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    MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

    Hey guys, I'm trying to repair a 2013 Retina MBP that has some liquid damage.

    This MacBook will turn on and work "normally" but will frequently just go black (but the fans would keep spinning) and will sometimes chime but stay on a black screen. I ran the full diagnostics with ASD 3S155 and everything passed. It will rarely get to the desktop and I can't even get the High Sierra or Sierra installers to finish booting.

    So, I took the board out and checked it over for damage, and found a small amount of corrosion on the back. It looks like something might have splashed in through the fan vent as it's right on the edge of the board. The customer said it stopped working and they left it sit for over a year before bringing it in so it's totally dry.

    I've checked the board view and these capacitors (?) are C7526 and C7536, which are both PPVIN_S5_HS_COMPUTING_ISNS. If I test them I get 12.5v on both of them, not sure what I should get though.

    The rest of the corrosion was mostly on the surface, these were the only things that could have had something under them.

    I feel like I should replace these (or at least pull them up and make sure there's no corrosion underneath them). If I were to replace them, how do I know what to look for? I have several donor boards from older 2008-2011 MacBook Pros I could pull parts off of, but other than trying to find something the same size and shape I can't figure out what these are and what to replace them with! The board view doesn't seem to say what they are. Can anyone point me in the right direction of what to look for as far as pulling parts off another board?

    Thanks!

    Edit: I went ahead and pulled those two caps off the board and they still read 12.5v so I'm thinking they've failed? I guess I just need to know what to put back on there.
    Last edited by gilbertsmith; 09-05-2018, 05:42 PM.

    #2
    Re: MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

    U8900
    OpenBoardView — https://github.com/OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView

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      #3
      Re: MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

      The board looks mint in that area, am I looking for anything in particular there?

      I should mention that since I took those caps off at C7526/C7536 it doesn't turn on at all anymore so I've clearly made it worse...

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        #4
        Re: MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

        Rework the solder joints on U8900.
        OpenBoardView — https://github.com/OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView

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          #5
          Re: MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

          K, done. Still looks clean there, but no change.

          When I pulled those caps up at C7536/C7526 it stopped booting at all. Before that it would chime and attempt to boot before crashing, so that made it worse.

          How can I find out what kind of capacitors those are so I can make sure I'm putting the right thing back there? One was kind of cooked and there's no markings on them so I just pulled something similar looking off an old board but clearly that didn't work

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            #6
            Re: MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

            You need the boardview and schematic . https://mega.nz/#!24BxxJaB!e8PmteRRz...9ITR7bUeJl0qx0

            https://mega.nz/#!LhJhlY5J!p07_Z2jxY...P1vxMDs3CcooHU
            Last edited by SMDFlea; 09-07-2018, 02:34 PM.
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              #7
              Re: MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

              Oh man I feel dumb. I didn't even know about the PDF. It all makes sense now.. Thanks!

              Ok, so those are 10uf 16v caps. I pulled two 10uf 16v caps off a donor board and put them on.

              The closest match I could find on any of my donor boards was 10% caps where the originals were 20%. That just means the new ones have a tighter tolerance, right? So that shouldn't cause a problem?

              I still get no fans though, where as I did before I took the original caps off.. hm
              Last edited by gilbertsmith; 09-07-2018, 04:47 PM.

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                #8
                Re: MacBook Pro 820-3332-A (2013 Retina) liquid damage

                So I got it up and running again but it's back to where I started, so those caps either weren't the problem or not all of the problem.

                What it does now is it'll sometimes boot, and after 2-5 minutes it'll just go black. I'll have to hold the power button to fully turn it off before it will wake up again. I don't believe this is just going to sleep.

                Other times it'll chime and stay at a black screen (no backlight at all). I'll have to power cycle it and it'll start up 'normally' again after a try or two.

                Booting to a macOS installer, I've managed to actually get to the gui of the installer only once.. I got most of a Mojave install done before it went off.

                I also got it to run a full ASD test and everything passed

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