820-2132 won't turn on without SMC bypass

RavetcoFX

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I know, I know, you guys are going to pound me for touching such an old piece of shit, but I've already spent 30+ hours on this, and I'm just itching out of personal curiosity to know what's going on with it. I have Green Light, S5 state, SMC_ONOFF_L, RSMRST_PWRGD, PM_PWRBTN_L, PM_SLP_S4_L, PM_SLP_S5_L and PM_RSMRST_L all in their correct voltages, and I've tried going in with refit and smcflasher in an efi shell, but it won't let me '-reset 1' or flash firmware on, also says it's in U mode not AppCode mode. Should I just conclude that the SMC is fucked and move on with my life? Or am I missing something.

Fun fact, I got a donor board hoping to use the SMC off of that, and it has the exact same issue. FML :confused:
 
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RavetcoFX

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God Dammit, I'm using a 60W, it's worked fine for every other newer machine... do these older macbook SMC's draw more current?
 
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