MacBook Air A1466, Lots of Corrosion! - LFC

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[@pldaniels]

Nice job there Graham. Good to see you're getting a supply of A1466's to repair still. Glad to see FlexBV and the USB-C meter came in use too ;)

[@MuertoGB]

I love your enthusiasm when the fan spins. Good fix, good explanation of the charging circuit. You make me proud.

[@flashjazzcat]

You've really upped your game here and the explanation of the investigative process was highly educational.

[@KeyResults1]

One your finest videos in my opinion. Very well done in every respect.

[@antoniomaximino1410]

A perfect example of knowlodge and experience connected !

[@lemagreengreen]

Always interesting to hear about the business side of things too, have been pretty interested in that as well as the repairs. One of my favourite channels these days!

[@harriscom9255]

That was an excellent repair video, man the size of those resistors is crazy to work with. Thanks for sharing.

[@sbrewski27]

Wow that sonic bath was awesome!

[@hiphoplambchop1748]

Yeah i have to agree, i have watched many of your repairs and this was up there with the best, very well explained and executed...noice!!

[@bartoszk2947]

Thank you for your repair, great description of the schemartic, thanks to your videos I repaired 2 Macbooks.

[@gravedigga71]

very well done Graham. 👏

[@Preciousfrank]

a pleasure to watch your videos. thank you very much

[@BasicComputerRepair]

I have to say, IMO, that was your best video. Great explanation of the schematic along with diagnosis and good soldering on small components.

[@stupiddog79]

"A bid horrid"

[@smbrob]

Great fix, your reasoning while fixing is logical and smart.

[@carlojoselitochua2954]

Done watching, thank you very much for the informative repair video. I have learned significantly more troubleshooting & repair lessons in this tutorial video and to your other repair videos as well compared to my ENTIRE 4 YEARS OF COLLEGE due to the rotten & outdated standards of education here in the Philippines. I hope you will soon have a mini-series for Schematic & Boardview-free Voltage/Power Rail Tracing[12V/18-20V Main Voltage Rail, 5V, 3.3V, CPU/GPU Core Voltage Rail, DRAM Voltage Rail, IGPU Voltage Rail, System Agent/Northbridge Voltage Rail, PCH Voltage Rail, BIOS Voltage Rail, Battery Power Rail], Proper method of testing/checking of potentially faulty MOSFETs & ICs/Controller Chips, CPU/GPU/PCH Reballing and BIOS Bin File Editing.

[@Jm4steam]

Good video. You do excellent at explaining everything as you go along.

[@ohaya1]

Mega like! I absolutely loved how you read and explained that schematic, really appropriate for begginers to get a feel for how they should read & interpret these more complex schematics. I'll deffinitely need to look at other videos to see whether you explain like this in other videos. I could learn a lot!

[@winlose3073]

Really great job Graham, thanks for this video it was very informative! Adding the music as well was very good to keep a clear mind.

[@jaym5938]

I knew Apple puts budgies inside - for that authentic chirp sound. That one was well fed.

[@retrocomputinggrotto]

Great to watch you reworking all those components, I still need more practice at doing that as the monitor I was attempting to repair had to go in the WEEE as I lost a couple of the teeny-tiny SMD capacitors I had removed!! :(

[@demiankeaough4616]

Love the repair videos!

[@coctailrob]

Minor correction 820-00165 boards are both 2015 and 2017 models. Chassis and screens are interchangeable between all 2013-2017 models though.

[@Zwiesel66]

3:12 Omg, a bird was sucked into the laptop 😂 - It is always super interesting to look over your shoulder when you are doing these repairs, even though I am a complete electronics novice. I wish I had someone like you around the corner here in Germany as I am having some minor issues with the battery charging on my beloved old MacBook Air A1466 - I think something weird is going on as the new replacement battery is not working reliably.

[@markteeee]

Looked like a dead mobo, nice repair, amazing how well your ultrasonic cleaner worked.

[@darrena2625]

Looks like that poor laptop went swimming in the local duck pond !

[@ianmorris8534]

"......Remove anything that looks a bit Jamie Oliver......" haha, nice!

[@biffedya]

thanks again for another great tutorial vid...have a great 2024

[@nikolaskallianiotis8622]

I think here we are looking at the effect of very humid environment in conjunction to exposure between high and low temperatures. This couldn't happen by a single spill of liquid but from condensing humidity and dirt accumulation in a period of time. Watching quite a few repairing channels you are one of not too many explaining step by step working along with the schematics. This is very educational and real knowledge sharing video.

[@thebeeamberheardsdogsteppe6368]

Mad respect I think I would have called it a day if I saw the board :D

[@gogee8510]

Ha ha! I was just thinking htat myself, to "come off the microscope". Wow, that board looks great after that ultra sonic. Love the video. Love the hot plate.

[@wisher21uk]

Blinding result well done 😊

[@billymiles5310]

Would like to see more desktop motherboard repairs

[@zoidberg444]

I have this exact board in my Macbook Air. I have really considered trying to reball new RAM chips into it to get more RAM as 4GB is a bit painful these days. On the other hand it has been a very reliable hard working machine for many years. One of the very few products Apple made that maybe approached being worth its price tag when it was released. When mine was new in 2015 I actually would regularly get 8-10 hours out of it on a single charge which was useful given my job at the time. Glad to see this one live to fight another day. Years ago I used to watch Louis Rossmans autistic repair streams until the early hours of the morning.

[@ChuckNorris-lf6vo]

Good job.

[@Sctronic209]

Job well done.

[@buteforce]

"Remove anything that looks a bit Jamie Oliver". Pukka!

[@theshemullet]

You could look at buying a cheap dehydrator for drying after the US bath. Just to be sure all moisture was out

[@shanenorman7262]

That’s a really good job.

