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Have this board which shows no sign of water damage.
Wifi was working fine yesterday.
OS X reports no Wifi hardware installed.
What I have done:
- Tried different Wifi card
- Tried different Wifi/Camera cable
- Measured L3401 which seems fine 0.9 Ohms on each side (0,4V when turned on)
-...
Put some flux under the MCP and reflowed now. Seems I managed to destroy one of the memory slots :). It now passes ASD and boots in to OS X at normal speed, but the fan runs at high speed all the time.
Thank you Duke. Area around U5535 seems fine but does not measure right. I think I'll replace both U5535 and the surrounding capacitors. The resistors seems fine.
Some sign of water damage but not around the MCP or the SMC. ASD fails with MCP T1ND On Die sensor to high and the FAN spins high.
Anything to do with this one or just throw it away?
Well, got this water damaged MacBook Air earlier this week. When I got it It wasn't charging or starting. The connector on the motherboard to the IO board was destroyed, so I replaced connector, flat cable and MagSafe/IO board. The computer started and has worked fine for four days. Today the...
Got this one today. Won't turn on unless I do an SMC reset. Then starts and shuts down two seconds after login screen. I then need to reset the SMC again to get it starting again.
I have already replaced the Poly-Tant capacitor.
Any idea on where to start on this one?