UnH1ng3dOld laptop died 🥲
RomkslrquszThat’s normal Inside of the inductor looks like this:
You can also use a multimeter to test across the inductor. It should have no resistance / will beep in continuity mode.
Thanks. I guess I was just hoping it would be an easy find and fix. The beep confirmed hope is lost 🥲
Just so you know, as an inductor is just a small coil of copper, the resistivity might be low enough to trigger the beeping on the multimeter! So maybe it’s not dead. I’ve seen a lot of burned down inductor and trust me it looks way worse.
If your multimeter can measure resistance in miliHoms, you should be able to measure at least ~10mR or more (that order of magnitude) Note that measuring a circuit like so is not guaranteed since there’s other stuff on a PCB that gets measured at the same time.
Did you remove the motherboard and looked at the other side?
Ah, I realise my wording was very confusing there. I meant: Because the inductor is NOT the problem - I don’t have any idea what the problem is - therefore the LAPTOP is dead (not the inductor)😂