Identifying power cycling, repairing Macbook logic board

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[@rossmanngroup]

From now on, every day, we are going to be posting an informative board repair video. I hope you learns something!

[@diamondhawk7427]

40 minutes of macbook repair, nice

[@ManichoIT]

Learn from the best of the best Sir coach Louis

[@7177YT]

Nice watching a pro ply his craft. (: Yah sure gives us more videos lile this. (:

[@robsnook4512]

You make me want to buy a personal macbook so i can help keep you in business;)

[@JohnSmith-yl9en]

And speed talking like Montgomery Burns in Simpsons.

[@mushkamusic]

Been watching you fix crap since you had about 5k subs, seems like a long time ago now. As you probably know all too well, it's so much more insightful watching YOU make mistakes while problem solving than just showing us an easy fix every time. I actually learned a lot in this one, thanks Louis. Keep doing what you're doing man, and thanks for sharing the knowledge.

[@Democracyphobia]

How come this never been in my recommendations before ? This channel is a hidden goldmine

[@hughhemington9559]

If they're going to "scan" packages in/at the truck, they should be able to PRINT OUT a receipt as proof it happened before they move the truck.

[@georgeburns5811]

Louis, your videos provide far more information than how to fix a Macbook. Your demonstration of critical thinking and the application of logic and common sense to do your job has a much wider use in almost anyone's daily job or life. Thanks for all the effort and time you give to your videos.

[@Luzt.]

Man you rock! You provide a very valuable contribution to the society. I wish you all success.

[@DK-tq9lx]

You don't realise how happy I am when a new Louis video comes out.

[@emailfilters]

It started looking like a rabbit hole a few minutes into it; but, you pulled it off nicely! Great sleuthing! My dad always told me I can do anything (the impossible will only take as little longer). You're making me believe him with videos like this!

[@KyleShields]

Really putting some soul into that solder!

[@rmosier4749]

Great video sir! I have a A1278 that had a beer spilled in it. Thanks to you and your videos, I feel I have gained the knowledge to make this repair. I have everything working to this point but the backlight for the display, I hope by replacing the display connector that it will be fixed, as several of the pins are gone.....thanks again and keep up the good work.

[@101hiimnorm]

I just replaced an A1502 display assembly.. Like an hour ago. My point? Broke a screw in the process on the L speaker assembly. Glad I have extras

[@jbsoul4575]

Your gym analogy was brilliant.

[@itmighty]

Another video from the Bob Ross of Macbook board repair. Oof

[@Billblom]

A Happy little SMC....

[@qouteler6092]

LMAO

[@brantstringer]

@@noongourfain dude, it's a perm!

[@CarolSocorro.Maguinsay]

Genius Louis

[@oceanfiretv]

Dude your videos are amazing. Keep 'em coming. I have one board ready to send your way right now! MrMike from Philly

[@erickivannhoebeniteztorres8561]

I just want to say that I enjoy watching you repair electronics, I just subscribed after a week of watching your videos.

[@chrismeakins9653]

Just getting into your video's, saw you with linus and found your personality really entertaining even if you dont mean for it to be. I know virtually nothing about PC's as im just getting started with it all so thanks for teaching me something :)

[@MidnightBloomDev]

Apple : How about replace the whole board? :)

[@bflippsytrance]

You're like the Bob Ross of hardware repair Louis.. It takes skill to turn logic board repair into something entertaining and informative at the same time, anything special in mind when you reach 1 million subs?

[@Hostilenemy]

Hey, you're that guy that rides a bafang on NYC streets. What's that? You repair macbooks too? Oh such a nice hobby you have!

[@Xenoray1]

Yeah i like his hobby too, its nice that he is a fulltime youtuber and gains money throught his hobby macbook repair videos.. ohh wait

[@Peter-xu4fb]

Nice video I have been following your channel, immediately I saw 0.0079 I knew a chip was heating up, 0.0079 was too much for a mac that has no power.

[@exero4738]

WOW, for a program making your life so much easier 79 bucks is a steal!

[@DanHaiduc]

Yup. Especially compared to the plzbro cam.

[@Todestelzer]

I think it was good to remove the regulator. In the end it overheated because of the short. It could have fail in the future.

[@harshitv5079]

Good explain. Nice job

[@DatM135i]

Keep up the good work though Louis, I commented about your grey at 2 years younger than me the other day on one of your videos m but it was only a joke, seems like you and your team are pros at repairs keep it up hope you do well.

