A2337 M1 Macbook Air No Backlight

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  • DDVL
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    • Sep 2018
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    A2337 M1 Macbook Air No Backlight

    Hello amazing geniuses, boy do i have an exciting machine with me that needs knowledge I don't posses.

    Alright so machine was liquid damaged top case side. The board only seemed to have liquid on the backlight decoupling caps. So shorted to ground. So I removed the caps to find a crater. Still had a short to ground on ppvout_lcdbcklt, so I injected voltage and internal short nearcp601 and cp604. Then proceeded to dig the short out, lots of grinding and cutting later the short is gone. Yay! However, this was shorted lived as still no backlight. Now the confusing stuff.

    I have backlight output essentially 52 v on ppvout_lcdbcklt which to me seems like the lcd panel isnt being told to accept the backlight. The screen in question is fine, tested with another board.

    Also don't have keyboard backlight if that helps.

    I have replaced up800 no change. one thing to note i only get about 19mv on up800 pin 4, while comparing with another machine it gets 0.8v. also the i2c data lines are 5.12v

    Let's solve this mystery together.

    I would have loved to show pictures but my old microscope gave out and the sd card failed with it. I will do my best to provide pictures going forward.

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