C(series) = 1/(1/c1 + 1/c2) => 1/( 1/10 + 1/10 ) => 1/ (1/5 ) => 5uF, but yes, the voltage rating adds up. Hope I didn't come across as too much of a jerk there.
A lot of inexperienced people before sold state circuitry just wired the new capacitor in parallel with a the faulty one so you can imagine how that worked out.
Your soldering technique isn't as good as Northridge's but your technical knowledge + analytical skills are way above of what I have seen from him. Also your tools are very dedicated to specific problems. I'm rlly thankful to learn from giants like you on youtube. Please keep up the good work.
Northridge fix doesn't know much at all. He gets lucky but also destroys components. And his 'service' isn't that good either. My guess is a lot of his reviews are fake.
@@jaym5938 he has a high put through rate he is trying to reach, he can't see it tot the end for every board he tried working on. But he doesn't push that fact aside. And I also don't think he has too. It's definitely beneficial and understandable as a businessman. He is a expert when it comes to hands on soldering and so on. But yes, sometimes his diagnostics skills are lacking.
Slight correction: if you put 2 10 uf caps in series, you do indeed double the voltage but the effective capcitance is 1/2 or in this case it would be 5 uf.
Threw away a Dell Latitude PII-266 some years ago that wouldn't start (no power whatsoever). After watching your videos, I bet it was as simple as a capacitor. Although having far too many computers, I will never forgive myself 😝
Watched this for 5 mins and subscribed. You clearly know how to repair system boards on laptops so I'm adding you to my list. (It's a good list..not a bad one).😁 Edit: I liked your analysis of the dodgy battery. I have the same battery analyser you have. I need more time to build a database for what it can test.
You need a pair of hot tweezers , also a little flux and low melt solder greatly helps in removing components. All in all great job though , I’m replacing a battery in the same Mac book this week and it’s nice to see how things can go sideways .
You can also use two soldering irons, one each end, or low temperature solder e.g. Chipquik. There is a TH-cam channel called Mr. Solderfix who shows his incredible SMD rework skills.
Tip: Get a bend pointing tip for your iron and learn to use it, so you won't spin boards around. You can use bending tip to reach to all angles to components.
I had a motorcycle that "blew" a fuse like that. I was going crazy for a while trying to figure out what was going on. Things were getting voltage and the fuse looked OK and a quick continuity test beeped. Finally after seeing that the ignition module acting weird I checked the resistance on the fuse and just like this, it had resistance. So there wasn't enough current to turn things on. Something I always check now even if a fuse looks good. I didn't know they could do that either but it makes sense if you think about it because the bridge inside the fuse can burn just enough to increase the resistance to where it doesn't burn all the way through and disconnect.
After going though the work to connect the NLBA1 to the battery, you were about 2 clicks away from reactiving the BMS and having a good chance to end up with a working battery. Of course some controlled charge-/discharge cycles would have been recommended, but it would have been worth a try instead of throwing away a battery after just 2(!!) cycles.
The vast majority of batteries in laptops are heavily used, and not worth saving. This is an uncommon exception, and it's not worth paying the unlock licence to save one battery. I do agree that this batt was a textbook candidate for unlocking, but it's a very rare exception in my experience.
@@Adamant_IT Oh, sorry, that was a mistake on my part then. I assumed your review unit of the NLBA1 would include the reset-license. But now that I thinkg about it, it makes sense, that it is not included, at least not for an unlimited amount of time.
I like the video so much. Very educational. Thank you for showing your ups and downs during the work without editing, we learn a lot from watching this. I don't like videos of supermen! Not sure if the change of the capacitor at the beginning were needed? Keep bringing these videos our way :)
I'm really not sure. I wasn't able to open it to find out. We wanted to replace these with authentic charger cables. Not sure how it tricks it, but it's quite helpful. Was tired of being told there isn't enough power to turn on the device. This eliminates that issue, and even starts the USB MacBooks with the battery disconnected. If you find out any more info, please let me know. Love the videos.
You could have also used this tool. It enables you to disconnect the battery and still be able to start the MacBook with charger. BY-3200 Mac Power Cable Start Cable Tool
Thank you for the great effort to deliver the information to your valued followers. I would like to know where I can get the computer circuit schematics, thanks again.
2 x 10uF caps in series would give you 5uF!! Also all that scrubbing from side to side with the soldering iron tip is a very bad idea IMHO. You run a very high risk of detaching the pad by overheating in combination with mechanical force.
