I’m sure this customer was another that said it stopped working after doing some updates……man those updates.
Anyway it’s an Acer version of those cheap, thin, 13 inch laptops, the SSD is built onto the mainboard so with a dead mainboard data is lost so board repair or no data.
I’ve seen two of these type of machines previously, a Kogan and Lenovo version, both with board failure not related to liquid damage that I was unable to fix, no board view or schematics and terrible design makes me not a fan of them.
Luckily nothing at all needed to be replaced, the corrosion was mostly just the solder joins, the ends of some components were oxidized more than I would like but they all seem to work fine with their solder joins refreshed, only one place with a broken connection that needed to be bridged with a wire, the only thing that couldn’t be salvaged was the CMOS battery connector and we don’t really need a CMOS battery, just means it doesn’t know about time passing while it’s turned off and windows 10 is pretty aggressive with syncing the time and data with time servers for the selected time zone so the time and data will never be wrong for long. I think you can configure it to sync the time more frequently. These laptops have barely any or no BIOS options that are changeable other than setting the time and date so it’s not like losing BIOS configuration is a real problem either.
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