ytesfay80
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I had this board on the shelf for a while since I couldn't figure out the issue. It has already been UC'd and all the main power rails are present, the fan spins, cpu gets warm, usb mouse lights up but there was nothing showing on the screen, thunderbolt wasn't working and no chime. Thunderbolt comes from U1900 so I assume this may be a problem.
There was small liquid damage by the U1900 chip and I saw that C1910 looked burned on Pin 1.
The VDD Pin, PPVRTC_G3H and PP3V3_TBTLC measured 3.3v but I still replaced the chip.
When I removed C1910 the pad for Pin1 was gone so I put a new chip on and ran a wire from Pin 1 of U1900 to C1910.
After I finished replacing everything and plugged the charger in I saw I was only getting 2.6v on Pins 1 and 5 of U1900 as well as on C1910/C0890/C0891. R2040 which is no stuff had 3.3v on Pin 1 and 2.6v on Pin 2. Also, randomly I would see 3.3v on both pins 1/5. I'm not sure if the fan connector could be causing this because even though the fan is locked in it is loose and I can pull it out and if I push the fan cable a certain way the fan will spin at normal speed or high speed.
I removed U1900 and C1910 and plugged in the charger and R2040 and C1902 started measuring 3.3v but PPVRTC_G3H still shows around 2.7v. I got 0v on Pin 5 of U1900.
I measured in diode mode on C0890 and got 0.54v.
What else could be pulling PPVRTC_G3H down?
Coincidentally Louis has a video of this similar issue posted today.
All of these measurements were done with no external cables plugged into the board.
There was small liquid damage by the U1900 chip and I saw that C1910 looked burned on Pin 1.
The VDD Pin, PPVRTC_G3H and PP3V3_TBTLC measured 3.3v but I still replaced the chip.
When I removed C1910 the pad for Pin1 was gone so I put a new chip on and ran a wire from Pin 1 of U1900 to C1910.
After I finished replacing everything and plugged the charger in I saw I was only getting 2.6v on Pins 1 and 5 of U1900 as well as on C1910/C0890/C0891. R2040 which is no stuff had 3.3v on Pin 1 and 2.6v on Pin 2. Also, randomly I would see 3.3v on both pins 1/5. I'm not sure if the fan connector could be causing this because even though the fan is locked in it is loose and I can pull it out and if I push the fan cable a certain way the fan will spin at normal speed or high speed.
I removed U1900 and C1910 and plugged in the charger and R2040 and C1902 started measuring 3.3v but PPVRTC_G3H still shows around 2.7v. I got 0v on Pin 5 of U1900.
I measured in diode mode on C0890 and got 0.54v.
What else could be pulling PPVRTC_G3H down?
Coincidentally Louis has a video of this similar issue posted today.
All of these measurements were done with no external cables plugged into the board.
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