Introduction
Apologies for the state of this guide, it was created in minutes, though I hope it can be of help, please feel free to improve it!
What you need
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The LED should be green when it is connected, here it is completely off.
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The device does not show up at all in the device manager and windows does not react in any way when connected.
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This involves prying and will probably scratch the shell.
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Start at the cable side using a sharp prying tool or similar
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When the lid has been removed, there are two tiny philips screws that needs to be removed.
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At the side facing down, close to the cable connector there is a fuse (located by the red arrow)
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The blue lines shows the circuit that is usually closed if the fuse hasn't blown.
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Measure the resistance of the fuse, if it is higher than 1000 ohm ( in my case 20 kOhms) consider it to be faulty
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I used a piece of LED - leg and bent it properly to create a perfect short-wire.
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Be careful when you solder, you do not want lead anywhere else!
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I used double sided molding tape (red), in the upper and lower part of the chassi.
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Put the screws back and align the board properly.
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Using glue is an alternative, though troublesome if you would ever want to reopen it.
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18 Comments
This worked for me, thank you! I must have blown the fuse plugging it into my USB hub port that provides 2.4Amps. Although I never used a short wire, just enough solder to bridge the gap.
What type of fuse is it however? Because now its working but no more fuse, so I’m worried if I plug it into a high amp port again it will fry the device.
Thanks! I would have preferred to replace the fuse, but since I didn’t have a replacement fuse or a setup in which to work on such a small board I just soldered over the blown fuse to short it and it worked.
Worked perfectly. Any wire suffices for this.
hey someone can tell what fuse i need to buy spec thanks :)
