The Case Of The Distraught Engineer

Case book date August 24, 2021

A distraught engineer near Victoria BC is presenting to the shop, his computer “old faithful” with the symptom of no longer powering on.

Suspecting foul play, we removed the side panel and found the smoking gun – the CMOS battery had erupted

Battery guts had leaked all down the mainboard, corroding circuits and damaging chips

It had leaked all the way down to the power supply

The motherboard was dead.

Case closed.