Shorted caps on the main board - possibly liquid damage
What's up, iFixers :)
Found an old Asus Transformer Book T100TA laying around at home today - it belonged to my relative back in a day.
Tried to turn it on and it won't - only the amber LED next to the power button would blink.
Wen plugged into charge the device would take 1,76 A out of 2 amps that USB port could give
After a while battery gets insanely hot, so I disconnected the charger. Device still won't power on anyway.
At this point I decided to have a look inside - someone definitely been here before me - half of the screws are missing and I found that all of the caps I marked with red are all shorted to ground:
At the same time the caps I marked with blue are not shorted.
It could be a result of a liquid damage, because I found way too many traces of that on the keyboard, but could not really find anything obvious on the main board.
Just wondering what might be the cause of the short and if it's reasonable to fix the device just out of curiosity
Update (09/14/23)
So for the sake of convenience here are the images of the board on both sides:
And once again - I found that caps in the red area are shorted to ground and the ones in the blue are not:
And today I also found that these caps I marked with red circles are shorted, so I believe the problem could possibly be one of them.
Since I'am an absolute noob I have zero clue for the following:
- If I'am on the right track and one of those caps is the issue - which one should I remove first to see if the short is gone
- What might be the value of those caps and where do I find a replacement
Is this a good question?