So after reading a couple books, and reading up, I decided I would try to repair something useful. This would give me somewhere to start, a friend had this XBlade power supply that died on him. I do not know exactly how it died, but apparently it just stopped working one day.
I decided to pop it open and take a look, it had been sitting for over a year and a half, so I am not worried about any residual charge left over. I could not find anything too interesting, but did notice a couple things. There is a 1000uf 10v capacitor that appears to be bulging from the top. Also, but less interesting, the area around this green device labeled 10S050M, perhaps a capacitor, is discolored slightly darker than the rest of the board. This is both on the top and bottom side of the board. I am going to go through and diode test the transistors perhaps later today, and will see if anything is up there.
Help on this repair project would be greatly appreciated, there must be a way to fix it, and someone here must know how to help.
I decided to pop it open and take a look, it had been sitting for over a year and a half, so I am not worried about any residual charge left over. I could not find anything too interesting, but did notice a couple things. There is a 1000uf 10v capacitor that appears to be bulging from the top. Also, but less interesting, the area around this green device labeled 10S050M, perhaps a capacitor, is discolored slightly darker than the rest of the board. This is both on the top and bottom side of the board. I am going to go through and diode test the transistors perhaps later today, and will see if anything is up there.
Help on this repair project would be greatly appreciated, there must be a way to fix it, and someone here must know how to help.