I'm an old guy but still spend loads of time on the YT learning lots of ways to save money. This cat is good. I got this!!!!

This video was indeed of help. Replaced a blown cap and was getting this same voltage reading on the power rail. Changed the same fuse on mine and boom💥 its 100% working.

I dont have a mackbook but paul helped me figure out how to take apart an xbox one. He is a great help!

THIS IS GOT TO BE THE BEST AND EASIEST VIDEO TO FOLLOW ON KZfaq TO LEARN HOW TO TROUBLESHOOT BOARDS AND LEARN BOARD REPAIR. HE EXPLAINS IT SO WELL AND SO EASY TO FOLLOW. JUST SUBSCRIBED. ALL THE OTHER VIDEOS ON KZfaq ARE HARD TO FOLLOW BECAUSE THEY ASSUME YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT AND THEY ARE VERY HARD TO FOLLOW. JAY

Just watched the ps4 repair from hell and was going to ask if you had ever seen Louis's channel. Then i saw you were subscribed so I jumped ahead to this Macbook repair. I've learned so much about repairing Apple products from him that they are most times easy! Can't drag solder as well as him but I just try blaming that on not having as nice a scope!

I have a load of dead macs and laptops I get given them for part as I help out my local recycle centre I didn't realise you repair them as well, I have an a1466 that doesnt even show the charge light my ps4 is still going strong cant thank you enough for fixing it =)

Hello, I'm from Brazil and I was able to find your video after a lot of searching on the internet, I work at the company AppleVale, here in Brazil, we only work with Apple products, your video helped me clean 3 plates this week. Thank you and won + 1 more follower

Learn so much more from you than Louis.

Thankyou so much from Adelaide Australia. Been in electronics many years but always need help with familiarisation of particular systems like the A1466 you have been very very helpful, so thanks again regards Trev

Just fixed my old 2008 macbook! Wasn't the same issue but Openboardview and your video was all I needed!

Nicely repair. Well done. Its nice to see some different stuff being repaired on your channel.

Thanks for that - I tried all the resetting procedures, but nothing worked. I thought the laptop may have been dropped or most likely a SMD fuse, but wasn't sure what package the fuse came in. After seeing you video clip I immediately identified the fuse and lo and behold - open circuit! However, just wondering why you removed the PCB from the laptop, as you could have done this repair without removing the PCB. Thanks anyway, I did it for my neighbour and she'll be very, very grateful...LOL!

I’ve bought a macbook air 2012 that didn’t start at all, but the charging plug was lighting up green when plugged in and amber after few seconds. My fix was in freeing the motherboard from all wires and then reconnecting them(without the battery), put the back plate back on without the screws, then opening the mac, plugging the power cord and it started up, then safely turned it off and installed the battery and that was it. Worked on 2 Macs so far

Andrew, Thank you for the video. Can you please make a video for with the same method explanation for DJJaaM question.? I have the same problem (A1466 2013) after liquid, It seems a common problem. I don't have the schematic but I checked the Fuse and I have PPBUS_G3Hot power rail - in my case its around 8.1V.' I have also 3.3V which going to the battery and to On Switch

After removing the fuse you do not measure if there is a short to ground. Why else should the fuse blow? is that not a miss on your part when fixing this?. That again can make it fail again. Have done rep on electronic few decades. maybe i missed you checked that. Keep on doing board rep, Great to see.

Its wonderful to see. It was really helpful. Thank you.

ive checked for Voltage at the fuse, getting 8.6V fine. is there a list of possible components for no power, with required nodes and voltage measurements to ground? my battery replacement did not fix it. the device said service battery for a few months, and the customer didnt bring it in until after the device shut down

Just fixed one of these for a friend. I found a small brown cap was short. But it would still not start. Checked battery voltage and was around 7.6V I charged it to 8V on a benchtop supply. But it still wouldn't start. tried smc and pram reset. (Left it overnight on it's new fake power brick to keep charging). Next day and it started but in the password screen it seemed to shut itself down once. Asked owner for password and ran a few tasks such as 1st aid in disk util. then a pram reset. Seems ok now. SSD is hot and processor heatsink is hot. Not sure how normal that is. One thing I find strange and annoying not owning a pc is that Paul Daniels board view only seems to work on a pc and not on mac....... One thing I find strange is that the power brick he bought for it recently states an output voltage of 14.85V but the psu for my Retina which has the same type of magsafe has a rated output of 16.5V Wondering if the recently purchased power brick is the culprit? Also. just checked SSD and processor again after the resets and first aid and they are not as hot, much cooler in comparison. Oh well. Lets see if it keeps running and i will double check the suspect power brick.

Great Video Andrew. Congrats for the excellent job. I was wondering if you could help me with my MacBook air a1465 that stopped to work suddenly. No liquid spill. I have no green light and no PPBUS_G3H and the fuse and coil are OK. Which are other common faults in this kind of board? Thanks.

