Hi all!
I am self-taught in motherboard repair and I find myself somewhat lost.
Motherboard name: NM-B701
The info that i have:
The board arrived with a short on the 3VALW line (0.2ohms). I take out the coil and the short is on both sides. I remove the 3VALW AND 5VALW controller (RT6585) and now I only have short on the load side. I inject voltage (2v) into the 3VALW line and with the thermal camera the PCH heats up in one corner. I take it out and now 3VALW is at 270ohms. I inject 3v again and now the EC heats up. I remove it and short is gone (line go the k range in ohms), reprogram BIOS, EC and change the PCH.
And this is how I am now:
The motherboard connected to the lab PSU, take 0.01/0.02A and go something like 0.28/0.30A to end at 0.4A and drop at 0.01/0.02A... Sometimes this in a loop, sometimes this is only one time and you need to press the power button again.
So maybe you have a problem in vs voltages... i think..
And this is where it gets complicated for me...
With the oscilloscope:
Channel 1 - YELLOW - 3VS
Channel 2 - BLUE - 5VS

And i can find any shortcircuit or low resistance on the motherboar...
I don't have VCCCPUCORE. The VCCCPUCORE rail resistance is 2.1Ohms
NVVDD is present and the rail resistance is 0.6ohms...
Any advice on where to go next? I'm kind of lost.
I already removed the audio IC and the network IC, just in case they were causing problems... but no difference
Thanks for you time.
Link to schematic - https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=90257
Reminder: rules and organization of this section - https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=117483
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I am self-taught in motherboard repair and I find myself somewhat lost.
Motherboard name: NM-B701
The info that i have:
The board arrived with a short on the 3VALW line (0.2ohms). I take out the coil and the short is on both sides. I remove the 3VALW AND 5VALW controller (RT6585) and now I only have short on the load side. I inject voltage (2v) into the 3VALW line and with the thermal camera the PCH heats up in one corner. I take it out and now 3VALW is at 270ohms. I inject 3v again and now the EC heats up. I remove it and short is gone (line go the k range in ohms), reprogram BIOS, EC and change the PCH.
And this is how I am now:
The motherboard connected to the lab PSU, take 0.01/0.02A and go something like 0.28/0.30A to end at 0.4A and drop at 0.01/0.02A... Sometimes this in a loop, sometimes this is only one time and you need to press the power button again.
So maybe you have a problem in vs voltages... i think..
And this is where it gets complicated for me...
With the oscilloscope:
Channel 1 - YELLOW - 3VS
Channel 2 - BLUE - 5VS

And i can find any shortcircuit or low resistance on the motherboar...
I don't have VCCCPUCORE. The VCCCPUCORE rail resistance is 2.1Ohms
NVVDD is present and the rail resistance is 0.6ohms...
Any advice on where to go next? I'm kind of lost.
I already removed the audio IC and the network IC, just in case they were causing problems... but no difference
Thanks for you time.
Link to schematic - https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=90257
Reminder: rules and organization of this section - https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=117483
.
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