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After charging, laptop shut down and would not turn back on. I could smell some burning circuits. I broke the computer down and pulled the logic board. On the underside of the logic board I found a burnt piece labeled “R36 249 RR2” there are several of these chips. It even put a scorch mark on the underside material that sits under the logic board. Is this a replaceable part or will the whole logic board fried? Also don’t know what the material under the logic board is covering up but I am worried about the scorch through the material. Any help would be much appreciated. Context: Was uploading pictures to the computer from a SD card. After finishing and putting on the charger it was left for about an hour or so. Went back to finish what I was doing and there was nothing happening. Also when putting the charger on the led on mag pat lights up. Also when I press the button on the side of the computer next to the 6-7 led’s (that I assume are battery level indicators) they still show full green even though the computer will not turn on! Here are some pictures!
UPDATE* Better picture after gently cleaning with IA as recommended:
The board has trace damage, so it will need extensive rework in this situation :(. I hate to say it, but the motherboard is probably beyond repair judging from the closeup picture of the inductor that got damaged. It probably failed like this due to a ground short. At this point, your only options are to replace the motherboard or whole system, which will depend on what you want to do and the costs of both options. If you replace the whole system and decide to get a similar machine, you can use the old one for parts.
The big part with the references printed on is an inductor, and can be replaced by a lab doing component level repairs. Problem is that it is very likely that won’t be the only component in need to be replaced and it will need some investigation on the board to find open or shorted lines and other components involved. From the position of the inductor I’d think it might very well be along the vcore power line serving the CPU and there’s also a chance the processor could be involved. I’m afraid it probably won’t be a cheap and straight forward repair in any case but one cannot tell without testing. What you see burnt under the logic board is just one of the keyboard backlight layers, easily replaceable.
