Lenovo ideapad motherboard's capacitor

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maejortrippy - Oct 20, 2021 at 09:52 PM
HelpiOS Posts 14435 Registration date Friday October 30, 2015 Status Moderator Last seen September 26, 2024 - Aug 9, 2023 at 02:57 PM
Hello, I own a lenovo ideapad gaming 3 15.6" laptop

So, yesterday I was upgrading my RAM into 16GB, everything was going fine until, trying to put this little metal that protects the 2 ram slow then accidently it moved to the left and sort of burned this capacitor PL202 . One of my friends tested the motherboard and the capacitor and told me it caused no damaged but still im confused on what exactly is the use of this PL202 capacitor and how i really be sure that nothing bad is going to happed to my motherboard as the time goes by. Would totally appreciated any comments about it. Thanks

pd: no, i didnt disconnected the battery or drained all energy before doing this and yes i know i shoul've have. but now were here and im a little worried about this "not-burned but looks burned " PL202 thing.

here are the links for the photos just in case.
https://files.fm/u/f33jcpt36

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HelpiOS Posts 14435 Registration date Friday October 30, 2015 Status Moderator Last seen September 26, 2024 1,860
Oct 21, 2021 at 05:11 AM
Hi,

The PL202 component is an inductor. It stores electric energy and release it to the circuit.

According to your photos, your laptop may continue to work, but I recommend you to consider replacing the inductor to avoid problems in the future.

Good luck
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asfddrhgg Posts 5 Registration date Tuesday March 8, 2022 Status Member Last seen June 8, 2022 3 > MaejorTripper
Mar 8, 2022 at 01:32 PM
Do you have any updates on the laptop. Did you replace anything?
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I thought I was the only idiot but no. The same thing just happened to me, I'm worried, my computer is new

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