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Board hangs at 20V 0.4A after a few seconds indefinitely, or 0.5A when installed in the chassis with only the battery disconnected. All major power rails are present, trackpad clicks, no light on caps lock, no response on display. No signs of liquid damage.
I'm often unsure where to start...
820-01700-05 light liquid damage, concentrated on U9580, U9500, U3100, and U3200.
Reflowed U3100, U3200.
Reballed U9580, U9500.
Verified 20V on all 4 USB-C ports.
Current steadily climbs until peaking at 0.31A 20V before suddenly dropping off to 0.01-0.03A 20V, and remains steady there...
820-01949-A board came in with liquid damage concentrated around U3100_W and _R. After cleaning up the area, freshening resistors, lifting and cleaning everything affected, etc. I had 3X ports at 5V 0.25A, and one looping with the same consumption, controlled by U3100_R. Replaced U3100_R to no...
I've got an 820-01958-A with liquid damage around Q7065 and other parts of the board, but not under the cpu heatsink, that after addressing visibly damaged regions requests 20V and consumes about 70mA, but makes an audible clicking noise and does not power on. All major power rails are present...
I've got a 820-4924-A with trackpad click, but no trackpad movement, keyboard response, or caps lock light. The power button functions and can trigger SMC bypass mode, which does not help the situation, but the keyboard is otherwise unresponsive to startup combinations and the device will not...
It's not too often I see a device where all of the USB-C ports pull basically zero current (Starts at 0.01A and drops to 0.0A) with no looping or other activity, but that's the case on this 820-01700-05. No liquid damage or issues spotted with a visual inspection, pretty through check for shorts...
820-00165-A with no signs of damage. Supposedly suddenly died during an SSD upgrade and subsequent software reinstallation at another shop. When the display is plugged in, the device rapidly boot loops with a chime every 2-3 seconds during which the internal display is blank with backlight, SMC...