I bought a Dell WDTB19 Docking Station to use with my XPS 15 9570 (also bought used a week prior) but noticed the battery discharging all the way to 0% when using the dock and the laptop heating up abnormally next to the thunderbolt port.
Then I found out about the PQ208 MOSFET burning up in this laptops after a BIOS Update.
There are many other reported cases at Dell's forum:
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-15-9570-TB16-USB-Type-C-no-longer-charging/td-p/7317594/page/7On the Dell's forum, their solution was a motherboard replacement under warranty, but mine is out of warranty now.
Dell doesn't seem to recognize it's their fault and at least warn users not to upgrade the BIOS and use a thunderbolt dock.
How it looked at the start:
After I desoldered the MOSFET (PCB is charred underneath and the big pad lifted)
I am yet to understand how this happens.
Below is a part of the schematic (page 57).
PQ208 is part of a Back-to-Back MOSFET switch arrangement that connects the USB Type C Vbus to the the same part of the charging circuit as the DC barrel jack.
Maybe during firmware update the microcontroller handling EN_PD_HV1 released the signal but I can't see how it would have burned the MOSFET since power flows from source to drain and it wouldn't be flowing through the body diode to heat the mosfet up.
I would do some bodge wiring of a mosfet here, but this trace and MOSFET handles 6.5A to power the laptop and recharge the battery.
The Drain pad is lifted, I dont know of any glue that will handle the reflow temperatures of a new MOSFET here.
Do you have any suggestions for repair?
Full PDF schematic is attached for looking around.