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I did with an SMD cap. This one: http://au.rs-online.com/web/p/aluminium-capacitors/7269896/ I did scrape the ground pad....exactly like Louis showed in that respective video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzcgT_fiVTA) I also avoided the mistake to put the cap on inversed like he did :P

I see. I replaced it with a normal size brand new 330uf Aluminium Electrolytic cap.

Yes, I replaced it. And since it did not solve the panics I started speculating why that might be. As I wrote in my first post when I measured after that rail with that cap it was 1.5v. The schematics, if I understand it correctly says is should be 1.8v. So I was speculating that the cap might...

Update: Being desperate of not being to use my laptop I did find a fix: I folded a little piece of hard paper into like 1cm thickness and kapton taped it to the MUX chip then when I screw the case back on it applies enough pressure so that the chip makes pretty okay contact (sometimes if I hold...

Thanks for the promt reply. I was suspecting that chip (that part needed the lightest touch for the screen to come back)... I know you guys are agains reflowing but I was speculating that if I cannot reball that chip a reflow might be my only chance....what do you think? Would this have any...

Hello! I Just signed up for the forum. I am also fairly new to all this so I apologize in advance if I say something silly but I'll try my best. I have a 2010 mpb with this motherboard. I found the youtube channel for some months now and I was very glad when I finally saw this new complete...