Board-level repair assistant

The board is already telling you where it stopped.

volt.ai reads current draw, rails and power sequencing the way a bench technician does — then tells you which rung the board is stuck on, and what to measure next.

Built by a working microsoldering technician, on a knowledge base written from real bench cases — not scraped from the internet.

The method

Every dead board is stuck on one rung.

A board doesn't fail at random. It climbs a fixed ladder, and it stops at exactly one step. Find that step and you've bounded the fault. This is the sequence volt.ai walks you down.

VIN 19VAdapter reaches the board through the fuse and input MOSFETs
VSYSCharging IC produces the system rail — it gates all downstream power
3VALWAlways-on rail comes up and feeds the embedded controller
EC awakeClock running, reset released, firmware read from SPI flash
RSMRST#EC tells the chipset the rails are stable
SLP_S3#Power button pressed — main rails enable along the PGOOD chain
VCOREVRM delivers core voltage; the CPU can finally run
PLTRST#Reset released, BIOS fetched, POST — and you get a picture

If the sequence completes and there's still no display, the fault has moved out of the power system entirely. Knowing that saves you from probing rails for an hour.

Seven tools

The bench work, without the tab-hopping.

Each one does a job you'd otherwise do across three websites and a calculator.

Diagnosis

Current Diagnosis

Enter the reading and CPU generation. It maps the value to the stage the board stalled at, and names the circuit to check.

AI · vision

Datasheet

Type a part number or photograph the chip. It reads the real datasheet and lists the pins — and refuses to guess a pinout from memory.

Search

Find Schematics

Search by board number (LA-, DA0-, 820-) and pull the schematic or boardview.

AI

Error Code Solver

Paste a POST code or blue screen. Get what it means and where to look on the board.

Calculator

Ohm's Law

Voltage, current, resistance, power. Enter any two, get the other two.

Decoder

Resistor Checker

Colour bands (4/5/6) and SMD codes — 3-digit, 4-digit, R-notation, EIA-96 — plus power rating for current-sense sizing.

Decoder

Capacitor Decoder

Ceramic and film codes, tolerance letters, and substitute values when you don't have the exact part.

Library

Eighty lessons, written from the bench.

Every topic ends the same way: what to measure, what the reading means, and what the current draw looks like when it goes wrong. Available in English and Malay.

80lessons
7modules
3skill levels
ToolsComponents Power circuitsMain ICs MemorySignals & board Hardware
Answers that fit you

It asks your level first.

Set L1 to L4 and the same question gets a different answer. A beginner gets the jargon explained and smaller steps. An L4 gets straight to the injection technique without a lecture.

Send a photo of the board, ask by voice, or type. When a method has conditions that make the result valid, it gives you those conditions — or it doesn't teach the method at all.

Thirteen languages

Ask in your own language.

It replies in whatever language you write in. Technical terms stay in English, because that's what's printed on the schematic in front of you.

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volt.ai can be wrong. Cross-check every reading against the board and the schematic before you cut or lift anything — the same rule you'd apply to advice from any other technician.

Put a board on the bench and ask it something.