I've never seen a fuse go high resistance like that. Not that I have much experience with SMD ones, might be something to do with how they're constructed
I binged maybe 50 of your vids in the last days. Very informative and well made! What I did not find was any dead Thinkpad. I just got a refurbished P53, and the internals look bullet proof. My old W520 runs partly 24/7 for months, no problem whatsoever in 11 years. Any idea if there is a quality difference between Apple, consumer devices and business notebooks regarding electronics?
They've all got their disadvantages sadly... Personally I'm a Dell Latitude fanboy, I think they're a great compromise of build/cost/features, but most laptops are all very similar in reparability depending on what time period you look at. But yea I don't have any strong feelings about any brand/series that I think it without fault. Tbh I generally feel like I just don't like laptops full stop. The Framework might be the first one I care about, but we need more than one company making modular laptops like that for it to really be relevant / offer decent choice.
@@Adamant_IT I'll try my first more complicated repair in sone weeks. A Ideapad 330s does not charge, but runs from batteries. No short, but a MOSFET with a hole in it. Unable to find it using the label, but found schematics 2 days ago, so I was able to order that little thing.. We'll see what I can do with hot air 😁
Could we just take a moment and acknowledge, that 0805 capacitors with 22uF and 25V should not exist? Whether it's an old Macbook, a new Macbook, a Lenovo thinkpad, a Lenovo dockingstation, an Dell Laptop - these things are becoming a running gag and not a very good one at that. Apparently they can be manufatured with that kind of spec, but with 0 tolerance and thus only with a very low reliability.
@@MattyEngland I don't necessarily agree to that in this case. On this board as well as on most other boards I have seen these capacitors on, there would have been enough space to place 2 10 µF caps instead. There problem here seems to be, that at least one capacitor manufacturer claims to be able to produce 22 µF capacitors and of course, OEMs like Apple and others go for them, because it reduces the BOM. But apparently, it is just not possible to produce a 22 µF in such a small case, that is reliable. Either the capacitor manufacturer needs to stop producing and selling these or the OEMs need to stop using them, even though they exist and "work" in theory.
@@Vasilis_Parlamentas thanks. I knew about this one but I asked in UK because a friend of mine lives there and will come and visit me here. So he made an order and will get it at the end of the month.
Hi. Your video is so awesome 😎. My mainboard is dead and it show the same thing of around 20v but no current. My question is if you could fix the mainboard, and how could i send you for fixing? And, how much? I trust you😊. Tks
after replacing the capacitor, if you would have tried to turn on the PC connected with the adapter, it would have turned on? Then you replaced the battery just because it didnt turn on with the battery, as it locked itself?
With a subscription licence add-on, the NLBA can do a lot of unlocking - it's just not a feature I'm super into because most of the time if a battery is locked, it's probably knackered. There are some exceptions, like this battery, which if unlocked would be right as rain - but also this battery was really naff and I wouldn't advise using it anyway.
Not sure if brexit made a difference for UK folks but I'm wondering if there is still an easy way to get some leaded solder in mainland europe, cause I know the EU pretty much banned lead and with that in mind I kind of want to get a lifetime supply of leaded solder while I still can
I'd echo your sentiments on NinjaBatt. Avoided the same Macbook Batt because of reviews though and glad I did now! Also never had any comeback on GreenCell but they seem to come from Poland sometimes and delivery can be a week or so rather than the advertised delivery period.
I've watched lots of vid's you've done and enjoyed them. I have a question and I know it's unrelated to this vid but wondered if you've encountered an Asus laptop 30 minutes timer sudden death issue, well not death, just that it's like the battery or mains ceased to exist yet it boots up again by pressing the power button for another 30 minutes and on the dot same thing happens. I've changed ram, CPU, checked the bios battery/charger you name it. I even re-flashed bios. I've heard something about Intel's ME firmware causing this issue, I have an external USB reader for Bios chip though I have to solder it on for accurate read/write. The laptop works perfectly for 30 minutes laptop in question is Asus x401a i3, I know it's old but I'm not going to throw away a perfectly functional laptop. Any pointers please?
