This audio chipset has been a pain to deal with, most of the time its impossible to find drivers for chinese laptops that have no name/brand, or generic rebranded laptops.
Huawei also started to use it BUT they no longer host drivers on their website since they want you to force their PC manager app that often refuses to install after bios flashing and apparently the generic drivers around wont work on some intel systems and others wont work on amd systems, the generic ones have worked only once and i think i have had this problem on 30+ laptops so far in the last year.

I got a 15-IIL05 that failed to turn on BUT IT DID TRY TO TURN ON and then turned off after 30+- seconds, i disassembled it and found a screw loose inside the case.
With charger it turns on, fan spins but gives no image.
Tested main mosfets no short, tested 3.3v,5v,DRAM, CPU etc and they were present.
Reflashed BIOS, same problem.
Replaced both main mosfets.
Checked main mosfets again and i noticed that they closed once the laptop shut down, so i decided to bypass them and used a bench PSU to check how much power the laptop was drawing while trying to turn on, 20v@3A,...

I have been looking for it and the schematic for a while and i have been noticing it recently started to appear on some of those generic russian forums and websites that resell BIOS, Schematics, etc.
Has it been made public anywhere im not aware of?

I got a Chromebook with dead eMMC, so the logical thing to do would be to replace it.
Its a SDIN8DE4-16G, anything i should know before replacing it with SDIN8DE4-32G?

Is it possible to flash a full firmware using a CH341 to be able to boot into windows through USB? since that would be way cheaper, better and quicker.
Or are there any other ways to run mrchromebox script without booting into ChromeOS?

Re: Chinese hot air and soldering stations



The SuperIO doesn't have a bottom pad but other things i need to change (RT6585B for example) do.
And well shitty tool beats no tool....

What is the consensus? are they useful or trash even in a short term scenario?
Going to buy a hot air station and Yihua and Baku ones look popular in the "budget" range.
I will eventually upgrade to an Atten or Quick.
For example: and
Are some of the models im going to buy, the Yihua one has some reviews that make it sound decent in EEVBlog and other sites also repair guides so i guess i will opt for that.
But they all use the same heat gun that looks like it will melt eventually, and that has often reviews of having "dust" inside them on...

Re: ECS H61H2-MV (REV 1.0) Schematic and boardview needed.

Got boardview....