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You maybe want to get in touch with Colin (dosdude1). He has a video on YT where he did the RAM expansion, and mentioned he had to modify EFI to enable booting.
I bought an A1707 off of ebay (yeah, I know...). Draws 20V, 1-2 mA. Found one of the GPU mosfets to be short, killing the AMD GPU.
Previous owner reported screen was working fine when the macbook turned off, now on another machine I have backlight but no image, the screen is reported in macOS...
I would add some YTers run discord servers nowadays, which (for me) was a good supply source for GPU board files and schematics. And some of them even publish parts of their google drives
I checked these signals / rails:
PPVRTC_G3H
RTC_RESET_L
SRTCRST_L
PCH_INTVRMEN
PCH_DSWVRMEN
PCH_CLK32K_RTCX1 (skipped, my Owon sucks at frequencies)
PP3V3_S5
PM_DSW_PWRGD
PP3V3_SUS
PM_BATLOW_L
PM_RSMRST_L
PM_PWRBTN_L
Next on my list was this:
SMC_ADAPTER_EN = 3.42V
PM_DSW_PWRGD = 3.42V...
Just to be completely sure this is a no-fix:
Board won't power on, but takes ~ .17 A from the bench supply.
PPBUS_G3H = 8.58v, PP3V42_G3H = 3.42V
PM_SLP_S4L is low, so I followed the guide from OBData, all logic signals are as they should be.
The I checked all rails from S5 state (also from...