A spilled coke spilled over a laptop motherboard and fried the voltage regulator. Credit: http://www.badfirmware.org/
Archive for October, 2009
MAX1939 melts a leg in motherboard
Thursday, October 29th, 2009This was not a user-serviceable part
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
Resistors destroyed by RF
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Resistor was turned into a dipole antenna and coupled to the parts seen. They were destroyed when brought near a 40-50W radio transmitter. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
FET and inductor destroyed by wrong power supply
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Customer plugged wrong transformer into board which caused the FET to fail, and then L2 to heat up and fall off the board. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
Regulator failure causes capacitor to explode
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Regulator next to capacitor fails and causes massive capacitor explosion. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/