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21 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Not a reason, unless you're another one of those that sends 12V to the chipset?

 

I don't do tech support cuz I am lazy, not because I suck.

I mostly meant having to take accountability and having to buy a new device because somehow, you touching their old ass hardware, was the tipping point for it to break. That coupled with "it used to work and now it does not. You're the last one who touched it (months ago), so it's your fault".

Friends and families are great at pushing blame onto you because they feel entitled to something or another, since you're their "friend" or "family". Fck 'em.

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Ok family contacted CNN apparently this isnt news......

 

Friend brought there laptop round to re paiste the cpu and gpu nothing we havent done before..........

 

Step 1 open case.

 

Step 3 start unplugging things fans........... Wait what was step 2? Oh yes unplug battery. BUGGER......

 

Need a new laptop.

 

I can kinda laugh about it now but FFS......... 

 

Well Im living on bean on toast for six months and sleeping in the dog house as we have to help replace it now.

 

Figure you guys might find it funny and stop you skipping steps and learn from my mistakes as I never do!

 

Good luck.

 

 

 

 

 

Clever buggers will be along later to help until then ya stuck with me 🙂

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25 minutes ago, Apemanonline said:

have to help replace it now

Why? Are you a professional repair guy? No, and your friend knew that. So he took the risk and handed his laptop to you, apparently w/o switching it off. That's not on you, it's his problem :old-eyeroll:

 

As it is, it may even have been a case of your "friend" setting you up to fail so his new laptop was not on his expense 💸🤬

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Ayy my man that's the lesson we all learn at some point.

 

Just so you understand how things like this might happen. My friend tried to disassemble her laptop to re-paste it, and due to funky design decisions by Asus she had to disconnect the screen cable to remove the cooling. Like in your case, she did not unplug the battery. She popped it off, it slipped off her fingers and touched the components on the mobo with a metal part of the connector, making a small but "you know you messed up" kind of spark. Display IC dead, luckily got fixed in the repair shop.

 

Always unplug your batts kids. Anyway, you sure the laptop is done? What happened to it exactly?

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46 minutes ago, Apemanonline said:

Figure you guys might find it funny

It's the kinda thing that's never funny, at least to me.

 

46 minutes ago, Apemanonline said:

we have to help replace it now

Respect for taking accountability.

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1 hour ago, Apemanonline said:

Ok family contacted CNN apparently this isnt news......

 

Friend brought there laptop round to re paiste the cpu and gpu nothing we havent done before..........

 

Step 1 open case.

 

Step 3 start unplugging things fans........... Wait what was step 2? Oh yes unplug battery. BUGGER......

 

Need a new laptop.

 

I can kinda laugh about it now but FFS......... 

 

Well Im living on bean on toast for six months and sleeping in the dog house as we have to help replace it now.

 

Figure you guys might find it funny and stop you skipping steps and learn from my mistakes as I never do!

 

Good luck.

 

 

 

 

 

Shit happens. 🙂 

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1 hour ago, Apemanonline said:

Ok family contacted CNN apparently this isnt news......

 

Friend brought there laptop round to re paiste the cpu and gpu nothing we havent done before..........

 

Step 1 open case.

 

Step 3 start unplugging things fans........... Wait what was step 2? Oh yes unplug battery. BUGGER......

 

Need a new laptop.

 

I can kinda laugh about it now but FFS......... 

 

Well Im living on bean on toast for six months and sleeping in the dog house as we have to help replace it now.

 

Figure you guys might find it funny and stop you skipping steps and learn from my mistakes as I never do!

 

Good luck.

 

 

 

 

 

Not seeing anything that would make me think the laptop was dead.

 

You can unplug cables while things are on without killing them.   It's not an instant death sentence.

 

I'd take it to a real repair shop.

"Do what makes the experience better" - in regards to PCs and Life itself.

 

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2 hours ago, Dedayog said:

You can unplug cables while things are on without killing them.   It's not an instant death sentence.

