Greeting, I am long time watcher, not that active on the forums here, but maybe someone will know what to do. My
laptop charger power supply suddenly started to overheat, after six years of perfect service. After getting to ridiculously hot temperature, laptop (without battery, I do not have one) switches off completely, so I am assuming that the power supply just fails. When cools off, it is working again, until it gets too hot again. With another supply, from my brother's laptop everything seem to work just. Brother's suply is rated for 1.3A less than mine (the one which overheats), but I think it is ok since there is no battery charging stuff going on on my laptop, so that excess current is not needed.
The reason I am writing here is, what could cause the actual overheating? I have torn it apart, but I cant see any suspicious things going on. There are 4 electrolytic caps, 1 big beefy, I cant see the ratings of it and three smaller. Two of that smaller ones have bulky top. I believe the problem is in capacitors, since they had been in quite a high temperature for a long time. I will buy new adater for the laptop anyway but in a free time, I would like to repair that one, just to gain more knowledge. I could provide a foto of it if needed. What do you think about it? Thanks!