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Yes it did John. This is from my first post "A bit of history. Customer spilled ice tea on his keyboard and the only way it would power on was by plugging in the mag charger. I changed the keyboard then put the board into the ultrasonic cleaner, rinsed in alcohol and left to dry out.
Now I only...
Most of the corrosion was near the CPU but it was pretty gunky all over. I've already put through the ultrasonic again to be sure but no change. I've asked my customer to drop over his MS2 charger tomorrow. In the meantime resistance to ground for PM_BATLOW_L = 9.57 Kilo Ohms - reading taken...
I'm using a genuine Apple magsafe 85w charger with a genuine Apple magsafe to magesafe 2 converter. It was working fine with this combination. The problem started after it came out of the ultrasonic. Yes I'm aware of the fan spin delay and also that the CPU should warm up (it doesn't). No...
Yes I know. I was just letting you know that it responds to SMC reset as I thought that would give you a little more to work with. I'll get you those voltages as soon as I can if not tonight (it's 10:30PM in London) then tomorrow. Really appreciate your help. Thanks again. M
I'll get those voltages for you later as I've just rinsed the board out again with alcohol - sorry. No other history than that already mentioned. When I attached the keyboard the board seemed to respond to an SMC reset i.e. charger light went green for a second then back to orange,
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When you say "heated" what do you mean? Did you heat the whole board or just that area? How did you heat? Did you reflow? Thanks in advance as I having the same problem with the same board.
A bit of history. Customer spilled ice tea on his keyboard and the only way it would power on was by plugging in the mag charger. I changed the keyboard then put the board into the ultrasonic cleaner, rinsed in alcohol and left to dry out.
Now I only get green then orange light on the charger...