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Solved! SSD killed my laptop?

Apr 2, 2018
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I have an Asus GL752VW-DH71 and today I bought an SSD card.
It's an XPG SX6000 M.2 2280 128GB SSD.

After installing, laptop did not turn on anymore, looks like it does have power, power light is on and usb accessories turn on, but nothing else.
The monitor doesn't get any power at all. Can't even hear the HDD rotating or any sign of a life.

Tried taking the SSD off, taking HDD off, swapping RAM chips between each other and their slots, everything stays the same.


Help please!!
 
Solution
special (standard tech) equipment and some knowledge would be required to determine what really happen.
theoretically, your laptop should work with this SSD.
if it was the SSD, you'd probably see some smoke.
Most probably something happen during the upgrade.
Better would be to take the laptop to a shop/service center
 


Ummm.. I actually smelled a weird smell for a minute. Could that be the smell of my motherboard getting fried? And should I take the ssd back to the seller as defective?
 
special (standard tech) equipment and some knowledge would be required to determine what really happen.
theoretically, your laptop should work with this SSD.
 
Solution