ADLINK RTX 3000 MXM suddenly died?

[Hussain Alhadher]

Hi guys,

My RTX 3000 suddenly shut the laptop off while gaming.

Now the charger LED goes out immediately when I plug it into the laptop with the RTX installed.

I tested with battery removed and i had the same issue 

I removed the RTX and the charger light stays on 

I plugged in my old 765m in and charger works normally 

 

So it looks like the fault is on the RTX 3000 itself.

I don’t see any obvious burnt components. Could it be a shorted mosfet or capacitor or vrm component, and is this usually repairable?

[SuperMG]

1 hour ago, Hussain Alhadher said:

Hi guys,

My RTX 3000 suddenly shut the laptop off while gaming.

Now the charger LED goes out immediately when I plug it into the laptop with the RTX installed.

I tested with battery removed and i had the same issue 

I removed the RTX and the charger light stays on 

I plugged in my old 765m in and charger works normally 

 

So it looks like the fault is on the RTX 3000 itself.

I don’t see any obvious burnt components. Could it be a shorted mosfet or capacitor or vrm component, and is this usually repairable?

Maybe it's shorting between the heatsink and the GPU's components? Happened to me. Make sure to have a properly set heatsink with the correct thermal pads.

 

No burn marks on the tiny capacitors?

 

Was your GPU heavily thermal throttling before?

 

If it's completely dead then...

 

There are options to upgrade to a 120Hz display and to a better RTX 4060/4070 card.

[Hussain Alhadher]

[Hussain Alhadher]

[Hussain Alhadher]

I also thought it could be the heatsink, but I tested the RTX installed without the heatsink with the laptop powered off and just plugging in the charger still makes the charger LED shut off. With the RTX removed, or with my GTX 765M installed, the charger works normally.

I don’t see any obvious burnt capacitors either. Before it died the GPU was usually around 68–72°C at 96–99% load, so it was performing well and wasn’t heavily thermal throttling.

So I’m thinking there may be a short somewhere on the RTX board itself.