[@markholland8152]

Great job mate

[@mtech1961]

Louis you should employ that woman from USPS probably do an amazing job if paid even a half decent salary and she will know who to deal with at USPS when things go wrong.

[@dalecostich8794]

perfect characterization of water analogy of PWM. i hope i can borrow that from you.

[@potc420]

20:22 "plug it in plug it in" Holy blast from the past!! I actually forgot about that!!

[@MrAndyloz]

some of this is actually starting to make sense..😀😀

[@greengonzonz]

Lol, you were saying solder like it sounded weird but here in NZ it sounded perfect 😂

[@bobthebuilder9416]

I'm loving these daily videos

[@Alex-wg4gy]

Great video, excellent games that you highlighted. I have one major issue though, your outlook on modern games is heavily instructed by triple-a drivel and so of course you would think that games are getting worse, because triple-a games are getting worse. I am not familiar with your indie gaming experience, but trust me, the future of games is in indies.

[@dushooter]

Just saw that Apple is allegedly going to release repair part for Iphones to repair folks. Hope you can them to give in to get computer repair parts!!!

[@lolcup]

5:39 dam hot hands ;)

[@Xenoray1]

Mans no hot

[@ny3ali]

The only thing I love in this video is that legendary think pad.

[@GPSJayDog22]

Great mention at the end of your video Louis. Your the man :-) Jay

[@thedogbarber]

Louis is that of legend.

[@spaceorbison]

I'll never forget the time I ran into a Louis Rossmann comment on an iZotope Nectar plugin video lol... apparently using software to double up a voice is something we both agree is lazy and lame.

[@2lefThumbs]

Haha, brilliant English accent on the solder👍👍

[@GroovyVideo2]

power cycling - Louis was going to talk Ebike -- lol

[@JPkerVideo]

From all those board repair videos I have learnt that Rossmann is written with two S's and N's.

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

Next time someone asks me how voltage is stepped down in buck converters I'll play your explanation lmao

[@TmanT321]

Hi Louis. I am someone who is starting my own computer repair business and I would like to start doing what you do, maybe not even on my customers computers, but just to practice to a point where I feel I can do this for people, and I'm most of the way there. My primary concern is what I should buy off the bat, chip-wise, to do common macbook repairs and fix easy chip swaps, and just to use while I learn. Thanks for any input from anybody who knows what they're talking about. EDIT: What temp is your hot air station at for these kinds of things?

[@michalcross9013]

Why can't we have someone like you in Amsterdam?! XD

[@mvviking358]

i love youre vids, they are brilliant :)

[@DanHaiduc]

15:18 "I'm pretty sure that resistor goes somewhere" Now I start suspecting that's why the video took 40 mins.

[@Paul-IE-Repairs]

yep, did we ever find out where it went?

[@DanHaiduc]

@@Paul-IE-Repairs It probably floated to where it should be, like the MagSafe.

[@JohnCena-oh9nl]

Love your videos and your funny af great work

[@bobreichel]

I have a Mac book pro late 2013 I'm getting a black screen. It just started about a week ago. It will come back on if I let it rest for a while but then it goes back out to black. I'm not sure why. I put new thermal paste on the CPU and GPU hoping that would help but it still just kept going black after maybe an hour to an hour and a 1/2 of use. Do you have an address that I could send it up to you and have you look at it and or fix it. Love your videos 👍👍

[@yadehightech]

Merci beaucoup

[@upbest1727]

you're just master and learning gum making everything fun !@! bfull thanks for bfull mind effort , what about paul is he made a tutorial

[@pigeonpallz1733]

What kinda mic do you use ? Sounds good

[@christopherrogers5464]

Can you make a video about Bug Type 210 happening on 2019 MacBook Pros?

[@kingwilliams8521]

Louis, do you ever work on Samsung phones or anything like that? I could only imagine how many people would flock over just to watch a note 9 being repaired. Hell, I watch your vids and can't stand apple but I like the vids anyway. I'm sure other samsung users would tune in as well.

[@robsnook4512]

Nicolas Williams he might not be certified in personal IED devices

[@pcmandan]

whats the fancy psu Louis

[@davesmith7671]

Always wondered why here in the UK we call it soldering yet in the USA it's said sodering.

[@john_titor1]

I believe it's because sometime in the past, the brits decided to sound more french by pronouncing the l's. Meanwhile, the Americans brought over the older pronunciation including the silent l, and just kept it that way.

