This week we have got a Macbook for a Repair that came with a Dim Screen. As a result of the customer spilling a coffee on it over 2 years ago. Usually, we highly advise any liquid damaged electronics to be repaired within 24hours of the spillage. As explained in ours What to do when you spill liquid on your Macbook Section – Longer liquid residue stays harder and less successful the Macbook Liquid Damage Repair becomes.
This Macbook will turn on with responding Caps Lock as usual when pressed. On the other hand, the screen also tries to turn on, with a missing backlight and very dim picture.
Macbook Dim Screen Diagnostic Process
To be able to repair this Macbook Successfully, firstly we need to strip it down to its bits. Then we can run an eye on the board under a microscope in aim to identify any corroded components.
It is lucid, that there was liquid damage to the board, which left behind an oxidating residue. Even Outside of the casing, Macbook still will not produce backing over the picture.
Macbook Dim Screen Fault Finding and Repairing Process
To Understand the repair process of this Dim Screen Macbook Repair. We need to understand the fault tinding process firs. WIth all liquid or electronic damaged Macbooks we need to go through a visual inspection and check for a short circuits spanning across the board.
As there were none in this case, we decided to go inc by inch under a microscope and check each afected area.
However, there is none in this case, we check the board inch by inch under a microscope for oxidation and corrded areas.
Following a successful clean of the logic board and replacing a voltage regulator, which was responsible of stabvilising one of th evoltage rails resposible for the backlight voltage, We can confirm that the backlight start functioning as excpected.
Successful Macbook Dim Screen Repair Process
Once it tested fine unxer a miocroscope, we assembled the Macbook and ensure it is stable and reliable to serve anoth 3-5 years to its owner.
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Repaired, not Replaced!
We are committed to reducing e-waste in Australia. How we do it is by educating our customers on the reparability and longevity of their devices, as well as providing affordable Macbook Repairs here in Adelaide.
Although our best intentions and hard work, this is not an easy task. Customers must accept that cost of high-quality electronic repairs, is between a third and half of the price of a new device. However, with the current trend of planned obsolescence in electronic design, we see more and more Macbooks having shorter lifespans. To tackle that, while we do our repairs we target common planned obsolescence engineering design mistakes to ensure we extend the life expectancy of the Macbooks we repair. Check some of our Macbook Repair Cases to get an idea of the process.
That said, if we buy a new one or write it off via insurance, it does not guarantee that the new one will not meet the same fate as the older one pretty soon.
As matter of fact, quite often we see accidents reoccurring within less than 2-year gaps. If we can save 2000$ or even 1000$ today by repairing our faulty Macbook is brilliant. That’s an extra half Macbook cost ready to be spent on another one when the time comes or our need for performance increases.
When that time comes is up to us to buy a new one or keep pushing the one we have, but delaying it by a year or three is always a good starting point and saves another abandoned Macbook from polluting our one and only Planet.