First post, by danieljm
So, I got my hands on a Packard Bell Multimedia Supreme 486 (PB410A). Thankfully, I managed to get the battery off the motherboard before the leakage was able to do anything more than a bit of cosmetic damage.
But the PSU is another matter entirely. Looks like some of the caps leaked all over one corner of the board.
I removed the bigger caps in that corner and cleaned up the whole thing. The top of the board looks discoloured but I don't see much damage. The bottom though certainly looks a little worse with the exposed copper, but I'm hopeful that it isn't bad enough to cause problems.
My plan is to just replace all the caps as well as the fuse, which I can see is blown. But this is something I've never done before, so is there anything else I should do, or things I should poke and prod at? Anything I can test with my multimeter that could point me to other potential issues?
Thanks!