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**reformatt** · 06-11-2021, 12:02 AM

I had a very similar fault to this on the same motherboard. With a Windows 10 USB boot disk, you'd get to the spinning dots for a brief moment and it'd restart. It ran Ubuntu Linux though, but this was only using the Intel GPU, not the Nvidia GPU. It wasn't even detected.

When I took the board out, PL900 had burnt up. It's a choke, inline with +B supply that feeds the +1.35VS_VGA buck converter. Turned out one of the caps PC902/903 was shorted. It turned out to be the one on the underside of the board. So replaced that and PL900 with one off a donor board, and all working ok.

Obviously Windows 10 crashed because it couldn't initialise the Nvidia GPU. Ubuntu just didn't care.

06-11-2021, 12:02 AM	#30
reformatt Badcaps Veteran Join Date: Feb 2020 City & State: Noosaville My Country: Australia Line Voltage: 240V 50hz I'm a: Professional Tech Posts: 315	Re: Dell INSPIRION 15 7567 BSOD I had a very similar fault to this on the same motherboard. With a Windows 10 USB boot disk, you'd get to the spinning dots for a brief moment and it'd restart. It ran Ubuntu Linux though, but this was only using the Intel GPU, not the Nvidia GPU. It wasn't even detected. When I took the board out, PL900 had burnt up. It's a choke, inline with +B supply that feeds the +1.35VS_VGA buck converter. Turned out one of the caps PC902/903 was shorted. It turned out to be the one on the underside of the board. So replaced that and PL900 with one off a donor board, and all working ok. Obviously Windows 10 crashed because it couldn't initialise the Nvidia GPU. Ubuntu just didn't care.