytic used in series with the LCD having tens of volts DC bias and almost as high signal swing. Additional fun fact: those two MOS-FETs you were probing in the board were the twin external switching FETs of a synchronous buck (reducing) voltage regulator. Typically, these are used where very high currents are being delivered and reasonably high efficiencies are required. There's no risk with a short on the output of those as the regulating chip will detect the output short and put the part in a failsafe mode to stop excessive current causing damage (which will be why the shorting capacitor didn't burn out).
Great fix! I will definitely keep this information in mind should my laptop randomly stop working!
Hi Vince, just suscribed. I am Paul from the North, Littleborough near Rochdale. Well done for all you do, you have got me started again.
Wow great eyes noticing that capacitor, very nice job mate 👍
Very good repair !! I recommend a power meter that you can connect to your electrical outlet for measure the current that a device draws. A boot able USB stick with LINUX to start a PC / Laptop would certainly also be useful and in such a case I would always change both capacitors if they are so close together
Man Ide be so happy to fix something so nice this easily. This is better computer than I’m working with right now and you paid next to nothing in comparison with its actual value.
Acer is specializing in easy to die electronics, nice job as always :)
Dude, when you plugged in that power cord, I leaned right in to see if the light was on. Your jump and clap scared the sh*t out of me!
Fantastic fix Vince, nice to see you hone in on that cap and find the fault. Personally I'd have been lazy and just injected voltage lol
@StromboliKicks
3 жыл бұрын
is voltage injection to see if there's any short?
@jamescollins6085
3 жыл бұрын
@@StromboliKicks Yes. It should result in the component getting very hot, which aids in identifying it.
@TheCod3r
3 жыл бұрын
@@StromboliKicks yeah as James says, if you inject voltage the shorted component would draw an excessive amount of current and get very hot, then you could either scan around with your finger or use a thermal camera to find the hot components :)
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers Coder, can't beat a fix like that. I loved it 👍👍
Goes from the Switch killer to the laptop saving god, great vlog Vince.............
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha, I have some Apple MacBook's on the channel soon, so I think Mac Killer will be new name!
My ''so what I am going to the is...'' man! I really enjoyed this video.
Absolutely brilliant Vince. Excellent repair, sir.
Hope you're proud of yourself. Well done Vince
It makes me smile and happy to see your attempting to fix things. Your very good at it. I've been a fan of yours for a few years. I wouldn't know much about continuity if it wasn't for you for teaching me.
Another great video Vince, impressed by how you found the fault
Well done 👏 I have just stumbled upon your channel, its very interesting. I've fixed my walkman and discman because of your videos. My ipod generation 3 is next. Got a new battery to stick in and hopefully it will hold a charge. Thanks for all the videos.
That one was fantastic. Fixing up laptops always gives you that rush!
The pure excitement when that light turned on in your voice is reason enough to try and fix things! Beats any "unboxing" experience. I've never seen a repair video before but have been tinkering with computers for 25 years now. I had no idea those mats existed. The amount of damn screws that I've lost or rolled away, or the amount of times I've stolen tuppaware or plates from the kitchen to store them in! I had no idea how the multi meter helped. I suspect if you give it a detailed visual inspection for burns this type of fix will be gold. I think my hands are too shaky and too many neck issues to attempt something like this myself - but it might make me braver next time something I really like stops working.
good fresking job dude, so nice too see your excitement
Excellent repair. A visual inspection goes a long way with those caps.
as soon as i saw the video is 40min i knew it will be an easy fix ... from iraq big fan keep it going 🖤🖤
Good to see a win... watched loads of yours with fails!... get both ran and higher capacity mvme and good very cheap laptop
I love the fact that you had the stones to try another one of these. Good man!
Amazing job, Vince! can't believe you found that capacitor on the first try!
Vince, you are a genius. Well done!
Well done Vince.
Well traced. its so rewarding when a fix like this occurs.
brilliant fix for cheap vince nice job i genuinely love the yeah its working lol :)
Notebook video is Also Very Nice to watch... TKS Vince to bring for us this kind of videos....
I can't believe it was just that tiny capacitor killing the entire system. I was sure you were on the wrong track because that whole thing looked like a ground plane, but I was very impressed you got it fixed. Congrats on the new laptop :)
that's a brilliant repair! congrats Vince. 😎
Vince, you are a beast. Your troubleshooting skills have come a long way.
Love it! That's the exact laptop I have. Now I know the first thing to check if it happens to die suddenly.
Wonderful job there Vince in getting this laptop fixed and working again. Well done. I can't wait for more.
Nice price damn. That sound of the most happy person in world now that was very great to watch.