Amazing,, extremely talented, wish I could be smart as you

Mines doing the same thing I checked that fuse it's good on both side but the power button still don't work if you unhook the battery then hook the charger up it boots fine. I've also changed the keyboard and the controller on the back side of the mouse. Where else could I look? Thanks

Great video Paul!

Love ur videos!!! Here's a question for the infrared red that I want to fix but am almost afraid to try as I know virtually nothing about hardware.... After a drop my MacBook Air began behaving really odd (surprise!) no sound or audio is the only constant. Sometimes it won't turn on unless I do the... er, command, option, tab, power... thing lol ugh (embarrassing I'm SO SORRY FOR MY TECHNICAL 🙊🙈TERMINOLOGY🙈 🙈🙈😶) Lately tho I can turn it on without having to do the usual (for me) which was: mess with the charger (plug in take out at random while I knock on the bottom of it and down it's spine , press the above keys & repeat til it worked.🙊🤔👍 It's coming on now without that but it's done this before only to return to the above again. Also I get the black "screen of death" a lot, and program crashes where before I had none of that. So now really it's just my sound/audio... sometimes the battery will get very hot but usually it's the standard apple "cool/feel nothing going on"... 😐🙊 ahem so! 🙈 should I open it up to fix? Or is there a way I may can reset it & fix this without the need of risking me -a clumsy person- being a surgeon with my MacBook🙊🙏 ? I did a "factory reset" and nada happened .... that is needless to say to u guys I'm sure tho lol sorry.. hope to hear soon!!! Either way keep making your videos, absolutely awesome!

Very enjoyable, had to pay even more attention to the Englishmen

I have a no power issue on the same board, and I’m getting 8.18 on both sides of inductor and both sides of the fuse. Any thoughts? Thank you!!! Edit: there is also no visible damage anywhere, however I was told a ridiculously small amount of water fell on the corner of the keyboard. Worked fine put it to sleep and next morning not powering on.

Great job exactly the same problem on one of my macbook air and thats it you save my day^^thanks

Halo Andrew . Thank you for your video. I know this is from 2016 but if you still hate Adobe PDF use Sumatra PDF instead much, much better....

Hey man, can you tell me where i can buy the inductor that you changed? I found a faulty one on my A1466 Macbook Air but i don't know where to buy it? Amazing video by the way

Durga Mahapatra Nice video and explanation. I have a mac air 13 2012 which is dead. From the 5V rails PP5V_s0,S3 and S5 are missing. Can you pl tell me where to look for problem ? Thank you so much

PPBUS_G3Hot, is created inside of the circuit or in the mosfet and coil ??

Thanks man

Hi Andrew- Any idea what caused the fuse to blow? I usually find the fuse blows for a reason like a faulty charger but almost never without a cause.

Hi thank you for this video. I have the same issue on a Macbook A1465 11" 2015 can you tell me what is the reference of the fuse for this model ? thank you !

i have the macbook Air 13 2017, will this work on it?

That is a great video. My macbook is the exact same model and I am unable to power up. I get the correct voltage up to that circuit you replaced but still not power.. Any ideas what can continue causing issues? Any help will be appreciated

Very easy to follow. Liked and sub'd. Thanks Andrew!

Hello! Very good video! Where you buy the components?

Bonjour merci pour la vidéo. Je ne trouve pas les neo condensteur tokin auriez vous un site ? Merci d’avance.

Hi, yesterday I wrote to thank you for your clip on the open circuit SMD fuse. I ordered a pack of these this morning, but then decided to measure the SMD fuse to confirm it was O/C. Strangely, it reads .4ohms, which indicates it is still intact, though there is only 8.6 Volts on one side of the fuse. Further investigation shows that a number of SMD caps (some in parallel) next to the fuse read S/C, probably sucking the 8.6 volts on one side of the fuse, to ground. Most likely just one of the caps is S/C. This is all I can think of. Have you any ideas?

Hello I have Apple problems same can yo tell me where are you. I want you fix my Mack book 13 is well thanks.

if i have 1.5volt on 1st pin F7140 what i need to check? thank you for video!

I have a question what liquid did u use to remove and clean the component that you replaced? Where can i get the replacement component? What is the name of the component?

Thx buddy, very simply explained

Do u really need to take out d board when i want to chk voltages? would it be ok to just have it stay there and uae multimeter? im suspecting i also have fuse problem. pls enlighten. thanks. wil it damage anything if i dont remove the io board etc?

Good job! Thank you!

Thanks for the help. But I'm stuck on figuring out how to purchase those parts? Currently I have a 820-00165 with a dead F7140 and C7374. But I have no clue how to find out the correct size and values of the part to order. I tried mouser and entered the values for the tant-poly cap but they are no where matching to the needed stats (65uF; 20%, 11V; CASE-B2S). I can't find any cap that suits into all of those values. How to pick the correct one by adjusting a value? Also for the fuse. I basicly only have 8A/24V but nothing else. Can you give me a hint on how to find out the correct spare part? Thanks in advance

thank you verry much

Awesome information!! Andrew, i have one A1466 that is similarly dead but in my case, neither the charger light turns on, tried with another charger but nothing, where can i begin testing to see the problem???

