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    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    Okay, will go searching for it! Thanks for giving a little hope
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    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    Fair enough, I appreciate your help! Could you link the video perhaps?
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    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    Alright, one more thing. I see some sort of scratches on the side of the APU. Would that cause an issue? I have circled it in blue here -
  4. ArseBadger

    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    So there's a possibility that the solder balls under the APU are either cracked or bridged? Would that be a possible problem other then dead APU?
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    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    Thats sucks, I guess it'll be a donor board. Thanks for the feedback!
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    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    *Update* : have found more "short to ground" components, would like some help on where the origin of the issue might be. Here are the pictures that I took and have circled in blue the shorted components-
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    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    And what does that mean? The board isn't booting from what I tested
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    Hardware 5 points short to ground, need help identifying issue.

    I've got a free motherboard and it seems as there are 5 points shorted to ground. I can't seem to get the reason on why it's shorted but it looks like it has been tinkered with. Here are the photos of the front motherboard and close up of the issue.
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