A subscriber had sent in this 17-inch Dell #Alienware 17 R4 gaming laptop because the laptop had shut off while playing a game and never came back on. This looked like another dead motherboard because it shorted out the charger when it was plugged in. I opened it up and used my multimeter to measure all the power rails and check for a short. I saw a dead short on the main 19v power rail. It was time to see if I could fix this motherboard. I had to pull this board out and get it under the microsc

This Alienware M17 R3 has some high performance #technology and it's in my #computer repair shop because it's overheating just like every other #gaming #laptop that comes through my doors. The cause of this is of course multiple blankets of lint clogging the heatsink and forcing the CPU and GPU to cook themselves. So I'm cleaning it out and replacing the thermal paste. These high #tech fans are very powerful and that means they collect all the dust floating around in your room. #techtok