Ross for President!!!! :)

hi can u give me details this part which u replace mate? i have to buy as well mate

What temperature are you using on the hot air gun?

One Question- when you used the multimeter to test the "PPBUS_G3Hot" -where did you put the black lead of the multimeter? I know you said "ground" but what would be a good ground to use? I was able to open mine up and put red lead of the multimeter but it was showing negative voltage (like -7 and or -8).

U save my life ❤

brilliant fault finding m8

Andrew Paul is their a better way to talk to you I have the logic board I think it just has slightly different parts/locations and I am bad at this kid of tech and the symptoms are must be plugged in to use but if unplug before shutdown screen go black but mouse is on it and it can be moved

Great video, Luis will be proud ;)

Andrew! Superb video. You really showed it step by step. Much appreciated. I have a few boards in need of repair. Do you have a PayPal so I can get advice on repairs? Thx

Hi Andrew, mac air 2009 - wont power up SMC resets didn't work, took back off - processor ? is red hot (big multi pin ic next to charger connection) model has huge battery covers about half the inside of the machine, model to small to read off rear of machine at 1am.

do you do mail in jobs on macbooks? i got a faulty 2012 15" macbook pro thats completely dead

i get 8.4v is that normal ?

well working

hi Andrew , I have a Macbook pro 2011 a1297 ( 820-2914) , it charges the battery but only would start up if I disconnect the battery and connect it back in. Would you give me some clues as to what to check? thank you for the very Informative video

the ppbus_g3hot passed on both sides now what to do if ppbus_g3hot passes

paul can u.make one video on how to read and use board view and laptop schematic plzzzz

Hey man, I have a macbook 820-3437 and the PPBUS-G3Hot power rail checks back at 8.5V. What is your go to after that? I cant find any traces that look damaged. It was originally water damaged (beer damage). I can't figure it out. If you could shed any light that would be great man. Thanks.

Can you replace the charging port ? If so where can I find a charging port ? Would I need to solder ?

Has anyone ever been able to find this F7140 fuse for sale? I don't have a donor board but i've tried a couple of different types of 8A 24V 1206 surface mount fuses and they don't seem to work. When the fuse is off the board I get 8.5v on pin 1, then when I put any of these fuses on pin 1 drops to around 0.5v. Am I missing something? Am I wrong in assuming these other fuses should work?

any link to buy this fuse???

Thanks for the great video! I got 2,5v at that inductor and the same at the fuse..anyway i don't have light on the charter but It feeds normally about 15v.. thanks for any advice!

I accidentally touched two components together and it sparked and smoked then I reassemble it and it worked

Where can I find this fuse?

Good afternoon, in Mexico will you know where I can buy the replacement part? and with what part number can I ask for it?

Hello Can I send you my mac book air 2013 for fixing please? It will not turn on. I have done all the usual tricks and have even tried to cross the power-on pads location on MacBook Air - A1466 but still not good. I have replaced the battery and it charges. Regards Jay

Sir in some cases after replacing the fuse it blows again. What could be the reason

super /........ bro//

What characteristics is the fuse? thank´s and pleasee

You can't have watched Louis very carefully- that was nowhere near the approved amount of flux 😝

I like louis too... question is...why did the fuse blow ?

Just realized my board is slightly different can you help I really want this Mac working

Genial

Hey please see this can you suggest a link to the fuse.

Where do you get the components from

plz sand me macbook air a1466 schematic diagram same laptop ..... adaptor light not glonw also a no power problam.

Hi i have a1466 No power I Removed batterry and tried also tried to remove ssd abd ram as well no luck. When I tried to reset smc its turn green for 2 sec and turn orange again. Any clue. thanks

do u do repairs to these?

My Laptop MacBook air power on no display plz help

Hello, where can i purchase the F7140 fuse? thank you

Hello, please can I bypass that ?

What is the open press down type connector that is near the middle mounting hole on the motherboard? I ask because the Mac mini 2014 has a similar connection that is apparently a way to connect to the PCIe bus. ( beetstech.com/product/ssd-cable-connector-821-00010-a ) Would it by chance be possible that the 2012 MBA has that same connector and could it maybe be used for a NVMe PCIe Drive with maybe an longer flex cable?

Dear Paul I have the same problem this Fuse in my Macbook Air mid 2015 . What means the description 8AMP-24V in the Macbook schematic? >>> Current Rating: 8 A and Voltage Rating DC: 24 VDC or is the Interrupt Rating: 8 A . What kind is this fuse ? Fast, normal or slow switch off?

what type of fuse is? thanks

where to buy this component?

Hello you could send to my mail the link where I can download the electronic diagrams, thank you very much for your help.

pleaserecorde some vedio how to use scematic to locate componient

A1466 model

Bro where to download MacBook schematic ?

hi i got a macbook air my kid splil water on keyboard now is death can you advice me problem

What is asd

Full scan says pc good

Hi, do you have pay help option? I have 0.9v on F7140 and L7130 and all ppbus_g3h shows 0.93v