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For a 2013 3437 Macbook Air, if I were to buy the efi/spi rom chip from Mouser or whatnot would it work if I flash the rom with clean ME and serial on to it, or is there something special that Apple does with them? My instinct says there should be no problem, just seeing if anyone else has...
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When you plug in the charger, in OSX it thinks it is at 100%, but when you unplug it, it will go back to whatever it was before. There was liquid damage, U7100 was replaced and a wire was run from pin 18 to r7130 since the line was burnt, and the SMC was reflowed. I'm guessing this...
My fucked up schedule goes from 10:30am till 2:30am, I've really been trying to shift it so that I'm going to bed earlier, like 11pm or 12am would be better I think
Alright, sorry for taking so long, I finally got in a bunch of different donor boards which I needed.
So I started off replacing the ISL6259 as well as C7040 since it didn't look happy, and then replaced Q7035 since it was causing a short to common on CHGR_LGATE
I did test the resistance...
Resistance on PPBUS is around 4ohms, which matches the resistance on the CPUIMVP_PHASE* busses which would lead me to believe that its the MAX15119GTM, but it's not producing any heat. So then I went around with my laser temperature gun, narrowing down with evaporating alcohol to find...