Outbound Laptop Capacitor List & Repair Log

[Elemenoh]

It turns out this bodged in resistor near one of the legs of the HDD bracket was shorting against it. I added some kapton tape to it and the machine turned on!

Unfortunately the HDD is now not fully spinning up. It tries for maybe a second before giving up. Tried a bunch of cycles but it hasn't kicked on yet. Hoping I can get it working so I can image it. But worst case I can replace with a ZuluIDE and use one of the images @zigzagjoe posted on MLA.

 

[Elemenoh]

Here's what the HDD sounds like at boot. A ~1sec attempt to spin while the boot chime is happening.

 

[Elemenoh]

I connected the HDD's 12V/5V rails to a bench power supply and it still wouldn't spin up and was dragging down the 5V rail. Checked its main board with a thermal camera and found that a L272D at U15 was getting hot. That's an opamp that likely drives the motor. While I wait for a replacement IC, I set up a ZuluIDE V2 2.5 following @zigzagjoe's advice.

I'll post more details once I figure out how to best physically mount the ZuluIDE. But currently, I have it connected with a 10cm 40-position ribbon cable and jumper wires for +5V/Ground.

The bad L272D Opamp @ U15:

Temporary ZuluIDE connection:

A happy Outbound!