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Thanks for the info, I will keep that in mind on the next short.

Yea man, I would love to know what went wrong since I tested it before taking it apart. I blame the knock off charger, it caught me off guard since it looked legit. I will inspect them from now on before plugging them in.

After injecting voltage for about 10 mins I noticed that the heat sink for the CPU was hot, I was in disbelief. I removed the heat sink and also removed the edge bonding on the top side to check the caps. Sure enough it was the CPU/PCH.

I was hoping that it was a bent pin but they appear to be fine. I started injecting voltage, at 2 volts I was drawing 1.2 amps, I'm limiting the amps as I go up in voltage but I don't think I should go higher. I saw a video on this same board where Louis finds the short with less than 1 watt of...

Yes with the board is off and out the case. Any suggestions on where to look to find the short on 3V3_S5?

I started measuring the power rails and PP3V3_S5 has a direct short to ground. I also discovered that the power adapter that came with this machine is fake. When I first received the machine I found it very strange that the power adapter looked brand new and the material of the wire was off...

A few weeks ago I decided I will start repairing Macs, I started by buying Macs with cracked glass and fixing them. Thats how I bumped into Louis's channel. Then I couldn't stop watching the component level repairs it felt like an addiction. I've been into technology since I was really young, I...

I see, I didn't know that. In that case the battery was not disabled I'm not sure if I shorted something out. Im getting 8.61 volts on PPBUS_G3H off of F7140.

Yes I had battery isolation pick on there the entire time I was working on it.

After replacing the screen on this 2015 MacBook Retina 12 inch it no longer turns on. It was running fine before. I installed the top half of the MacBook on a known working bottom and it works fine, so we can rule out ribion cables, keyboard and everything else on the top half. If I...

No Title The test failed after a few seconds. I attached a photo of the output. iStat shows PBus 0.00 V I will also like to add that the cpu gets really hot and the fan didn't turn during that test. I couldn't rest my finger on the heat sink for more than 3 seconds.

I have a 820-4924 that was dropped. It chimes, then boots like normal into OS X and it usually takes a few seconds to 5 minutes to do a kernel panic. When it does last a few minutes on, finder keeps quitting and most apps quit as soon as they open. An install of OS X can't be completed on this...