Hello !!!.. One question, I'm fixing a MacBookPro A1707 that buy on ebay heeh.. the thing is that already detected several capacitor dead, and then the laptop start to consume some current. The thing is that after some seconds or minutes, the same go again to "dead state" , 20v - 0 current...... What do you recommend to check?... So far I check on the power aliases for the PBUS rails and I have 12v on all of them, but when checking on IMVP Rails, are at 0v... Is this normal if the CPU has not fully started?.. I'm starting to think in a faulty battery , what do you think recommend to check? Thanks for any suggestion you could provide! Regards,
I'm lazy and use eBay, but registering a business account with a supplier like RS Components or Farnell will get you better quality stuff at reasonable costs.
Unlocking a battery doesn't stop it from being a crap battery. Some batteries are worth saving, but most of them aren't. They've locked up because they're depleted, or they were bad to begin with. I do have an NLBA, and I do use it for battery recovery, but I'm not spending the money on an unlocking licence to save a cheap low quality batt.
That is possible, some repairs are unviable, maybe possible but too complex and risky to attempt for the money you can charge for them or require equipment they don't have (reballing a CPU often requires some equipment or serious skill to do without) have you compared your estimates to replacing the logic board all toghether? That is an easy swap for anyone willing to follow directions. Keep in mind the 2016 and 2017 A1706 have removable SSDs, so you only need the logic board. Look at the prices of buying a logic board vs. buying a whole computer with a cracked screen or bad keyboard as well.
www.cnlselectronics.co.uk/product-category/amtech/ The real stuff smells nice, which is kind of a problem. The fake stuff smells bad so you don't want to inhale it 😅
I use Wera Kraftform as my main screwdrivers (T3,T5,T6,T8, PH00, PH0, PH1) and a Sequre SQ-ES126 Electric Screwdriver for zapping out stuff quickly, and this kit also has the P5 bit for MacBook chassis screws.
15:19 That blade soldering tip can actually reach both side of a simple SMD passive at once if you rest it on the side of the SMD and add a lot of solder, ie, it can desolder both sides at once. It saves melting parts close by.
Ordered NinjaBatt brand before. IME, worked OK for first few months then capacity nosedives. Not the worst but not recommended either. Quality cells actually cost $ to manf, whooda thunk.?
Non related to this video but has to do with Video 143 At mark 32:46 in the video what is the the thing called you are plugging the power and rest buttons called to be plugged in the motherboard?
hi, i love your videos, really helps a lot. maybe you would be so kind to assist me. i have a bricked gigabyte p17 v3 with the wrong bios and i am trying to reprogram it with a ch341a. now i followed your steps and advice as close as possible. my problem is that i cannot find a bios bin file for the chip (gd25b64csig) or i am just too ignorant. can you please assist me.
This one is tricky... You can download the BIOS from the gigabyte website as an exe, and then open it in 7zip. This contains "BOOT.img" which can also be opened in 7zip, which contains "OutImage.bin". That's the clean BIOS file. If you flash that and the laptop starts, get it into windows, and then run the BIOS update again, to make sure the EC also gets updated.
@@Adamant_IT thanks a lot, worked splendidly. laptop up and running again. so thankful that there are people outhere with proper advice and knowledge willing to share. have a great day.
About the fuse résistance : are you sure 80 is the résistance or the fuse or is it for exemple 30 to the ground from one side plus 50 to the ground from the other side ? What do you think ?
👍 I try to aim for 30mins, but I'll let the timer get up to 45mins before I really start slashing out sections. Past 45mins is when I think the content starts to get less accessible because there's too much in one video, or the video is just too slow.
C(series) = 1/(1/c1 + 1/c2) => 1/( 1/10 + 1/10 ) => 1/ (1/5 ) => 5uF, but yes, the voltage rating adds up.
Hope I didn't come across as too much of a jerk there.
Oh fair, I thought it basically worked the same way as with a battery where it's voltage in series, capacity in parallel.
A lot of inexperienced people before sold state circuitry just wired the new capacitor in parallel with a the faulty one so you can imagine how that worked out.
No comment Professor HiBrow :) Gotta love a good EE formula tho
@@MrPnew1 you shouldn't even be commenting, well past your lockdown hour at the asylum.
Lovely cat!
Your soldering technique isn't as good as Northridge's but your technical knowledge + analytical skills are way above of what I have seen from him. Also your tools are very dedicated to specific problems. I'm rlly thankful to learn from giants like you on youtube. Please keep up the good work.
