MacBook Pro Heatsink standoff repair & new SSD, FW Pass Removal - LFC
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2021
- A caboodle of stuff needed on this MacBook Pro. Fun stuff though, worth sharing!
Also me getting trolled by a SPI ROM chip I haven't seen before.
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Well done again Graham lovely clear voice , I understand every word no mumbling or rambling, I am a 70 year old novice and enjoy all your videos. Cheers from Ireland
Thank you Graham, I opened a Dell Inspiron AIO this morning to sort out an overheating problem, and the entire cooling assembly fell out - it was completely detached. I managed to find the confidence to re-fix all six standoffs courtesy of this video!
Enjoy your videos from Canada. Graham you're a gifted instructor.
14:50 "Didn't even have to fast forward". The Dream! Great video and very well explained 😊👌
Thanks for the heads up on the second channel. I remember when you were considering it but completely forgot. Popping over to sub as soon as this video ends.
Hello Graham,great video and your Tech talk videos are great as well.Unfortunatelly my english sucks so i need to fully concentrate which is quite difficult on long videos.
Anyway you are making superb videos,thank you!
Thank you Graham for your inspiring and friendly videos. I recovered my sons old 2009 macbook pro which was waiting to go to Apple to be 'recycled' as it had a keyboard failure - I presume a liquid spill. Used it as a cerebral challenge, ordered a new KB and back light which came today and it's all back together working like a happy I5 lappy. It'll now find a new home in the village after being reformatted and Montaray put on it ( from Mr Macintosh RUclips tutorial). Keep up the inspirational videos.
Errors are good, too for us we are all learning. This could happen to us in the future, and I'll just say, "Oh this happened to Graham, and he fixed it by doing this."
ٍwitnessing you encountering problems & solving them is a better learning experience than a perfect tutorial because that's how real life is and now we know how we can address these issues.
That is sooo good to hear. I am doing work on MAC here in the Calif. I just purchased a battery for a mac book pro that I had. I used that battery brand. I had never heard of them before, but I have respect for what you do. I am learning a lot from you watching. I have three mac book pro that I have been able to get back into service. I do have an MB Air that had liquid damage. Now, trying to get it running... Thank you again....
Well done very informative always like you videos have downloaded them as an mp3 file to listen to in my car also on my ipod.
Thank you mate, you are the best IT guy.
Thanks for the great content as always!
For thermal paste, I put on a couple drops of Goof-Off or Zippo lighter fluid (same ingredients but lighter fluid is much cheaper). Been doin it like that for a few decades, makes the old paste turn into a liquid in a couple seconds. Wipes off quickly and easily.
Thanks for the video. Keep up the good work!
I really love your job man
another great video Graham
All A1398s have the BIOS-chip next to the KB-connector.
All A1502s have the BIOS-chip on the other side of the board.
All A1466s have the BIOS-chip on the other side of the board.
Thank you.
Cheers Graham .... Like the way You did not Edit out the mistaken identity of the Chip , That's more beneficial then You think ...
thanks brow
Thank you 👍
Suggestion for thermal paste removal. I've found that dry-rubbing off the mass of it first avoids too much of a mess. Using cotton-swabs or paper towels. Then apply the cleaner (IPA, Orange based, etc) to the remains to soften it then wipe.
That makes sense 👌
Nice video enjoyed watching this one
In the past: "no need to use flux"
Now: "I'll use a little flux !!! Ohhh so easy" :)
Just received my RT809F programmer, thanks to your prior demonstration.
keep in mind if you are a professional shop that needs to repair many like lenovo w the MEC16xx or Nuvoton chip (non standard SPi chip).. RT809H model is the one that works but its more $$
@@LeadFarmer813 I did look at the RT809H and was impressed with the capabilities, however as you pointed out it is pricy.
Wow don't knock yourself that's brilliant workmanship👍😎
10:45 My AIO Dell Inspiron 7459's heat sink nuts also resoldered from mobo. And if you look at ebay or aliexpress for mobo replacements, many have the same problems.
great video
Beautiful video
Very informative nice video
You are the only Briton I know who has an even more eccentric hairstyle than Boris Johnson.
That far down south they cut their own hair 😉
I enjoyed this video Graham.
At least that BIOS chip supply voltage confusion worked in your favour, would have been worse of course if the data sheet had said 3.3v whilst chip was in reality 1.8v. In case of a fried chip, how would you have programmed a new one? Are Apple BIOS contents available online?
