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Apologies for any confusion. Yes it was shorted to ground, the resistor appeared to be fried and the short to ground was gone once it was removed from the board. What can I replace it with as I'm struggling to find the correct part number
Not easy to find: original is 0.003 ohm (3 miliohm).
Is I(current) sense resistor, with special Kelvin lines connection.
2-5 miliohm resistor in same format should work.
OK that's a good point.
I'm at a loss now ,I still have no screen turning on and what seems like it powering up for 10 seconds then off for 5 seconds then repeating. after a couple of minutes of this I can feel the cpu heat sink getting warm so it has some kind of fight left in it.
Is there anything else I can try or do I have to admit defeat now and give up on this one?
I presume I shouldn't get short to ground on both sides of L7210 and L7220, is it worth injecting voltage to see if anything stands out? or should I just throw in the towel?
So checking the power rails tonight before giving up I notice PP3v3_S4 is missing, could it be this causing the power cycle no boot? Best way to check diagnsoe? I'm tempted to inject voltage?