Found the short on the board, it is the APL 1098 chip. Chip is shorted, fixed all shorts and now power and found the short at the chip (spiking to around 150 degrees) big chip non the less, I do have a good donor board with a good chip, my question is what does this chip do? Is it serialized to the board if I replace it will it not turn on even if its a good chip. Please let me know. We are fixing a computer for data recovery and we found the main issue (this chip has the apple logo)
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So do you believe these chips are serialized to the board? Would a donor board solve this issue, this seems to be a worry about investing into this chip. I know you cannot buy these chips on the market only way to get one is to buy an activation locked board that is useless basically but it works and that is how we verify the chip is good, however these chips are so damn fragile :/sigpic
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This is a guide that I am writing for helping others to replace their MEC1503 EC chip if it breaks (or to get around an inconvenient prompt to the BIOS). This forum has been extremely helpful to me so I would like to contribute to help others. I will tell you right now that this task is very difficult to do. You MUST have experience and tools to do precision micro-soldering, BGA reballing, trace repair, and general laptop repair skills.
There are some specialty tools needed to do this task. The replacement MEC1503 chips can be acquired from Aliexpress. Do not buy the bare chips as... -
Hi everyone,
I'm working on a MacBook Air 2020 (A2337, board 820-02016) and running into a strange USB-C issue. I've gone through quite a bit of testing and part replacement, but I'm stuck — hoping someone here can shed some light.
🛠 Original Issue
The machine initially wouldn't negotiate 20V over USB-C — stuck at 5V.
Diagnosis showed PP1V5_UPC0_LDO_CORE shorted to ground.
I replaced U3100 (UF400) using a donor board (A2179), and the machine powers on fine now.
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When replacing the screen of this MacBook model, the DP855A chip must be moved from the existing screen for the screen to operate properly.
However, when I removed the DP855A chip from the existing screen, I must have done something wrong and the chip broke.
Testing the chip pins with a multimeter revealed a short circuit inside the chip.
Is it impossible to repair this? I couldn't find a programmer for this chip, nor any eeprom programmer software....04-19-2024, 08:51 PM -
As the title states, got one CD3215 chip being a complete butthole to me. All readings on the other 3 chips read as follows
5.16V .47amp
5.16V .47amp
5.16V .47amp
5.16V .04amp (this guy is the issue) (U3200)
So I went ahead and replaced the chip, (actually 3 times with 3 new CD3215 chips) all same issue, at first it wasn't reading at all then it finally started reading. I can rest assured is it not the CD3215 chip now but something else is causing this port to not fully read (god I wish the board would just turn on so we can just recover the data)
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Common SPI bios chip programming Questions and Answers
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Q: I have a bios request,i can`t post my backup as i can`t read from the chip.
A: If you can`t read from it how do you expect to write to it ?.
Q: Why is my bios chip unreadable ?.
A: The programmer is faulty or has a worn or broken zif socket.
The USB cable is frayed,connector pins worn or some other physical damage.
Not enough amperage or voltage to power the programmer properly.
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