Richard @messaroundery.net · Jan 8 Cursed capacitor 2.0: it gets worse, as this time it was soldered on at the factory. Yet another FIC Core 2 Duo laptop from a local OEM.
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smells like parasitic inductance
These FICs also have one of the most infuriating design decisions I've ever seen in a laptop. Another model had a wired battery in the same spot that I miraculously pulled and replaced using tweezers. Full disassembly takes time and the old plastics *will* break.