As always great to see an awesome Try to fix by Vince, Laptops are nothing short than a nightmare for me over the years ... maybe one day il have the patience to attempt a fix like this ha !!! Brilliant vid.
I'm so amazed! You are inspiring me. I have a couple non-working laptops that I'm going to poke around on. If you didn't live so far away I'd send them to you to make a video about. I'm afraid the shipping would be $$$$$$.
You sir... r the best. God bless you and your family!!!
That was really brilliant and interesting to watch. Seriously that was good viewing! Very well done Vince! :)
"as always the wrong amount of thermal paste" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nice fix! :)
@qster
3 жыл бұрын
tronicsfix will be furious!
really great fix Vince
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Kevin 👍
I'm from Finland too and awesome video as always!👍👍
@UhXl_
3 жыл бұрын
Me too 👍
Great fix, nice troubleshooting on this one! In the past year or 2 you've come a long long way Vince. :)
Well done Vince, your getting better and better with these fixes.
Well done Vince! that was spot on!
Another great video. Your channel has gotten huge.
What a good find this was, thanks for this video, I really enjoyed it.
im allways pleased when i fix something
@petemiddleton64
3 жыл бұрын
wish people send me things to fix got nothin fix at min
i said to myself ! shorted caps i watch a lot of rossman i thought it might be the larger black capacitors but amazingly you did it again .well done vince
Quality fix Vince, great job 😁😁👌
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers Joey 👍👍👍👍
Very satisfying video bro, keep up the great work!
When done Vince. Love the Celebration! Decent little laptop for a tonne
Great discovery and repair Vince. You are the Gold Standard. 😁
@Mymatevince
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha...maybe the bronze standard!!!! Cheers buddy 👍👍👍
I love the enthusiasm in your voice 🙂 awesome man. Feel sorry for the previous owner, can imagine he got in the bath with a porsche toaster after watching this 😂👍🏼
The GPU in my Acer laptop only runs at full speed when the power cable is in so you might get even better performance when yours is plugged in.
@soul4707
3 жыл бұрын
there is an option called performance on battery settings. It allow to run you pc at full speed!
@lemurmad
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but its for a good reason. Ive reduced my battery's health to 94.8% in 4 - 5 months playing games while using the battery. It's best just to keep it plugged in while on games.
@DMadHacks
3 жыл бұрын
@@lemurmad Also make sure to not keep the power cable plugged in at all times because keeping the battery at 100% will kill it over a long period of time. That's what happened to my laptop's battery after 3 years, it couldn't even last for like 5 minutes on battery.
@lemurmad
3 жыл бұрын
@@DMadHacks I always leave it plugged in, and it seems to have no effect on the health. As I used to do the same with my old thinkpad that is 8 years old, and HWInfo reports it having 82% health. So maybe it varies on some laptops. Also it could be damaged from heat while charging, so maybe the laptop overheated?
@DMadHacks
3 жыл бұрын
@@lemurmad oh wow, interesting it's probably heat then since my laptop does get very hot, it even managed to warp some metal which caused the plastic above it to crack off lmao
I also had a gaming laptop (Asus ROG G751JY) die on me once when I was trying to install an M.2 SSD to it. Thank good it was under warranty. That thing weighed over 4.5 Kg and it's power brick was literally the size of an actual brick. Congrats on your repair. Shorted caps on laptops aren't that uncommon, especially those small tantalums (IIRC, that's what they're known as). Problem is that they're often pretty hard to find, you got very lucky this time.
I really enjoy your laptop fixes
When i saw that cap under the microscope, i was like ummmm theres the problem. It looked different from the other looked cracked. Nice video 👍👍
I am amazed that you would be able to pick that one out of all the other ones there. If I was to look through it there would have been no way I would have noticed it and probably just chalked it up to being dirty.
16:15 i was screaming that since the first beep, of course you would notice it too. Great repair mate!
Thank you Sir! Every time I trouble shoot a high end laptop I always check the mxm graphic card just to make sure it didn't pop out of place.
Great job in this one Vince!
What a job, well done
Wow amazing fix, your analysing skills are really great. Imagine if you go to the shop the will charge your a few hunderd pond for one failing component of low value. The world really needs more skill peolple like you. 👍🏻 keep up the great work and videos
Well Done Vince, enjoyed that. Mick 👍🍻
great work vince good diag and good fix you are for sure getting better at it
Li-ion batteries if drained to zero, will start charging very slowly. Its on purpose because a 0v state is considered a fault and could be a sign of a shorted battery and that's dangerous. Not saying it is just why is charging at .2v. Good work finding the issue and fixing it.
Good vid you saved another one from the garbage