Northridge fix doesn't know much at all. He gets lucky but also destroys components. And his 'service' isn't that good either. My guess is a lot of his reviews are fake.
@@jaym5938 he has a high put through rate he is trying to reach, he can't see it tot the end for every board he tried working on. But he doesn't push that fact aside. And I also don't think he has too.
It's definitely beneficial and understandable as a businessman.
He is a expert when it comes to hands on soldering and so on.
But yes, sometimes his diagnostics skills are lacking.
NF is the best I have ever seen, but I enjoy this channel too. @@jaym5938
Slight correction: if you put 2 10 uf caps in series, you do indeed double the voltage but the effective capcitance is 1/2 or in this case it would be 5 uf.
@@nicmate2543 Watt???
@@MrPnew1 lol.
What if I want to not increase voltage but mah ? IE i want the led to stay on for 2 minutes instead of 1 when pulling the charger from outlet?
Well done Graham. Things are never as simple as they seem. Great piece of troubleshooting.
I'm surprised you didn't check the board as running on its own after the capacitor change. in any case, I'm really enjoying your videos. More please.
These are always informative and frankly entertaining, love these videos
"Behold my madness" - love it
Sir your accent is very clear easily understandable.
always you make Very detailed video 👌👌👌👌
I learn so many things from your videos.
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Threw away a Dell Latitude PII-266 some years ago that wouldn't start (no power whatsoever). After watching your videos, I bet it was as simple as a capacitor. Although having far too many computers, I will never forgive myself 😝
Watched this for 5 mins and subscribed. You clearly know how to repair system boards on laptops so I'm adding you to my list. (It's a good list..not a bad one).😁 Edit: I liked your analysis of the dodgy battery. I have the same battery analyser you have. I need more time to build a database for what it can test.
You need a pair of hot tweezers , also a little flux and low melt solder greatly helps in removing components. All in all great job though , I’m replacing a battery in the same Mac book this week and it’s nice to see how things can go sideways .
You can also use two soldering irons, one each end, or low temperature solder e.g. Chipquik. There is a TH-cam channel called Mr. Solderfix who shows his incredible SMD rework skills.
Tip:
Get a bend pointing tip for your iron and learn to use it, so you won't spin boards around. You can use bending tip to reach to all angles to components.
True, you miss.Spoke about the capacitors and series
One more Thing :), great material thank you for your job.
You could set up an Amazon list so people can buy you stuff like the tweezers.
Hey spotted my 3d printed case for the bios programmer again glad your still using it 😊
Great video dude!
Keep up the good work and thank you for the tutorial. Learning so much from your channel.
Great battery tool like to see more of it, to expensive to buy as hobby fixer.
I used iFixIt recently to replace a battery in my early 2013 Macbook Pro 15in. Seems good so far after about a month of use. From the US.
NinjaBatt Caution reads "Do not dispose of fire, but keep the battery away from fire.", sounds like babysitting siblings.
Dont be afraid to use more flux than you think you need. It will make your life, and soldering much easier.
I had a motorcycle that "blew" a fuse like that. I was going crazy for a while trying to figure out what was going on. Things were getting voltage and the fuse looked OK and a quick continuity test beeped. Finally after seeing that the ignition module acting weird I checked the resistance on the fuse and just like this, it had resistance. So there wasn't enough current to turn things on. Something I always check now even if a fuse looks good. I didn't know they could do that either but it makes sense if you think about it because the bridge inside the fuse can burn just enough to increase the resistance to where it doesn't burn all the way through and disconnect.
I'm no Mac guy but I know what PP Bus G3H is, Louis Rossman's arch enemy.
After going though the work to connect the NLBA1 to the battery, you were about 2 clicks away from reactiving the BMS and having a good chance to end up with a working battery. Of course some controlled charge-/discharge cycles would have been recommended, but it would have been worth a try instead of throwing away a battery after just 2(!!) cycles.
The vast majority of batteries in laptops are heavily used, and not worth saving. This is an uncommon exception, and it's not worth paying the unlock licence to save one battery. I do agree that this batt was a textbook candidate for unlocking, but it's a very rare exception in my experience.
@@Adamant_IT Oh, sorry, that was a mistake on my part then. I assumed your review unit of the NLBA1 would include the reset-license. But now that I thinkg about it, it makes sense, that it is not included, at least not for an unlimited amount of time.
