Repair Shop Can't Fix This Asus Laptop - Can I? Extended Cut

The best part of the video is when I went to your website and read from your last health post that you are “in complete remission”. I cannot feel happier for you. Congratulations!

As a ASUS technician, i really don't like these laptops, because of the hinges, when i need to replace the LCD cover and also because of the liquid metal... And also that IS a good contact with the liquid metal, you really don't need much of it.

Hi Steve! As others have pointed out, when video display issues (screen) are present, always hook up the machine to an external monitor. This will help you determine if it's the laptop screen or something with the GPU/main board. Also at the end when it wouldn't turn on, don't forget to reconnect the power cable when testing a no-power situation.

Can't you plug external monitor?

It takes a ton of effort to even try to fix... congrats on the video. The external monitor is a nice point made above. Without documentation... that s bravery. Thumbs up

You shouldn't take the screen cable out before unplugging the battery and definitely do not check with the multimeter like that on the 19v shorting with the data line will definitely kill the screen and very likely the GPU, thats happening with most of the new laptops, it probably already happened with the previous technician but anyway...

I have had many gaming laptops. I have never seen a laptop that the North and south bridges and VRAM were covered with thermal paste. I have always seen thermal pads. the previous owner may have watched many of the Youtube "experts" modifying the laptop with paste by removing thermal pads. The paste did not look as though it was factory applied. Congrats on your remission.

Getting fussy, "not like you guys are doing anything just sitting there watching." LoL. ❤

Hello, I am a long time viewer and subscriber, as a 40+ years electronics repair guy an IT tech, I specialized in laptop repair, when troubleshooting a laptop that powers on but has no display you always want to first hook up an external monitor to the laptop and see if you get a display that way, if you do then you pretty much know everything on the laptop is working other that the built in display, your problem on this particular laptop was most likely the laptop display panel itself and/or the display panel inverter board.

17:30 that is touchscreen connector . Backlight is generated from 19v on a screen board

I like these videos regardless of the results, i just enjoy your explanations and in depth to it. You're the only person i watch that does this and you even inspired me to be more hands on with stuff.

Steve, one of the ways I check to see if it's a screen issue is to plugin an external monitor then see if the computer boots/displays to it.

Was thinking that before you removed the screen and started digging around, why wouldn't you put an external monitor on the computer? I would have started with that... Glad you're health is improving!!!

You try an external monitor to prove the GPU/laptop is working, if it is you shine a light at the screen to see if it's displaying but there is no back-light. If it's no back-light the circuit is at the back of the screen at the bottom.

A great attempt, when I looked at this board bios chip I got worried too. Great Video

Steve.... Get yourself a CH341a USB pluggable programmer... dirt cheap! Under 10 buck. Very easy to use! You won't believe how many laptops only require a bios re-flash to work!

Hi Steve! Glad to see you doing well still with your treatment. With BIOS programming and other stuff, I work for a company that can help with this if you are interested - we work on fixing devices all the time, especially if it needs a BIOS reprogram.

Intersil 9241h is Buck Boost Battery Charger IC....so reflowing or replacing it may fix charging issue as you've done. Did you try disconnecting battery, plug in charger & hook it up to an external display to see if it actually powers on to bios/post screen? If it don't power on, it could be that Winbond bios chip that might need replacing and flashing with correct bios? I would also clean all flux off the board especially around gpu bga chip / southbridge chips etc by flushing with 99.9% ipa and air duster.

I remember back in the early 2000’s when I was a computer repair tech I would also work on laptops from time to time and those darn ribbon cables were such a pain to reconnect cause my fingers were too big lol . Great video always enjoy.

And how much is in this broken state ? 600? 800 ? , Dude , respect for all the effort , good for you that you have that rich uncle ...