Possible to replace USB ports in Acer Nitro 5 AN515-31-58SH?
Hi. The 2 USB (2.0) ports died suddenly a few days back (fortunately both the USB 3.0 ports are fine for now) and in the Device Manager under USB devices there are much fewer entries compared to before. I booted into Linux Mint but the ports weren't working. In the BIOS as well storage devices attached to the USB 2.0 ports weren't detected. So I guess they are truly borked. I used to plug a USB fan into them and a hub ( USB mouse and Wireless mouse). I had noticed that the fan used to draw 600mA watch exceeded the 500mA permitted over USB 2.0 but I thought it may not be an issue. I guess that's the culprit?
Anyway do the USB 2.0 ports reside on their own daughter board separate from the motherboard? If not I don't think there's any possibility of fixing them.
In the future if the USB 3.0 ports also fail I wonder how I will be able to reinstall Windows if it becomes necessary.
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You can buy the USB IO board for the Nitro AN515-31, search the below Acer IO Board part number and see if you can get a replacement board. Good luck.
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You can buy the USB IO board for the Nitro AN515-31, search the below Acer IO Board part number and see if you can get a replacement board. Good luck.
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What's the arrow mark referring to?
I looked around and it seems that the IO board may be available on ebay.
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The charging lights have also stopped working.
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That is great as its just a plug and play type installation for that IO board. Don't worry about the red arrow, as I got that caption from the laptops SG and that is the DC-IN port mainboard plug which this caption was showing for changing the DC_IN port.
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Thanks. BTW are the USB 3.0 ports also on a separate board?
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No, the USB 3.0 that is on the left side of the laptop is part of the mainboard and if it gets faulty, then it needs to be changed separately by a technician as these ports are very hard to solder and you need a microscope and micro soldering tools. The USB 3.0 is the circled port below.
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Strangely the USB 2.0 ports started working again last night. I first noticed the charging lights were back and happily the ports were also working. Only change was that I had unplugged the charger after a really long time.
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