Re: A2338 M1 Liquid Damage and WiFi dead

Well crud. Looks to be what happened to mine. I also traced it down and found a 500 ohm to ground short to the wifi chip. What a terrible design.

Hello everyone, I have a very interesting issue on this M1 i haven't seen on previous gen intel boards.So i'll give the back story on what happened to this mac. I purchased it damaged from a friend so i knew they didn't open it up. They spilled lemonade on the keyboard and it shut off. When i opened it up, there was surprisingly little liquid actually on the motherboard itself. Most of the damage was located in the LCD/Keyboard backlight area but even so, it didn't look that bad. I cleaned it very well but no components had to be replaced as they all tested fine (just checking for shorts/diode...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello everyone, I've gone a long time without knowing badcaps existed. Not sure how but i'm glad to be here now. I've always performed board level repairs on laptops and other devices as a hobby, but i'm now taking a more serious note and considering offering some services locally and see where it goes.