[@davesmith7671]

@@john_titor1 assuming that would answer why there is a U in colour here and none in the USA spelling too although doesn't answer the Alluminium thing. Not that any of it matters just always wondered . Thank you for responding too though

[@2lefThumbs]

@@john_titor1 why do Americans say parsta for pasta, lartay for latte, urb for herb, and filay for fillet (steak) then?

[@john_titor1]

@@2lefThumbs Americans do not pronounce pasta as parsta. We usually say pah-sta just like how not all UK pronounce pasta as pass-ta (with an ash vowel). Most americans pronounce pasta as pa.sta. Same as with pasta, so is it with latte. I think you are talking about some sort of southern dialect, which is definitely not the norm for most americans, but again, they don't pronounce it as parsta, but more like paw-sta, which to many non-rhotic speakers can sound like an r, i think a lot of that has to do with brits inferring open a's as ending in r's, like the famous example of obamar. Obama was. Obamar is. As for herb, americans again seem to stick with the older pronunciation, while brits decided to modern frenchify theirs. Herb comes from middle english erbe, which comes from old french erbe, both lacking the h. Of course, both of these are thought to come from a proto-indo-euro word starting with aspiration, which would make sense to how it evolved into an h. Finally, fillet also comes from french, but for some reason, Brits decided to defy french pronunciation and anglicize it, whereas americans kept it french. I do not know why this is the case, but is evidenced in other words such as valet as well. In many of these cases, it is as simple as a single sound with two different pronunciation features that are eventually carried down into two separate languages, each language keeping only a single feature. As most often is the case, the daughter languages do not have the exact phonology of the parent, and thus often drop certain features, such as aspiration.

[@john_titor1]

@@davesmith7671 Aluminum aluminium is actually quite interesting of a case. In any sense, it essentially boils down to this: the discoverer initially named it alumium, then aluminum. Finally, many of his british cohorts objected to his name, and decided upon aluminium sometime thereafter. This is another case where americans kept the older pronunciation. In this case, it's obvious there is no "right" pronunciation, as the name is completely derived, and there is a basis for elements ending in both -um and -ium.

[@AgtX999]

Liked just for saying solder correctly instead of saying sodder haha

[@jay2434]

Louis, what is the sketch of behind your head?

[@emporerodin]

Sending thoughts and clowns.

[@nettyvoyager6336]

i am guessing mac repair pays more than pc repair or any other electronics if you can troubleshoote trace pins through boards and find loops and drops or neg to ground it usually the voltage isn't getting to it or at the correct voltage to move the gates sounds like a load of word salad to me :P smc's mcu's vcc power up down hot cold low or negged out yes its all word salad :P

[@emperorSbraz]

pc repair has a seemly infinite amount of possible part replacement spanning all budgets. cnc machine repair isn't a thing (kinda apple-like) because it's more profitable to sell the whole thing over and over again citing "update" and "upgrade" in the invoice to sweeten the deal..

[@TAILSORANGEs]

Louis "BobRossmann": do we have T-2 potato Chips ?

[@megalith7796]

14:07 do i see a shattered SMD? Or is it flux?

[@rikschaaf]

@Louis Rossmann What is the advantage of using leaded solder over unleaded solder? And does this weigh up to the environmental impact when this can have when this computer eventually gets thrown away? This question coming from someone who genuinely doesn't know the soldering advantages and knows nothing about the environmental impact of lead in trash apart from general concerns about lead.

[@johnuferbach9166]

i doubt the tiny amount he is putting in would change much on the environmental side (back in the day they had water oipes made from lead and still got like 50years old^^) i don't really know why, but generally leaded solder is considered easier to work with... on hobbyist sites they all recommend leaded solder^^

[@packmack78]

Hey Louis wich of your products do you recommend for me to be like you!!

[@catharperfect7036]

You MUST have everything JBC. Anything else and you'll never make it.

[@mountainman6172]

Why is Paul Daniels donating in Aussie Dollars? BTW: Watch to the end, well worth it tehehe

[@peteshannon5194]

..... in Australia. :-)

[@GlazzedDonut]

I only came for his good looks in the way he says pp3pv4

[@Dawid5g]

I'm thinking about making a manga of him doing macbook repair

[@str0g]

Wäre did u get that thinkpad keyboard from?

[@dfnelektronik]

Greetings from Turkey. macbook pro 2012 available. cpu frequency 0.7GHZ does not increase in this regard. what do you think the problem might be?

[@paulzaim7900]

Bad CPU

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

37:53 Nothing worse than getting stabbed in the PP....5VS3

[@Fender178]

Yeah the tariffs are even effecting big businesses like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to the point they wrote a letter to the White House complaining about it since parts for their consoles are made in China.

