820-3209 green light, no fan spin. ppbus low

the current sensing resisters were toast as well as ISL6259 (short to ground on current sensing pins)
R7005 was also high resistance. replaced all of this and all have the correct values now.

PPbus is on 4.3 volts.
the SMC SCL and SDA lines are both 3.42v

I also replaced Q7080 with no change to PPbus.

I have seen a couple of times that it has gone up to 8.4v but that made no difference. It's not pulsing either
 
would it help if i told you i had a suspicion the battery was bad? can a battery cause ppbus faults like this? such as broken current sensing etc?
 
SOLVED. replaced u7000 again and made sure current sensing circuit has correct resistance. all working.

Moral of the story, just because you replace a part doesn't mean it's not faulty again.

thank you!
 
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