Yea, someone will have a BIOS dump for one of these, likely on the Badcaps forums or something like that.
Schematics baby!!
love the thanks very much u **** catches us all at times
Hey, thank you so much for this amazing video. I just ordered my ch341a because I have a 2012 macbook pro with firmware password. you said you missed the part of reprogramming the chip because you forgot to hit record, can you please refer me to an earlier video explaining how you do that? thank you a lot
22:51 .. easy way is w RC Unlocker from badcaps..
🤔🔎 Hmm, still not making contact, things are not matching up. When in doubt pull the schematics on the little guy. I rather be on the safe side. At least I'll know what exactly I'm working with. Let's see what Graham does.
What’s the little fridge unit on the worktop in the background for? Nice video as normal. 👍
It's a phase-change cooler (freezer) for extreme cooling/overclocking. Caradog and I were dabbling with it in the podcast last month or so ago. It'll chill a running CPU down to around minus 30c.
Top Man.
You should use Carbon Copy Cloner, and just clone the drive. It's quicker.
You didn't say how you knew $svs was the FW lock - or - did I miss that?
I've covered that in previous videos about MacBook password removal.
26:25 o.O and you can even use the normal screw whole???? Its like apple wanted the option by them selve to use ordniary m.2 SSD's with an adapter! Crazy stuff! I mean when the standard is odler then these Macbooks, why where to apple ones long enough that you can now use an adapter o.O ?
25:10 onward (the SSD adaptor) Why didn't I know this six months ago? 🤦♂️
The ninja batt. does not perfectly fit the original A1398 99.5w battery of the MacBook Pro 15”. It has slightly different measures.
Never knew, TM-Backups are bootable 😱
Sometimes it doesn't work and I'm not 100% sure why. Usually I do a clean install then restore anyway, as you can clean-install a newer version of macOS while you're at it. But for this one I deliberately wasn't updating macOS, so booting from the TM was easier.
What brand tweezer do you use?? The one I found like yours melts as soon as it hits any component over 350c.
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The old "professional jiggle" always does the trick! 👍
gday champ. just wondering on if it's possible to fix SSD drives that slow up due to apparant wear. trim is enabled. is it worth trying Samsung magician software? any other method like low level formatting software on PC for such a case?
the reason apple made their own ssd design is because it was first introduced with the 2010 macbook air which predated m.2. With the retina generation they would have been in development since 2011 which also predates the standard
Euuurgh yea that's true. I forget that M.2 didn't hit PCs until like, 2014. Fair point!
@@Adamant_IT Another gotcha is that the original SSDs are AHCI PCI devices, not NVMe, because these designs also pre-date NVMe. Some MBs (2013 Air?) need a firmware update (bundled with newer MacOS versions) to boot from NVMe, and even then, IIRC, they have problems with suspend to RAM not working.
Pretty sure that you will find that only 2018 and later Macbooks EFI (BIOS) chips are 1.8v. Prior to 2018 they are 3.3v
Yea, I was very surprised when I thought this one was 1.8v. I'm guessing that the datasheet I found on a google search was for some other variation of the chip.
Great video, many thanks Graham. Do you know if the adapter works on newer models? I've got a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) I want to upgrade
A couple of the modern non-touchbar macbooks have removable SSDs, and there are adaptors for those. But all TouchBar models are soldered NVMe chips.
How can i get schematics 85W mag safe power adepter 2 i want 2 componets details only its fired i dont no its details
I think its 2 components are C052 and R051 , its located near to out put line Schematic other wise its 2 components details
Hey man can you please help me .....I was replacing my CPU fan for acer nitro 7 and after everything was done I tightened the last screw and the interchangeable tip of screwdriver fell on the motherboard and some sparks hit off of it.....and now my laptop wont turn onn ....any thing to make it work ? Plz help me 🥲
Hi, I replaced my SSD in my MacBook using a similar adaptor. Now I’ve a 500gb mac SSD I can’t find a use for , or more critically can’t find an enclosure to enable me to use is as a portable HD….. any links anyone ?
How do I create bootable USB for Mac OS
With regards to the M.2 drive adapter, what are the restrictions on length?
It conveniently fits a standard 80mm SSD perfectly.
why do you need to do this unlock?
Always take multiple dumps of the BIOS. I always take 3 or 4 now. I've see where the program verifies OK but running a comparison with a hex editor I sometimes get a mismatch. Don't trust your (budget Chinese) tools.
