ASUS ROG Flow X16: The Ultimate Gaming Experience
Link: https://stepspoint.com/asus-rog-flow-x16-the-ultimate-gaming-experience/

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Someone needed a laptop fixed. Said it wouldn't power on. Newish (last 3 years) Asus Vivobook.
Pulled it apart, verified voltage at the power input, verified at the battery. Checked all mosfets, verified no issues there... Was checking edge of the board with microscope, and saw a bunch of goo. Looked almost like flux. Decided to pull heatsink off and investigate components under and ended up finding where the magic pixies escaped from.

Unsure what the chip is. I can make out a 7 after the =, but not seeing anything online.

Snagged a motherboard on auction site that has a broken power adapter port.. hoping the chip on that isn't burnt. Same general MB, just different processor, less RAM, etc. But, should be the same chip in that spot.

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I have setup mah new system.
I had some issues with the wifi (Mediatek 7921e), but after a few hours, I found out that I need to run a newer kernel. And I learned that with nixos it's a childs play to change kernels.
And I am in my KDE moonphase, running #kde_plasma wayland on this beast. And full #amd because we all know the famous Linus quote.
Specs: #asuslaptop ROG Strix G513QY, 64gigs ram, 2tb ssd storage, ryzen 5900x, radeon 6800m.