While I do agree and wonder why he wrote that in the first place,

It does remind me of the few times I blew my Iphone while trying to fix something in it.

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5 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Not seeing anything that would make me think the laptop was dead.

 

You can unplug cables while things are on without killing them.   It's not an instant death sentence.

 

I'd take it to a real repair shop.

Yeah done this mistake multiple times. Sometimes all I had to do was wait a day or so and boom laptops back.

 

Had this happen with my own lenovo legion where after opening the ram shield simply fell out (improper install from factory I think) and zapped the system for a bit before I knocked it off with a plastic spudger.

 

Its still goin fine 3 years on.

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8 hours ago, Apemanonline said:

Need a new laptop.

You're certain about that? I've done a lot of work on laptops without disconnecting batteries
 

8 hours ago, Apemanonline said:

help replace it now.

If it is indeed dead, I can see helping replace it, but I'd never force a friend into hardship over such a simple mistake. Especially if you were working for free

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Mate took it to the shop the guys tested it some how the power 1.5v and 0.8v should be in the chipset but they check it was 12v which is bad.

 

The repair guys gets all the stuff we misadventure so we know hes not ripping us off.

 

Either way. DISCONNECT THE DAM BATTERY DUMB ASS! today's lesson. LOL

Clever buggers will be along later to help until then ya stuck with me 🙂

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13 hours ago, whispous said:

I'm intrigued to know more about what this implies, OP

Lets just say this isnt the first time I done dumb things and regrettably wont be the last LMAO.

Clever buggers will be along later to help until then ya stuck with me 🙂

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46 minutes ago, Apemanonline said:

Mate took it to the shop the guys tested it some how the power 1.5v and 0.8v should be in the chipset but they check it was 12v which is bad.

 

The repair guys gets all the stuff we misadventure so we know hes not ripping us off.

 

Either way. DISCONNECT THE DAM BATTERY DUMB ASS! today's lesson. LOL

You did more than what you said in the OP for that to happen.

 

Maybe learn more about how to work on things before diving in?  

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How did you end up sending 12V to the chipset...

 

 

Well, nice that you're taking accountability.

Things like this is why I don't do tech support for anyone anymore.

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9 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

How did you end up sending 12V to the chipset...

 

 

Well, nice that you're taking accountability.

Things like this is why I don't do tech support for anyone anymore.

Not a reason, unless you're another one of those that sends 12V to the chipset?

 

I don't do tech support cuz I am lazy, not because I suck.

"Do what makes the experience better" - in regards to PCs and Life itself.

 

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9 hours ago, TetraSky said:

How did you end up sending 12V to the chipset...

 

Not shore just reporting what i was told by the guy at the shop. I doubt ill ever know how.

 

9 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Maybe learn more about how to work on things before diving in? 

Fare point but if you can honestly tell me you never dived in and messed up ill take ya point 🙂

Clever buggers will be along later to help until then ya stuck with me 🙂

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21 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Not a reason, unless you're another one of those that sends 12V to the chipset?

 

I don't do tech support cuz I am lazy, not because I suck.

I mostly meant having to take accountability and having to buy a new device because somehow, you touching their old ass hardware, was the tipping point for it to break. That coupled with "it used to work and now it does not. You're the last one who touched it (months ago), so it's your fault".

Friends and families are great at pushing blame onto you because they feel entitled to something or another, since you're their "friend" or "family". Fck 'em.

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On 1/31/2026 at 7:15 AM, Apemanonline said:

Not shore just reporting what i was told by the guy at the shop. I doubt ill ever know how.

Sounds like you shorted something which made a buck converter blow. They're super efficient at stepping down voltage but their failure modes tend to take out everything downstream from them.

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Quick note: are you sure the laptop was working before you opened it up?

 

I don't know how chummy that friend is, but it is a possibility that he handed you a broken laptop to get you to replace it for him.

 

Also, when I repair things, I do it for free, but I take no responsability if the repair fails. If they want it done by a pro, they should pay a pro.

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