[@theamer-rican6865]

Hey nice image of Keke you got there on your please bro cam table.

[@USAMehdi]

About Post Office...and other big Corps. I really think there's a conspiracy against anything right or any one good. The other day I shopped at this big chain store n the cashier asked me to go the site printed on my recept and take a survey and give her high marks. I said no way I wouldn't do that to you. since I want you to keep your job She got confused so I had to tell her that I used to go out of my way help everyone at my job n won few awards too but I actually got fired because the bastards don't want good ppl and prefer a..holes and idiots these days. Almost Every high ups I've seen lately were jerk n idiots. I think it's by design. So I'm glad you got the USPS guy on tape n I hope that lady keeps her job.

[@thedragonsbassboost8003]

30 seconds after post. I got u bro

[@JoannaHammond]

Thought you where still on holiday ... lol

[@aidanmcfadyen4805]

Anyone have any thoughts on the gigabyte aero 15xa with 4k oled display?

[@slavko321]

:D looks horrific, judging by the fatness, it's a shitbox. Nothing bad, but a proper meh.

[@aidanmcfadyen4805]

@@slavko321 wdym by fatness? As in it like a thick laptop? Wouldn't that be worth it if the cooling actually works effectively?

[@rroge5]

I dont understand how it is enough power goes through those tiny traces on circuit board...

[@emperorSbraz]

afaik they use thikker traces. voltage drop on a conductor is of course related to resistance but on such short paths it doesn't matter. what DO matter is when the conductor heats up and has a very small mass so it becomes a flaming fuse.. some stuff about trace thikkness -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board#Copper_thickness

[@RicksRoads]

7:16 Bruh thought I had a fan explode or a wire shorting i'm fixing a computer rn dont scare me like that

[@xxDrain]

30:40 going in dry :s

[@MrRaebild]

I look at your TOOLS USED but did not find the plz bro device ;) what is the name of it :)

[@ashtokm]

Why did you start saying (and emphasizing) the word solder rather than your usual sodder?

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

a joke I guess

[@ipodguy9]

Hi

[@xeridea]

Seems these macbooks have an abnormally high amount of power/charger issues... perhaps this is how apple sells new machines?

[@vmiguel1988]

Huahuahua I laugh with Louis analogies

[@DodoGTA]

PP Bus G3 Hot

[@oukn6293]

The battery looks like you should poke it with a stick to see what happens 🙃.

[@Xenoray1]

Nothing.. never saw the hammer video ?!

[@DJJOHNNYT1]

🌟❤️

[@TisEsMe]

Dr. Louis Rossmann, MacBook Dentist

[@btmiller14]

what... no paul ammount of flux.

[@xxDrain]

Fffffiiiivvvve.

[@johnnull1375]

You already had the clowns come in... Apple ;)

[@zacharyjune7510]

Ah shit here we go again

[@craftnut]

He seems depressed about not having the clowns.

[@manuellopez1956]

99.99% of techs would have given up on this board.

[@modmiiwii]

Why did you get that damn song stuck in my head. It's so bad.

[@lookatthemoves1951]

So i put a small amount of flux there Me:small amount.......... Yeah i don't know about that

[@kastor8274]

Is Kevin still working for you ?

[@lacucaracha111111]

SOOOOLDER

[@bcatt-oq2mk]

my kitty cat name sammmm

[@vanannavarasan4522]

Day by day I see more videos of MacBook chips failing in post 2012 MacBooks. Why is that, definitely these microchip faults are not diagnosable by a person who has no knowledge or background on electronics or resources to identify the problems. However, these microchip issues are rarely at fault over pc based laptops. So can I say that Pc based manufacturers place more reliable chips and motherboard designs compared to Apple? Or is it Apple eventhough they innovate new technology the aren’t able to stump out defective chip designs or the way they are housed on the board? It is very strange why chips starts to fail in a two year or even a one year old MacBooks while Pc based laptops continue to work for at least more than 5 years. Also to make it worse I’m hearing discussions that Apple has decrypted some chips in a way that any removal or modification of them will lead to complete malfunction of the board. So what is really happening? If they made reliable chips or housing of them in the board people will not be running around asking for repairs. I just don’t get it why laptops don’t have these kinds of issues but Apple has? I see tons of issues on Apple forums about graphic card, retina monitor and so on.. why people still buy Apple when they can see infront of their eyes evidences of rampant failures of Apple devices? While I know they are people with Apple devices that never had issues, I am talking for people who have issues with Apple products.