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After open bottom cover a Motherboard part attached to magnet in cover

While doing a SSD swap, I removed the Bottom Cover, when preparting to assembly I notice a part of the motherboard attached to a magnet in the cover

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See where the item is missing

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You can see in this picture how the part should be (but is actually loose already)

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and how the cover has a magnet there (I assume is for cover detection)

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After this happened the Laptop is not powering on. Can we repair/re-attached the component? If a new motherboard is required, how can we avoid from happen again? the loose component is almost in direct contact with the magnet once installed the cover

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Alejandro Ontiveros  the component is a simple 1µH fixed inductor. I would not even doubt that you can resolder the one you have. As for preventing it, that will be a bit tougher. I’d try a few layers of aluminium foil over the inductor to prevent it from sticking to the magnet.

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