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OK that was stupid.
I had it plugged in facing front.
OK it reads it now.
I can watch the videos on the CMI Zapper website.
I think I need to read and store a backup into the Medusa first.
Do you have the list of what the dip switches do.
Again...I am waiting for the manual to be emailed to...
OK just got my hands on a Medusa 2.
This thing took exactly 1 month to get here from Germany with the current environment.
I have hooked it up.
No chip found (H)
This is a 820-00165 with a WINBOND chip so I think I have to Set the QE bit in case of a Winbond ROM chip
per the website.
I...
OK heatpipe replaced
I thought it fixed it
CPU temps 48-60, idle
then.....
Plugged in charger and battery.
SSD in place. I was planning on installing a fresh copy of Catalina.
Green light on charger, then orange which is good.
Then 3 minutes later, charger light goes out. If I plug in and...
how would the heatpipe/CPU heatsink be broken? Just asking for my own understanding.
Wouldn't that be clearly visible like a crack etc?
Any chance this is the BIOS?
OK
I decided to swap out the dc in board and the flex cable because of all the weird charger behavior,
Progress.
The machine will now boot to the OS with an external drive but the cpu heat pipe is super hot (i mean burn your finger hot).
20 seconds after booting the CPU must get too hot...
It was a steady 0V.
Now its 0.75V, 5 minutes ago its was 2.5V
When the fan starts spinning, I get a 3.36V.
I am going to leave the board plugged in and see what happens.
Sorry for the confusion.
I honestly have no idea why it does that.
I unplugged the charger from the wall, replugged it in...
PP3V3_S4:
3V3_S4_FET_R: 0.75V-2.5V <----- Should be 3.3V but dips as low as 0.75 V, wait 5 minutes, 2.5V, then 0.75V again.
PP3V3_S5: 3.36V
But my reading earlier was not incorrect.
I measured it multiple times and PP3V3_S4/3V3_S4_FET_R was 0 V
Now it is not. I can't explain it.
No fan spin.
OK new flex cable and DC in board.
Connected battery.
Boots to OS.
The 128C battery reading is gone.
but
Fan still at 6100 RPM-6300RPM
Machine seems a bit sluggish
The PECI SA sensor seems to flip between 0C and 38 C.
Next I will try to use a new trackpad. I used a known working trackpad.
Water spill:
Corrosion at:
C7184
Q7180
C7095
Q7706
F7700 (but PPBUS_G3H is normal at 8.57V)
Q7130
C7136
PPBUS_G3H: 8.58
PP5V_S4RS3: 0 V
U7501:
4: 0 V (EN MISSING)
21: 3.42
Fan was briefly spinning, stopped
Going to check U1900, U1950
I just got through watching the video that Louis posted regarding the design of new MacBook Airs. How often does it occur that a liquid spill ends up shorting out the data and backlight powerlines. Louis talked about descending potentially high voltage to the CPU. In the video the lines carrying...
Anyone know what adhesive tape Apple uses to secure the right and left speakers to the frame in MacBook Airs 2013-2017 like the A1466?
Is it the Tesa 61395 Tape?
I don't have another IO flex cable and the one I have is red on the water damage indicator
I'm going to get another one.
Yes the fan was running high without the battery connected.