820-3115-B - unable to get rid of short

[JohnB8812]

DO NOT repair TBT for this reason!!! Just live without thunderbolt.....now this might be junk....

 

[Atomrepair]

Ah, damn. Wish I'd known that beforehand. I've removed the TB connection, but I still get an inferno if I hook it up. No time now, gone for the weekend.. Will report back tuesday.. I guess I could drill a hole through the board and see if I can repair whats missing afterwards? heh

 

[JohnB8812]

You can try but yeah if TBT shorts like that all you can do is remove TBT from the board and leave it alone.

 

[2informaticos]

Remove Q3880 and check if stays on.
But you may need to remove all the chips from Thunderbolt area.

 

[Atomrepair]

Removed all the thunderbolt stuff. Board starts up. mac os wont start fully, machine shuts off randomly and still heats up in TB area after lots of digging. Already broke and then repaired some tracesin this sinkhole... SMC has some nasty gunk around (and naturally under it); this is as far as I'm willing to see this through. Suffice to say next time I'm taking TB off, not fixing it.

 

[JohnB8812]

The shutdown issue could be the SMC but yeah agreed