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[joeker78]

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hello everyone.

[thralmir]

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My name is George! I am a 30 year old husband and father. I have always loved electronics! I fix everything. I get a bit excited if something I own, that is repairable, breaks I get pretty excited at the new challenge. From vehicles to construction; electronics to fabricating, I am either building or fixing things.

Its not just electronics I work on. I have worked in community development and psycho-social rehabilitation for almost 10 years now! I spent a year in Nairobi, Kenya, building technical colleges in the slums using car batteries, Raspberry Pis, and Code Academy(When that was a big deal). I trained teachers to walk students, who live in dirt shanty's without electricity, through computer literacy and programming courses. I then worked with international companies to hire on part-time, low-skilled, programmers. To people living off of a dollar a day, $7.25/hour was transformative. I miss those days!

Anyhow, I stumbled across this forum because my 2 year old son dropped my Asus ROG G15 G512LW laptop and broke the screen. After replacing the screen with a new one(A fix I was familiar with) I discovered the fall caused something serious because, while there was an image on the screen if I shined a flashlight on it, there was no back-light. Research told me it was bad SMD Component of some sort.

I was incredibly surprised by my ignorance, given my background. What the heck was an "SMD Component"? Well, that rabbit hole led me to hours of daily study for 2 weeks. 70 hours of videos, tutorials, and online courses gave me a basic understanding of modern circuits but... I needed schematics for my laptop and real people trying to troubleshoot this problem. My search led me to this forum and diligently searched for my issue but... Nobody really had one for my laptop. So I created an account and started downloading every Asus ROG picture, board-view, and schematic I could find here. I compared them looking for patterns in Asus manufacturing process and I found them!

Here's the catch... I have never soldered circuit boards, tested motherboards, read schematics, and done anything else related to fixing this issue. I had to chew through it every step of the way. I also needed tools to work on components that were as small as a grain of rice. All I had was a multi-meter and the leads were far too large to accurately test pins. So I researched on this forum tools and ordered what I needed. Soldering iron kit, decent quality hot air station, ESD and heat protection, tweezers, every basic SMD component, magnifying glass, electric magnifier, etc...

After so much research and waiting for parts I finally fixed my laptop!

In the past 2 weeks I have learned so much here so I am going to share what I learned fixing this model of board and hopefully I can help someone too!

[azad007]

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Thanks to everyone ..

[misiu11]

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Hello everyone

[snoptel]

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Hi everyone.
Glad to be a part of this forum. Hope to offer some of my help and insight and also receive some of that karma as well.
Stay safe.
Cheers.

[Igor58]

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Hello all! I'm from Montreal, Canada. I fix stuff as a hobby. I'm happy to have found this forum as it looks pretty active. Thanks for letting me in.

[reid]

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Hello, I have had this account for quite a few years and have gained tons of knowledge through reading threads on this forum. Thank you to everyone for being so helpful and willing to share information.

[ajayannext]

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hi ,....brother's... i am also new comer here.

[Dave M]

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Hi all. My name is Dave. I'm just a novice but have been fairly successful with simple electronics repair. Looking to gain more knowledge and do my own repairs.

[radit204]

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Hi there fellas, greetings from Indonesia

[MaddogAtHome]

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Hi everybody, thanks for welcoming me to your very handy site..!!

Cheers from Amsterdam..

Maddog

[justaskin]

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Hello fellow lifelong learners.....
having read a number of posts, I can see I'm way outclassed ..... but then, that's why I'm here
thanks to everyone who tries to help out and donates generously of their time and expertise
happy holidays!

[djmka]

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Hello everyone. I'm looking forward to getting access to a wealth of knowledge from all of you.

[tunathefish]

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Hello from Wisconsin.

I found the forum looking for info on how to fix a blown 5V Camera Line on a Macbook Pro

I have a day job but enjoy fixing computer as a hobby, nothing more satisfying than being to save something that would have been thrown away and give it a second life.

[Gabor Rakoczi]

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Hello

[Stevie_belfast]

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Hi guys, long time registered.

Only now starting to get into board repair, so any help along the way is most appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

[Luciano Gerlo]

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Hi! mi name is Luciano, from Argentina. i'm a electronic technishian with 28 years on computers repair.
Hace 10 años mas dedicado a la microelectronica, reparando notebooks (laptops)
Me uno a badcaps porque es el grupo mas correcto que he visto hasta ahora. voy a contribuir en todo lo que esté a mi alcance en la resolución de fallas y aportando lo que tenga en mi banco de datos esquemas y bios. Gracias!

[diyfail]

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Hi, I'm just a guy trying to repair a laptop for a friend. I'm not familiar with this forum but just from browsing around this looks great! Thank you for building this place and keeping it running and happy holidays everyone!

[Sittisac Peou]

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Hello Guys,
I have an Asus laptop ROG GL753ve and it is dead only the power indicator light is on. And the fan is running, and the keyboard lit in on. But the screen is black and nothing else shows on it. I did the hard reset as suggested by Asus support group, but no luck.
I checked all voltages on the mother board and it's missing 1.3v. So, I need help.
Can somebody provide me the schematic diagram and the component layout, so I can troubleshoot it. Or if anybody has good idea of fixing it, please help. Thanks so much

[Sharmway]

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Hello, im lookin go for Fluke 289 infos, mainly for the continuity test.