I like the video so much. Very educational. Thank you for showing your ups and downs during the work without editing, we learn a lot from watching this. I don't like videos of supermen! Not sure if the change of the capacitor at the beginning were needed? Keep bringing these videos our way :)
Nice work as always Graham ! But please, no spoiler in the thumbnail :D For us it's like watching a movie with a plot, we don't want any spoiler :p
i have used a lot of egoway batteries bought of ebay uk. they worked great.
I'm really not sure. I wasn't able to open it to find out. We wanted to replace these with authentic charger cables. Not sure how it tricks it, but it's quite helpful. Was tired of being told there isn't enough power to turn on the device. This eliminates that issue, and even starts the USB MacBooks with the battery disconnected. If you find out any more info, please let me know. Love the videos.
Great videos as always. Thanks for sharing ur works
Take this UNHAPPY Capacitor off the board! He looks GUILTY as heck!
Your haircut looks good
Two 10mfd capacitors in series results in 5mfd.
You could have also used this tool. It enables you to disconnect the battery and still be able to start the MacBook with charger.
BY-3200 Mac Power Cable Start Cable Tool
This looks like just a bench power supply charger... How does this device bypass the battery requirement? 🤔
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the great effort to deliver the information to your valued followers. I would like to know where I can get the computer circuit schematics, thanks again.
I’ll try find my brand of MacBook battery,, it was brilliant. Work brought it so I’ll find where it was
I'm wondering if the original battery was swapped as a first try and then the job passed on to you.
The new mouse pad is not ready for serious work until you burn the first of many holes in it.
2 x 10uF caps in series would give you 5uF!! Also all that scrubbing from side to side with the soldering iron tip is a very bad idea IMHO. You run a very high risk of detaching the pad by overheating in combination with mechanical force.
Yes it's generally not recommended. But the proof is in the pudding, the man pulled it off fine.
I've never seen a fuse go high resistance like that. Not that I have much experience with SMD ones, might be something to do with how they're constructed
I had that happen in a high end electric toothbrush. Shorted the fuse, no more problems.
I binged maybe 50 of your vids in the last days. Very informative and well made! What I did not find was any dead Thinkpad. I just got a refurbished P53, and the internals look bullet proof. My old W520 runs partly 24/7 for months, no problem whatsoever in 11 years. Any idea if there is a quality difference between Apple, consumer devices and business notebooks regarding electronics?
They've all got their disadvantages sadly... Personally I'm a Dell Latitude fanboy, I think they're a great compromise of build/cost/features, but most laptops are all very similar in reparability depending on what time period you look at.
But yea I don't have any strong feelings about any brand/series that I think it without fault. Tbh I generally feel like I just don't like laptops full stop. The Framework might be the first one I care about, but we need more than one company making modular laptops like that for it to really be relevant / offer decent choice.
@@Adamant_IT I'll try my first more complicated repair in sone weeks. A Ideapad 330s does not charge, but runs from batteries. No short, but a MOSFET with a hole in it. Unable to find it using the label, but found schematics 2 days ago, so I was able to order that little thing.. We'll see what I can do with hot air 😁
Could we just take a moment and acknowledge, that 0805 capacitors with 22uF and 25V should not exist? Whether it's an old Macbook, a new Macbook, a Lenovo thinkpad, a Lenovo dockingstation, an Dell Laptop - these things are becoming a running gag and not a very good one at that. Apparently they can be manufatured with that kind of spec, but with 0 tolerance and thus only with a very low reliability.
Yep, it's the price paid for people wanting ever smaller devices, unreliability.
@@MattyEngland I don't necessarily agree to that in this case. On this board as well as on most other boards I have seen these capacitors on, there would have been enough space to place 2 10 µF caps instead. There problem here seems to be, that at least one capacitor manufacturer claims to be able to produce 22 µF capacitors and of course, OEMs like Apple and others go for them, because it reduces the BOM. But apparently, it is just not possible to produce a 22 µF in such a small case, that is reliable. Either the capacitor manufacturer needs to stop producing and selling these or the OEMs need to stop using them, even though they exist and "work" in theory.
Is the client using an original charger? It's all very fishy, this laptop has gone through 3 batteries...
