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I tried to locate the short but I can't find which one is. It is somewhere around C8233 where the heat comes from. I tried to use the alcohol method and the thermal camera method but the whole area is heating up. Also the CPU is getting hot by the time because that is on the other side.
I...
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Sign of liquid around U7650
L7670 is .416
L7690 is .001
pin12:0V
pin13:0V
pin21: 0V
pin22: 3.3V
pin23: around 0.5V
pin29: 0V
Edit:
Looks like the pin23 is damaged by corrosion. There is 13.05V on c7650 capacitor.
Also the PP3v3_S5 rail is shorted.
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I would like to ask for assistance in a 820-00840-A board. I'm more like into iPhone repair but I had some success in older Macbook repairs. This is not a customer board, it is for me to entertain myself in this hard covid times...
I think I found a rabbit hole but I would like to ask for...
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Without battery (original 85W adapter):
When the board is powering on PPBUS_G3H is 12.6V
When shuts off itself then 3.6V after a sec it’s starting again to turning on with 12.6V then shuts off and 3.6v.
With battery:
Dropping from 12.8V to around 5V, going back to 12.8V dropping...
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