Recent content by economypilot

okay. I went to town on the hole with a micro carbide bit in the dremel. First it dropped back down to a dead short, which was sad. But under the theory that you can't break it if it's already broke I kept going and now have a reading of 26 ohms. It'll be a neat trick getting one capacitor to...

Hello! I did mean F5200/1 sorry about that. The 6ohm short remains on pad 2 with the fuses removed. I checked all of the coils and they all have readings in ohms that are much higher. The lowest reading was still several hundred ohms. I identified the coils visually -- all the gray squares. I...

Okay - I cleaned up the area shown above. Still had a short on PPBUS_AON. Opposite side of the board had a very obviously blown capacitor (CN479) that I pulled off the board. I think I messed it up by lifting it early and the board was in rough shape (pics attached). Boardview showed that the...

Good Afternoon! I am new at this. My kitty cat spilled a glass of wine on my Macbook. Recently divorced and ex took like 80% of my assets and is still suing me ---- and I need this laptop to defend myself. The 20% I "got" is tied up in my house. Anyway - I have to fix this on my own if I'm...