Can u repair a ASUs locked bios it’s all greyed out if so how do I contact u
Please provide the link to buy flux in UK.
www.cnlselectronics.co.uk/product-category/amtech/
Also look here:
northridgefix.com/product/amtech-nc-559-v2-tf-flux-10ml-syringe-plunger-2-needle-sizes/
@@Vasilis_Parlamentas thanks. I knew about this one but I asked in UK because a friend of mine lives there and will come and visit me here. So he made an order and will get it at the end of the month.
Hi. Your video is so awesome 😎. My mainboard is dead and it show the same thing of around 20v but no current. My question is if you could fix the mainboard, and how could i send you for fixing? And, how much? I trust you😊. Tks
where can I check if the battery is slowly charging on a macbook A1502? Cant find any mosfet
after replacing the capacitor, if you would have tried to turn on the PC connected with the adapter, it would have turned on? Then you replaced the battery just because it didnt turn on with the battery, as it locked itself?
It would be great if you can make video regarding battery unlocking. I’m not sure how capable that device is for unlocking.
With a subscription licence add-on, the NLBA can do a lot of unlocking - it's just not a feature I'm super into because most of the time if a battery is locked, it's probably knackered. There are some exceptions, like this battery, which if unlocked would be right as rain - but also this battery was really naff and I wouldn't advise using it anyway.
Not sure if brexit made a difference for UK folks but I'm wondering if there is still an easy way to get some leaded solder in mainland europe, cause I know the EU pretty much banned lead and with that in mind I kind of want to get a lifetime supply of leaded solder while I still can
I'd echo your sentiments on NinjaBatt. Avoided the same Macbook Batt because of reviews though and glad I did now!
Also never had any comeback on GreenCell but they seem to come from Poland sometimes and delivery can be a week or so rather than the advertised delivery period.
I've had a duff GreenCell before, so they're not my first choice, but they are my second if NinjaBatt don't have anything.
@@Adamant_IT I highly recommend the huarigor packs from replacebase. expensive but very reliable and high capacity
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I've watched lots of vid's you've done and enjoyed them. I have a question and I know it's unrelated to this vid but wondered if you've encountered an Asus laptop 30 minutes timer sudden death issue, well not death, just that it's like the battery or mains ceased to exist yet it boots up again by pressing the power button for another 30 minutes and on the dot same thing happens. I've changed ram, CPU, checked the bios battery/charger you name it. I even re-flashed bios. I've heard something about Intel's ME firmware causing this issue, I have an external USB reader for Bios chip though I have to solder it on for accurate read/write. The laptop works perfectly for 30 minutes laptop in question is Asus x401a i3, I know it's old but I'm not going to throw away a perfectly functional laptop. Any pointers please?
Hello !!!.. One question, I'm fixing a MacBookPro A1707 that buy on ebay heeh.. the thing is that already detected several capacitor dead, and then the laptop start to consume some current. The thing is that after some seconds or minutes, the same go again to "dead state" , 20v - 0 current...... What do you recommend to check?... So far I check on the power aliases for the PBUS rails and I have 12v on all of them, but when checking on IMVP Rails, are at 0v... Is this normal if the CPU has not fully started?.. I'm starting to think in a faulty battery , what do you think recommend to check?
Thanks for any suggestion you could provide!
Regards,
What is the name of the solder that you used?
Hello Interwebs
Very helpful video bro..can you plz twll me which boardview software you used here?
This is FlexBV, by Paul Daniels. OpenBoardView is a free alternative, but not as powerful.
@@Adamant_IT Thanks a lot. You already have a new subscriber. Sincere greetings from Mexico.
What make is that capacitor?
I learnt another lesson, where do you usually get your capacitors and supplies? Thanks
I'm lazy and use eBay, but registering a business account with a supplier like RS Components or Farnell will get you better quality stuff at reasonable costs.
Why didn't you unlock the battery it's only has 4 cycle count
Didn't you see sorin how he use the battery analyzer tool
Unlocking a battery doesn't stop it from being a crap battery. Some batteries are worth saving, but most of them aren't. They've locked up because they're depleted, or they were bad to begin with.
I do have an NLBA, and I do use it for battery recovery, but I'm not spending the money on an unlocking licence to save a cheap low quality batt.
