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    imac 21.5" late 2012 slow from shrapnel

    runs slow after lady cut the stand down and got metal shavings all over the place. i cleaned all the shavings out and didn't see anything wrong per say but i didn't at board that close like under a scope. took me a while to figure out, but ASD gives me CPU proximity TCOp temp sensor error...
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    mbp 2011 17" not turning on

    gets power and charges but no visible activity with power button i'm assuming standard bad gpu, but i've been out of the game so long i can't remember if they would behave this way, my recollection is it would at least turn on right? what rails should i check?
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    macbook 12" keyboard issue

    I have a wonderful 12" macbook which had a bad key. i got a new keyboard from china (first one only the power key seemed to work) this one does fine until i literally screw the bottom case screws on. then it does what the first one they sent me did, power key works but nothing else responds. i...
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    820-3787 not booting

    client brought in a 15" late 2013, powers on but does not finish booting from any drive, os, or even safe mode. so first i tried re-soldering U9300 and changing C9364 330 uf poly-tant cap but the new replacements i had were a little too tall and couldn't properly under heatsink, but i tried :(...
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    820-4924 no boot, was working sporadically before

    customer brought in and said it needed a new keyboard, because it wouldn't turn on reliably which I did and tested it on and off fine 3 times before closing up. this was definitely in the top 3 of must disgusting keyboards, with all types of crap in there. after he took it back it didn't turn...
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    820-2936 ram/reboot beep problem

    had some liquid damage, cleaned and replaced trackpad cable lower ram slot had one spec of corrosion and now seems to work fine I was considering replacing C7525-C7529, on computing HS turns on and everything works but after being on for like 10 minutes and warming up it shorts out and restarts...
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    820-2879 no ac

    get green light but won't power from ac turns on from batt tried replacing ISL already but same behavior U7000 pin 2 = 16.5V pin 27/28 resistance 20 pin 17/18 = 3 ohm Q7085 chgr_agate pin 4 = 15.5V pin 1-3=16.5V all measure ok for resistance R7085 R7086 R7005 R7080 R7081 its Q7085 not...
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    LP154WT1-SJAV to SJA1

    I have some china special LP154WT1-SJAV screens which don't seem to work with anything anyone know if (and where) the firmware chip i can move over from a broken official A1
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    A1465 keyboard fn not working

    I had messed with this before and thought I was done but apparently not (trackpad temp TSOP line bad). Although the keyboard viewer shows every key responding, the fn key doesn't work/register so the fn keys don't do their functions and the keyboard viewer appears different, showing a full size...
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    a1369 (or maybe it 1466) backlight intermittent

    820-3437 had a little liquid spill. i cleaned and replaced C8317 and ran a wire to LVDS pin 3-4, worked fine for a while then sometimes backlight goes out so I did C7796, but now some time later its acting up again. seems more like at cold startup, like it takes some time to warm up. should i...
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    820-2915 not charging/starting

    i think i fixed this once before a year ago but it's back again charger light does turn green but computer won't start, no orange, and no charging i've followed the 16.8V in to Q7030 pin 4 1.7 V pin 5 16.8V pin 1-3 1.3V is Q7030 bad or it is the ISL or i guess i should check the fuse, will...
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    [SOLVED]820-3115 no backlight

    had some liquid damage around thunderbolt and backlight driver cleaned, still image but still no backlight fuse was reading sketchy so replaced that saw a small spark (since i was in the dark) on test power on but still no backlight now PPBUS_S0_LCDBKLT_FUSED reading 11.2V instead of 12v both...
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    mbp retina 2013 ram upgrade

    One of my friends has the first mbp 13" with only 4gb of ram (I didn't believe they even made it until i looked it up). Does anyone know what and where i could get ram chips and stencil for 16gb? also how hard is it to do?
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    [SOLVED]820-2610 lvds

    someone else worked on this and did a horrible job i've tried cleaning up the lvds cuz i really don't want to replace it i've tried each pin with tweezers and they all seem down fine, either that or the traces are starting to come up and wiggle but seem soldered to the pins any idea which pin...
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    820-3476 small liquid damage

    literally a drop on Q7311, cleaned was powering fans on and USB, USB would turn off after maybe 7 seconds and no activity assumed Q7311 shorted dead and no CPU (should have measured) so I replaced Q7311 (donor 820-4924 board), still same behavior i then tried Q7311, Q7310 and U7310 now no fan...
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    [SOLVED] 820-2850 backlight

    had liquid damage, fixed everything else up to this point replaced C9560, C7241, C7282, C7281, L9000, C9010, F9800,C9802 R9808 and R9809 but the last two are reading at ~100k in circuit instead of their proper values PPBUS_S0_LCDBKLT_FUSED 12.6V ok PBUS_S0_LCDBKLT_EN_DIV reading 6.31V at...
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    820-2936 backlight problem

    liquid damage, cleaned and everything looks relatively good except no backlight (image on screen) and probably thunderbolt caps may be shot PPVOUT_SW_LCDBKLT only 12.6V too low BKLT_EN 3.2V ok LCD_BKLT_PWM 0V bad SMC_LID_R 3.4 ok replaced U9701 now LCD_BKLT_PWM 3V but still no backlight...
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    820-3330 green light blinking

    no water damage, runs fine off of batt when you plug in AC the green light blinks on super quick every like 2 seconds R7080 was reading like 2.3k so I replaced but still reading same any ideas before i take board out to check R7085 or replace ISL
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    [SOLVED]820-3435 TSOP error

    had liquid damage, got everything working fine except ASD giving me TSOP trackpad error tried new cable same error tried new socket from donor (did loose 1 pad on board, had to run wire) same any ideas unless i'm doing the socket wrong?
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    Macbook Pro Aluminium sloooow boot

    Have a friend with an older 2008 a1260 who described the problem exactly as below and i have thoroughly tested it to confirm such i ran ASD nothing technically wrong it functions properly but boot up takes forever, like it stalls after loading everything in verbose often times to get it to...
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