Comment on Old laptop died 🥲

• RedBauble@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, it’s because, in the very specific fault I described, at least one of the caps on the supply line are actually shorted. I don’t know how rare it is, I’ve had it happen on a couple laptops, both Dell now that I think about it

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  • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh no, I mean the caps under CPU/GPU sorry

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    • RedBauble@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I actually never investigated. My guess would be yes

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