@@Adamant_IT
I don't think 4 cycle is a low quality battery
When I sent my MBP A1706 to a place to be fixed they said it’s shorted through CPU. I refuse to believe them. They couldn’t fix it, It’s still dead ☹️
That is possible, some repairs are unviable, maybe possible but too complex and risky to attempt for the money you can charge for them or require equipment they don't have (reballing a CPU often requires some equipment or serious skill to do without) have you compared your estimates to replacing the logic board all toghether? That is an easy swap for anyone willing to follow directions. Keep in mind the 2016 and 2017 A1706 have removable SSDs, so you only need the logic board. Look at the prices of buying a logic board vs. buying a whole computer with a cracked screen or bad keyboard as well.
Where did you get your UK Amtech flux from? i'm still recovering from the smell of the fake stuff i got from ebay :(
www.cnlselectronics.co.uk/product-category/amtech/
The real stuff smells nice, which is kind of a problem. The fake stuff smells bad so you don't want to inhale it 😅
Which screw driver is best for opening any MacBook and which brand screw driver do you use
I use Wera Kraftform as my main screwdrivers (T3,T5,T6,T8, PH00, PH0, PH1) and a Sequre SQ-ES126 Electric Screwdriver for zapping out stuff quickly, and this kit also has the P5 bit for MacBook chassis screws.
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OEM Genuine A1713 Battery for MacBook Pro 13" A1708 Late 2016 2017 EMC 2978 3164
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15:19 That blade soldering tip can actually reach both side of a simple SMD passive at once if you rest it on the side of the SMD and add a lot of solder, ie, it can desolder both sides at once. It saves melting parts close by.
Ordered NinjaBatt brand before. IME, worked OK for first few months then capacity nosedives. Not the worst but not recommended either. Quality cells actually cost $ to manf, whooda thunk.?
My x99 motherboard got problem b7 if i use ram on upper side cpu , or 53 if i use ram on below side cpu , dont know what actually happen 😞
Non related to this video but has to do with Video 143 At mark 32:46 in the video what is the the thing called you are plugging the power and rest buttons called to be plugged in the motherboard?
I have hp pavilion g6 - 2288se capslock 2 long blinks problem , how to fix it:(
I have used greencell batteries and have not had any reliability problems
you do all this clamzi things on a costimer pc ? pur costimer/////
Northridge is using the capacitor book for that. You got something like that too?
Could the battery have blown up the capacitor?
I was wandering how much does a repair like this one cost appr.?
55 years of electronics and I have never seen a fuse that was not zero or infinite ohms.
hi. where do you buy Amtech flux? tnx
Great work 👍
You forgot a little drop of solder in the right of the fuse, it can cause problems!
hi, i love your videos, really helps a lot. maybe you would be so kind to assist me. i have a bricked gigabyte p17 v3 with the wrong bios and i am trying to reprogram it with a ch341a. now i followed your steps and advice as close as possible. my problem is that i cannot find a bios bin file for the chip (gd25b64csig) or i am just too ignorant. can you please assist me.
This one is tricky... You can download the BIOS from the gigabyte website as an exe, and then open it in 7zip. This contains "BOOT.img" which can also be opened in 7zip, which contains "OutImage.bin". That's the clean BIOS file.
If you flash that and the laptop starts, get it into windows, and then run the BIOS update again, to make sure the EC also gets updated.
@@Adamant_IT thanks a lot, worked splendidly. laptop up and running again.
so thankful that there are people outhere with proper advice and knowledge willing to share. have a great day.
0-5 ohms on a fuse is ok.
Hi bro do you have bios dump for asus rog strix hero II gl504gm with gtx 1060 gb? Or dead bord laying in your shop, i have some issues with bios file
About the fuse résistance : are you sure 80 is the résistance or the fuse or is it for exemple 30 to the ground from one side plus 50 to the ground from the other side ? What do you think ?
Graham an absolutely brilliant repair,and exellent fault finding,well done bud,
Great content like the detailed information you take time to put in
Thank you
As always great repair video Graham! I have one question; what is the microscope 🔬 you are using?
Andonstar AD407, as mentioned in the video, monocular scopes are difficult to work under, but great if you need video capture.
Unlock the batt and keep it as a tester
Great video. Thanks for not editing that down. 30-45 min is perfect to really (actually) learn stuff.
👍 I try to aim for 30mins, but I'll let the timer get up to 45mins before I really start slashing out sections. Past 45mins is when I think the content starts to get less accessible because there's too much in one video, or the video is just too slow.
@@Adamant_IT I 100% agree with that.
Please enable subtitle option
This video was published right after I uploaded it, so the captions might not have generated yet. Check back later! I always enable them by default.