Did I accidentally break a tiny piece inside my laptop?
Did I accidentally break a tiny piece inside my laptop?
Hi, I need some advice and ideas from you. I gave maintenance to an Asus TUF Gaming FA506II laptop with these features: * Asus TUF Gaming FA506II Laptop * CPU: HexaCore AMD Ryzen 5 4600H * RAM: DDR4 16 Gb * Video 1: AMD Radeon™ Graphics (512 MB) * Video 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (4 GB) * Display: Panda LM156LF-2F01 [15.6" LCD] * SSD M2 NVMe: Samsung SSD 980 1TB During assembly, I accidentally pried off a small ceramic capacitor with my nail. I finished putting everything together and turned the laptop on (as shown in these pictures without the capacitor), and it is working fine for now. I uploaded several photos. One shows the gear, another photo marks the spot where the cap was, and a third closer shot uses red arrows to point to the same thing with a yellow arrow showing how they match up (because it was the exact same). https://imgur.com/a/iXQIXBK View: https://imgur.com/a/iXQIXBK My questions are: What role do you think this capacitor plays in the circuit? Can I keep using the laptop without it? Thanks so much for your time. I appreciate your advice. Greetings. PS. Pardon my English.
What job do you think this part could do in the circuit? It's placed near where the GPU fan connects, which means it probably helps turn on that specific fan when needed. Do you think I can keep using my laptop without it? You should look for a magnet to find it, since there isn't any other tool or thing that will tell you exactly where the missing piece is.
Thanks Lutfij. Yeah, I agree. It sounds like the problem might have something to do with a fan that keeps going right on its own. The thing is, even though the fan seems to work fine, it changes speed depending on how hot things get. So far, I've tried to solder the capacitor again, but it falls off during the process and I just let it be.