Re: new user- my bad caps

yeah I tried it with and without the battery, bought a spare power supply. the light on the power supply is on until I plug it into the laptop, then it goes off.

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi,

Being an avid hoarder, over life i have slowly built up a collection of things that have stopped working. A small part of my brain kept telling me i can fix them. Well that time is now!

Thanks for having me and my junk.

Re: new user- my bad caps

The capacitor looks slightly raised up, slightly disfigured and has some brown staining on it (looks like it leaked?). I do not have a meter tester to check it with but would this be the best way for me to test it as well as other components on the motherboard and are there any that are easy to use for a newby you may recommend?.

The laptop shows no signs of firing up, no lights or fans. It had been prone to overheating but had been running fine since i bought a laptop fan tray.

Thanks for replies so far

Re: new user- my bad caps

forgot to mention the motheroard is from my dell inspiron 5100. had it for ages but it but it stopped working a few weeks ago.

Hi, i am new to electronics and i think i have identified a bad cap on my laptop motherboard (laptop is dead) . it has a bunch of numbers on it but after trawling the net i still cant work out what cap i need .

i have included 2 pics. one is of the suspect bad cap and the other is of the exact same type cap located elsewhere on the mobo.

it is the smd that has the following written on the top:

36
47
25G

also it measures about 6mm diameter, height about 4-5 mm (not sure if i measure from base of cap or black plastic mount)...