Do you need to put the time machine back to low priority task? Or just leave it as high priority.
Technically yes, but in practise I actually prefer to leave it as Normal priority (which is what it gets set to) because modern macs don't get bogged down by heavy transfers like they used to. It was especially an issue for macs with HDDs, because it's so easy to peg a HDD to 100% utilisation.
@@Adamant_IT Ah okay. That’s good to know. I just made a tm backup for my friends computer, and i was wondering why it was so slow although it was an Air that has an SSD :D
interesting video , why let you programmer not auto detect the ic every time. From those ssd adapters i didn't know abouth it do you have that for all macbook ssd?
Auto-detect doesn't always get exactly the right chip, it was actually slightly out in this video, but also as this video shows, that doesn't seem to matter most of the time. It's not hard to manual-select though, so I do that most of the time.
And yes, you can get adaptors for all (removable) MacBook SSDs. Make sure you get the right one for the year though, as there are differences.
@@Adamant_IT ok thank you for the respond. I ask abouth auto detect if the ic is detected then you know the connection and the ic is good. It is true they sometimes detect the wrong ic but doesn't matter much if he still got the wright size even if you do another type of ic or another brand he will still program the ic fine normaly.
Can you bypass a locked school account on a Chromebook by removing and reprogramming the BIOS chip?
I'm not sure if you can place a firmware password on a chromebook or not - only times I've had to deal with one, a factory reset was good enough.
he is dam awesome ;) god in fixen computers
I have an early 2013 MBP with a SATA SSD. Do you know if that adapter trick will work for my MBP? Would I need to use a SATA M.2 SSD or is there some compatibility with PCIe /NVME M.2 SSDs?
I'd just use a SATA SSD, such as the Crucial MX500. There's no perceivable difference in performance when using the laptop, and there's nothing you can connect to a pre-retina macbook that'll go faster than 500MBps anyway.
@@Adamant_IT The MX500 is a standard 2.5" SATA drive. My MBP takes the Apple propriety "M.2" SSD but the interface appears to be SATA rather than PCIe or NVME.
Ooooh I see, yea I get you now. I'm not sure if adaptors exist for this. Theoretically it should be possible, but I haven't looked for or tested them.
Thanks Graham. You did not upgrade Macos?
Not on this one, client has a few old 32bit apps that won't run on Catalina+, it's easier for them to stay on an older system than buy new office, new creative suite, etc.
@@Adamant_IT Ok. Could be interesting to see how you upgrade Macos, generally it is difficult. Plus how you change the battery. I look forward to the next video.👍👍
Just to shoot it in there, have you heard about ASUS MBs (with Z490 Chipsets) dying when using USB BIOS-Flashback feature to get 11th gen support? It happened to me, and have the impression from forums that this has happened to many others aswell. I have a BIOS programmer and have successfully re-flashed the BIOS, but the board is straight up dead(Only showing standby power in the RGB). I figure some sub-system must be failing during the USB BIOS-Flashback.
It's hard to say if something is a known issue, because so many people who have a specific fault are doing something wrong... I've had a GB mobo brick itself from BIOS flashback, so I can believe that it does happen.
@@Adamant_IT Where would you start looking, if you were to troubleshoot something like this? I seriously doubt that any physical or electrical damage has been done to the board, and i find it extremely strange that nothing happens when shorting the power button pins. JayzTwoCents has a vid about it if you would like to check it out.
ruclips.net/video/J1v_AuUlyVg/видео.html
The BIOS chip needs to be reprogrammed, which requires a SPI Flash programmer and, depending on your approach, some soldering. Check out LFC#279 to see how I do this.
@@Adamant_IT Thanks! I spent an all-nighter digging. I found out that the Bios and Intel ME are on seperate chips on my MB, and the Intel ME firmware was corrupt. However a real pain to recover, and im yet to figure it out.
Nice bed head, another reason why I prefer short hair. 👍On the video.
FF is 255 not 0
Better to give it 1.8v and have to rethink than give it 3.3V or 5V and just kill it.
3v3 is sus.
That is not an SSD, that is an M.2 ...
...which is a type of connector that modern SSDs use.
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Apple make a product that does NOT need an adaptor/dongle to make some standard product work? When did that start?
Of course they make it so you "have" to purchase any product that works in an Apple branded machine, from them only. How dare you use any standard part that everyone else uses.
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