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I tried to power on my ASUS Pun­dit P1-AH2 but there was just the fan blow­ing like crazy and the blue LED – no beep, no video. I dis­as­sem­bled the whole Pun­dit just to see the same result. I also checked the PSU, every­thing was ok. I was run­ning out of ideas so I started to shake the Pun­dit box. I dis­cov­ered that a SMD tran­sis­tor felt out of box, great I thought!

After search­ing the nee­dle in the haystack I dis­cov­ered the miss­ing tran­sis­tor just below the CPU. I sol­dered the lit­tle beast on the main­board and my Pun­dit is now work­ing like a charm.

There are some posts about this error in the Asus sup­port forum.