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  1. April 2nd, 2013, 04:20 PM #2
    Niclo Iste
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    Hello,

    From your description it sounds like a bad capacitor on the board. If it's not that then it could be the board was damaged by possibly a power surge of some sort. I have also seen this happen when moisture gets on the board like a drop of water/pop/coffee hits the right spot and doesn't out right kill the system but still damages it.

    I could suggest opening up the system and checking the capacitors for bulges and leaks but it may be harder to do with the system being a laptop.
    Last edited by Niclo Iste; April 2nd, 2013 at 04:22 PM.
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