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No Title So i finally got my hands on this shitty SATA cable. I removed the insulation tape with a heat gun and well... it looks like the whole cable is made from pure copper which probably half-breaks the moment apple bends it for the very first time.

isnt KBC supposed to form a voltage for power button? call me stupid, i suggest gcain to reflash the KBC and BIOS as a first measure. there are plenty of boards which behave like a dead ones just because of bios corruption.

it should not drop to zero unless you have 1-2 Amp Constant Current setting. it is also unlikely to have 0.3 ohm short circuit resistance - my MM test probes have 0.4. anyway if you have 0.3 ohms and 5A CC, you have somewhat around 1.4v and 6-7 watts of dissipated energy which should be pretty...

i am still learning, but here are few tips: clean your tip every time before you take solder. i use both copper hair and wet sponge to keep it really clean and shiny. melt the solder, not the wire. If wire does not touch the tip - it does not follow it when you remove your iron. use different...

yup, it s a waste of money so far, however i do not think that it would get any cheaper and that's the only way to get data besides the repair. i use a macbook 2014 PCI-e to SSD adapter ~1-3 times a month and i do not see any reason why i would not need this fancy shitbox when solderedSSD...

well, the time is not come yet. the closest point to a real use case was showing my customer this box and telling him not to buy MBP 2016+. i might be wrong but asm1142 supports uasp since rev 1.1

can confirm it works with common Winbound and MXIC chips, a little slower than tl866. also, it does not have short-circuit check, the software kind of sucks, but it's cheap enough to worth trying.

well afaik not all SSD use hardware encryption, also i have no idea if it is implemented in MAC SSD. chip readers are quite popular with phone data recovery, so i was wondering if it worth giving a shot for SSDs

Hello everyone. i found something pretty cheap and interesting on amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/eMCP-SD-ALL...allsocket+EMMC https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B073372MYY/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&smid=A1O3G3T2BLV2EY&th=1 is there any chance to skip the form-factor nightmare and just buy...

so apple made it actually easier to get data from soldered SSDs with apple official fancy "cable breaks in one bend" crap adapter. bravo apple. :confused: btw, seeing how trivial most of the apple-sata/pci-e adaptors are made, i am considering developing a universal one. does someone know, where...

i have the same one here. any luck with ISL95905 replacement?

Check / replace R7151, R7152, r17150, r7115, q7155, also c7116 for short. The simplest way is to replace charger chip and everything between U7100 and battery.

it depends. as in PCs, most updates are generally patches, you won't find a whole SMC firmware in update - it could have just a region, for example, High Sierra installs APFS support for older machines. I can confirm that High Sierra FIRST install on the older machines does SMC and NVRAM resets...

sorry, gave up without repair, Customer was leaving the country. PP3V3_5 was present, PPBUS was 0v on battery. Customer goes to India, i told him to ping me if they'll fix it :)

this should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pffOJdCQ7kw&t=67s it looks like a part of the rectifier circuit. i would start with the transistor, however, there's no info - do you have a short circuit on your mains? honestly, if you had a short in this area, you would not have any doubt...

was fully dead (customer shorted something on the board, he used to power it on with a SMC_ONOFF for a year(!), and suddenly it stopped working), after replacing u7000(was clearly burned), current sense resistors and boot capacitor. Now I have my g3hot back, but still no charge and no power...

Yup, I've decided to order a new one since working board could be found for just ~100$ on ebay. I'm wondering how many times power issues ending up with SMC death. PC laptops are far more repairable in this sense - when IO chip dies, it is almost always available without donor board lottery and...

Macbook air 2012 A1465, came with sporadical shutdown problem. After 3-5 minutes of high load, the laptop shuts down and then works 20-30 seconds till shutdown unless cooled for a while. Since CPU/GPU were under 60°C, i checked all voltages and some reset signals, on board and found funny slow...

various leads have different melting points. if it is a lead-free board, you need 50-80° more. i usually solder with SnPbCu lead, so i'm tuning it down to keep it from oxidating too fast.