[@michaelmeux4137]

Great video brother

[@DanzilF]

Great content, as always, Graham. I know you did a video about bench PSUs quite a while ago, but would you mind sharing an update about how you are connecting the USB-C (including power supply + Paul Daniels's meter)? I'm looking for an effective way to have a USB-C supply connected to my bench PSU + meter. I have a feeling my PSU is not ideal (being it a cheap one) having short circuit protection & needs to be shorted to be able to adjust the current. Thanks. Daniel.

[@optimizelogicrepair2784]

I do what some others do, I’ll sell the customer a replacement refurbished board, then take this board and refurbish at a later time. Customer gets out the door quick and on the cheap, I get another board in the rotation.

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea this is what I'm trying to get into now, as I've got a few boards in my pile with issues that _can_ be fixed, but aren't jobs I really want to do on an open ticket.

[@cmizapper]

The Chipmunk USB Tester is a better indicator if it is turning on than the fan.

[@KevinJohnson-je1pe]

What no milk in your cleaner 😂😂😂

[@sherlockholmes1121]

I think a farmer left that in his chicken shed LOL

[@tjaytony]

what microscope are you using. i am looking to buy one.

[@Maveric193]

Hi, another absolutely superb video. Please could you tell me what flux you are using and what mix the lead solder is please? Any links would be great. That vwould be most helpful. Looking forward to the next one, always find these riveting. Thank you

[@Adamant_IT]

Amtech V3. I did have a UK supplier for it, but they're not stocking any more, so I don't have any links. Solder is some ancient spool I've owned for decades, no idea what spec it is!

[@peterlethbridge7859]

Hi Adam, Fantastic video, as usual. I really appreciate your time in producing these. I have a question regarding FlexBV. Where do you obtain the schematic and board views from? I've looked on Madcap's and either I'm missing something, as I can't find a central point where these can be found. You help would be greatly appreciate.

[@Adamant_IT]

If you google search "820-00165 schematic", the top hit is a Badcaps thread with the schematic and BV attached

[@HeTake123]

30:18 Bill Turner on a MacBook logic board? :O

[@emtechupdate]

Can someone help me with a video link on how I can replace damaged components on motherboard

[@jmqwert]

Great save, and good approach. This board is propably going to run several years yet. The biggest thing killing these laptops is software updates.. hardware turns way to fast obsolete.. Got a dell 2017 xps 9550, i7 quad core, nvidia gpu, on second battery…cant update to win 11. Still is a fast and sleek computer, but no win11 equals over time obsoletion…

[@andrasszabo7386]

Why don't factories conformal coat these boards lightly, so no liquid would damage them?

[@techniqueskhalid9873]

I ❤ your job please how i Can found the schematic🎉

[@bottlebaby]

Quick note, looking at the power draw meter in the top left, what device did you use for hooking up to the magsafe 2 connector?

[@pldaniels]

It's one of my USB-C meters and he's using a USB-C to Magsafe2 cable. Of course, as yet, I still haven't got them up for general sale :|

[@orfeous]

Nice fix! Is it possible to swap logic board on my old MacBook Pro Late 2013 13.3" Retina A1502 for a smaller upgrade?

[@Adamant_IT]

I don't think you'll be able to get a meaningful upgrade - the 2015 Retina has a different chassis version, so 2014 is the best you might be able to do, and that's not going to change much unless you were able to go from an i5 to an i7 or something. There's wiggle room with the MacBook Air because the chassis itself basically didn't change for like, 6 years.

[@stebrad123]

I'd really like to acquire the knowledge to do these kind of repairs. Could I ask you how you have gained all this electronics knowledge ? I've been running an IT sales/repairs/support business for 30 years but I have never really had this board level repair knowledge (I do everything else except board level repairs). I'd like to be able to do these kinds of repairs myself instead of farming them out. Thanks, Steve Express Computers

[@DumahBrazorf]

For what i remember also a trackpad or keyboard problem could prevent che board to power on.

[@Adamant_IT]

Kind of. I don't think it can prevent the board from starting, but if the keyboard isn't getting a proper link, the power button might not work, which might look like a no-power situation.

[@bernardbush4199]

Can you tell me please which version of boardview you use. And was it a download. Thanks..

[@Adamant_IT]

I use FlexBV, by Paul Daniels

[@marksplace]

I've never un-subscribed from your channel yet I've probably subscribed to it maybe 10 times in the past month or so. If you're loosing subs perhaps it's because of KZbin. When you show in my feed they show up as a mix set of videos, that's when I'll see if I'm subscribed to you channel and sure enough I'm usually not. Eifherway, I hope that this gets sorted out because I enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@Adamant_IT]

Cheers, yea the last year has been hard work with the numbers... I've no idea what's going on with KZbin if I'm honest. There's not a lot I can do about it but just keep working on the content.

[@simonm444]

fell in a bird bath

[@krystof100]

Feather? Maybe he want to be 99 fishing master!

[@josephneale10215]

Big fat mega OUCH

[@ronlevin2339]

new MacBook's will not survive this amount of corrosion and you can even transfer logic board from one mac to another (same model) without a problems, and no customer data

[@0o9ijnbhytgr]

It's not 100% profit, your time is worth money to :)

[@willbarger2233]

Is it profit or covering your wage and business costs?

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea in this case I mean money that then pays wages and such 👍

[@Axl_Pose]

PPBus lol

[@wayneg296]

👍👍😎✌️🤟😉

[@philipslighting8240]

There is a bird feather in there. Birds can carry nasty stuff be carefulll in future.

[@dwight2310]

hello mister bad hair day

[@wiseemhanif3386]

Hello handsome

[@nixielee]

No sense replacing all those caps, and especially not the ones you already had excluded. You just ended up with a worse donor board and no real answer

[@IdiotRace]

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