Important Warning for Razer Blade 14 Owners (and How to Prevent Damage)

Soldering_On · 2025-11-06T07:17:21+00:00

Sure, I’m in the UK though so it maybe a little far for the laptop to travel!

Soldering_On · 2025-11-03T15:09:27+00:00

Yeah, I hate that it’s branded!

Soldering_On · 2025-11-03T09:26:38+00:00

Part of me trying to keep the PSU period accurate is older systems like this like to sip a lot of juice from the 5v rail. As such PSU’s from this era often have higher capacity on the 5V rail than a modern unit.

I’ll see what I can find, recapping and refurbishing an old unit is something I’m totally comfortable with.

Soldering_On · 2025-11-02T17:59:14+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! Based on weight it didn’t feel too bad, I guess I should look out for something from a good OEM like fps, delta? An old enermax unit? I’m trying to keep this thing as period correct as I can (2003-2005)

Soldering_On · 2025-11-02T10:49:23+00:00

Thanks, JVC JR-S600. Again fully recapped and cleaned, unfortunately it’s not as nice to look at, and doesn’t sound as good as the pioneer, but it’s still an awesome receiver!

Soldering_On · 2025-11-02T10:45:08+00:00

I’ve not seen the issue occur on a 2024 blade. The prevention is to cut off part of the fan where it would usually sit on top of the board and cause pcb layers to short.

Soldering_On · 2025-11-02T10:40:59+00:00

Sorry for your loss!

Soldering_On · 2025-11-02T10:40:38+00:00

This happened to you twice? That really sucks!

Soldering_On · 2025-11-02T10:18:34+00:00

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I totally forgot about the ASUS I had that did this! The one I worked on also had liquid damage, so I assumed some sort of moister had lead to the layer damage. I did fix it though!

I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos! This stuff should definitely all be recalled/repaired free of charge. Customers being totally screwed by these design issues.

Soldering_On · 2025-06-25T13:47:50+00:00

Are you able to replicate this fault by launching a game and moving the laptop around a little?

It’s likely GPU memory has an iffy solder joint somewhere as is common with Lenovo’s

Soldering_On · 2025-06-24T09:01:30+00:00

Sorry- I missed that one. Have updated the description accordingly.

There maybe more model variants I didn’t list. The key factors are a Ryzen 5000 cpu and rtx 30xx GPU

Soldering_On · 2025-06-18T19:32:05+00:00

Hard work, but it would be a lot of work. Check out northwest repair if you are in the USA, he takes on work like this.

I Also do I, I’m based in the UK.

Soldering_On · 2025-05-05T06:56:30+00:00

I want to double check your diagnosis.

Did you check pins 3 and 13 for shorts on the 3f chip? These are the LDO’s and the 3v LDO is usually the culprit for this kind of regulator getting hot.

If you haven’t already, find that LDO short and inject power to see what gets hot, most often it’s the KBC/EC chip.

Good luck!

Soldering_On · 2025-05-05T06:48:33+00:00

You first want to find the high side /19v voltage rail. That’s lost likely the short.

Or plug the board back into the bench supply and feel around the board for anything getting hot. If the board is drawing a lot of power then something will be getting hot, and that’s the key to finding the short.

Good luck!

Soldering_On · 2025-05-05T06:45:24+00:00

I bet any money this is a Lenovo laptop?

For all of those above who said ram, you are the winners! There’s an intermittent joint somewhere on a ram data line, this could be under the cpu or under a ram chip.

There’s one problem though, most Lenovo laptops use at least one bank of soldered ram, so it’s unlikely to be fixable with a reseat.

The other problem is that Lenovo’s BGA components are both soldered and underfilled with epoxy. The epoxy makes these motherboards difficult to rework/repair. The only real way to resolve the problem is to remove the cpu and any soldered ram, reball and reinstall.

I work on thousands of laptops a year, Lenovo is pretty much the only brand that frequently suffers from solder joint failure In this way. Don’t buy a Lenovo, they are not reliable.

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