In diagnosing a for-parts Framework 13 11th Gen Intel mainboard, I shorted a component on the bottom side of the board . I’m looking for help in identifying it. I’ve attached two pictures of the component - one showing the shorted component’s location on the bottom of the mainboard (circled in red), and another from my microscope camera.
The component looks to have M??8E M3H written on it (the ?? characters are unknown and obscured by the burn mark caused by the short). It is unclear to me whether this component is labeled as UC11, PUZ301, or PLZ302 on the mainboard, as all three labels are equidistant from the component.
Update: The RT6543 arrived today. I installed it, and am now getting the same POST blink code I was getting before the chip shorted (which was what I was troubleshooting before the short happened). Hopefully this means the CPU is still ok!
I’m currently waiting on some tools to arrive so I can manually flash the BIOS, since the hex blink code is telling me there’s some kind of BIOS issue. I’ll post again here once the tools arrive and I try flashing.
What blink code are you getting?
What is the full history of the problem?
What might have caused it to fail?
A good place to start is getting CPU uart and EC CCD connected. To see the cpu console and the ec console.
I think you can use the EC CCD to see the CPU console. You just plug it into a different slot.
. I’m looking for help in identifying it. I’ve attached two pictures of the component - one showing the shorted component’s location on the bottom of the mainboard (circled in red), and another from my microscope camera.
